
Chrissy Houlahan
Democrat · PA-6 · U.S. House
Bio
Christina Marie Houlahan is an American politician, engineer, and former United States Air Force officer. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served as the U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district since 2019. The district includes almost all of Chester County, a suburban county west of Philadelphia, as well as the southern portion of Berks County including the city of Reading. She was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican Greg McCauley in the midterms.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 220 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 59
- West Chester, PA · 610-883-5050
- Reading, PA · 610-295-0815
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
- $1.8M – $4.0M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- $275k – $3.2M
- Since 2019
- −$22k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 23 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
Chrissy Houlahan'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
Chrissy Houlahan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Houlahansits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Houlahan'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
- CNN Asks Dem Rep and Daughter of Holocaust Survivor If She Backs Platner ('Personal Foibles' Alert!)
A glance at her bio shows that Dem Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. CNN: "You are the daughter of Holocaust survivors... do you support him as a candidate?" HOULAHAN: " I don’t make that choice fo…
Freerepublic.com · June 11, 2026 - Totally Badass
MemoriesThe reason they made their announcement and explained their reasoning as a group, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, is because they had already formed a bond over their national security background – especially the five women: Elissa Slotkin of Mich…
Eschatonblog.com · May 31, 2026
Trump official stands by cannibalism claims during hearing with CongressActing Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao reaffirmed controversial remarks he made during an October 2024 Senate debate when questioned by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan during a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday. Houlahan cited Cao's statement, "What we nee…
Raw Story · May 15, 2026
Trump official refuses to back down on cannibalism remarks when cornered in CongressA Trump administration official doubled down on a "head-turning claim" he previously made during a congressional hearing on Thursday, The Daily Beast reported.Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao was testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on th…
Raw Story · May 14, 2026
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