John Kennedy
Republican · LA · U.S. Senate
Bio
John Neely Kennedy is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017, as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue from 1996 to 1999, and as special counsel and then cabinet member to Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 66 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- Alexandria, LA · 318-445-2892
- Baton Rouge, LA · 225-926-8033
- Houma, LA · 985-851-0956
- Mandeville, LA · 985-809-8153
- Monroe, LA · 318-361-1489
- New Orleans, LA · 504-581-6190
- Shreveport, LA · 318-670-5192
- Lafayette, LA · 337-269-5980
- Lake Charles, LA · 337-573-6800
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
- $10.7M – $26.6M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $10.4M – $26.5M
- Since 2016
- +$7.6M
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
John Kennedy'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
John Kennedy (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Kennedysits 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
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kennedy'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
Senate Republicans rebuke Trump's attempt to undermine GOP leaderPresident Donald Trump's attempt to undermine Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) by refusing to endorse him for another leadership term backfired.The Hill reported GOP senators publicly united behind Thune, despite Trump's lack of support. Sen. Jerry Mo…
Raw Story · August 11, 2026
Trump's Thune feud backfires as Republicans flock to Senate leader's sidePresident Donald Trump's attempt to undercut the authority of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) appears to have had the opposite effect.In a recent interview with Punchbowl News, the president took great pains not to endorse Thune for another term in h…
Raw Story · August 11, 2026
This own goal risks tearing apart the best chance at defeating MAGAThe Third Way has functionally declared its intention to purge the Democratic Party of progressives. They will not, in my opinion, get us the things progressives are working for and most Americans and the large majority of Democrats want:— A national healthca…
Raw Story · August 10, 2026
Republican Senator John Kennedy Warns FCC Official Of Agency’s Scrutiny Of Network Content: “You’re Getting Into The Foothills Of Violating The First Amendment”The FCC’s general counsel Adam Candeub faced pointed questions as the agency has delved into network content, with one Republican senator, John Kennedy, warning him that the agency was “getting into the foothills of violating the First Amendment.” Candeub was…
Deadline · August 5, 2026
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