
Jared Huffman
Democrat · CA-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Jared William Huffman is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Huffman represented the 6th district in the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2012. He chaired the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee and the Assembly Environmental Caucus. He was elected to Congress in 2012 with more than 70% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Dan Roberts. His congressional district covers the North Coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 99 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Eureka, CA · 707-407-3585
- Fort Bragg, CA · 707-962-0933
- Petaluma, CA · 707-981-8967
- San Rafael, CA · 415-258-9657
- Ukiah, CA · 707-671-7449
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $885k – $2.4M
- Liabilities
- $350k – $750k
- Net worth
- $135k – $2.1M
- Since 2019
- +$654k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 46 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Jared Huffman's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Jared Huffman (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Huffmansits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Huffman's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump Sneaks Project 2025 Stooge Into Crucial Investigative OfficeIf President Trump’s disastrous renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool gets investigated, a Project 2025 operative will be overseeing it. Trump nominated Dennis Kirk, an author of the conservative manifesto and former adviser to Tulsi Gabbard, as …
The New Republic · August 11, 2026
A Democrat Sounds the Alarm On Christian Nationalism“Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, thought he was going to make himself a political pariah when he announced publicly that he did not believe in God,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Huffman, the only self-declared ‘humanist’ in Congress,…
Politicalwire.com · August 9, 2026
'Relentless in Its War on Offshore Wind,' Trump Admin Kills More ProjectsDespite climate concerns and high prices from President Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran, his administration continued its assault on offshore wind this week, using another "taxpayer-funded bribe" to convince a company to instead invest in fossil fuels.The …
Common Dreams · August 7, 2026- Congressional Reason!
After reporting problems created by — as well as victories against — Christian Nationalism, we hear the co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus Representative Jared Huffman (CA) and Representative Jamie Raskin (MD) speaking at the Third Annual Congr…
Libsyn.com · August 6, 2026
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