Amy Klobuchar
Democrat · MN · U.S. Senate
Bio
Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota. She is running for governor of Minnesota in the 2026 election.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- First took office
- 2007 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 24 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Senate Democratic Steering Committee Chair · 2019–present
- Minneapolis, MN · 612-727-5220
- Moorhead, MN · 218-287-2219
- Rochester, MN · 507-288-5321
- Virginia, MN · 218-741-9690
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 – $4.3M
- Liabilities
- $465k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- $721k – $3.8M
- Since 2018
- +$923k
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
Amy Klobuchar'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
Amy Klobuchar (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Klobucharsits 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.
Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade (Ex Officio)Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology (Ex Officio)Rural Development, Energy, and Credit (Ex Officio)Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research (Ex Officio)Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Klobuchar'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
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The New Republic · August 19, 2026
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The New Republic · August 12, 2026
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