William R. Keating

Democrat · MA-9 · U.S. House

Bio

William Richard Keating is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 2011, representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district until redistricting. Keating's district includes Cape Cod and most of the South Coast. He raised his profile advocating for criminal justice issues in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court from 1977 to 1999 before becoming district attorney of Norfolk County, where he served three terms before being elected to Congress.

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Record of service

In office: 15.6 years
First took office: 2011 (8 terms)
Seniority: 85 of 437 by time served
Age: 73

District offices

New Bedford, MA · 508-999-6462
Plymouth, MA · 508-746-9000
Hyannis, MA · 508-771-6868

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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

2019

$2.5M

2020

$2.4M

2021

$3.1M

2022

$18.1M

2023

$18.2M

2024

$3.1M

2025

$3.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.7M – $5.1M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $1.7M – $5.1M
Since 2019: +$945k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 104 assets reported

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Fidelity Contra Fund (FCNTX)$100k – $250k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fd Admiral Shs (V$100k – $250k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB)$100k – $250k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio - Institutional (B$100k – $250k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)$100k – $250k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio - In$50k – $100k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF (ISCG)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares S&P 500 Value ETF (IVE)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Equity Income Fund Admiral Shares (VEIRX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Baird Aggregate Bond Fund Institutional Class (BAGIX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor International Small Cap Fund - Class Z (FIQIX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Fidelity Cash Reserves (FDRXX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Growth Fund Institutional Shares (F$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Mercer Non-US Core Equity Fund Class I (MNCSX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ The Hartford Strategic Income Fund Class F (HSNFX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund Institutional C$50k – $100k

Vanguard Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Balanced Index Fd Admiral Shs (VBIAX)$50k – $100k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Ecofin Global Renewables Infrastructure Fund - Institut$15k – $50k

JT None None Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Fidelity Advisor International Small Cap F$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Fidelity Cash Reserves (FDRXX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ GOEHRING & ROZENCWAJG RESOURCES FUND INSTITUTIONAL CL ($15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Goldman Sachs High Yield Municipal Fd Inst Cl (GHYIX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Mercer Non-US Core Equity Fund Class I (MNCSX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Neuberger Berman Long Short Fd Instl Cl (NLSIX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund - I Class (RPTIX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund I$15k – $50k

Focus Partners Brokerage Account ⇒ VanEck High Yield Muni ETF (HYD)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Abbvie Inc Note MAT 3/15/34$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Alphabet Inc. - Class A Common Stock (GOOGL)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Bank America Corp SER N Mtn MAT 11/10/28$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Coca Cola Co Note MAT 5/13/34$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ Ecofin Global Renewables Infrastructure Fund - Institutional Class (E$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ General MTRS Co Note MAT 10/15/32$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ GOEHRING & ROZENCWAJG RESOURCES FUND INSTITUTIONAL CL (GRHIX)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock (JPM)$15k – $50k

Focus Partners IRA ⇒ JPMorgan Chase & Co Note MAT 7/24/29$15k – $50k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.45

Healthcare

D+0.69

Immigration & Border

D+0.53

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.90

Crime & Policing

D+0.21

Defense & Veterans

D+0.05

Economy & Labor

D+0.51

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.21

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.75

Government & Democracy

D+0.80

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

William R. Keating's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

85%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

82%

Communist Party USA

81%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

34%

On the political map

William R. Keating (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Keatingsits 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

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Intelligence and Special Operations Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Europe (Ranking Member)Middle East and North Africa

Most and least aligned members

Treating Keating'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.