Andy Kim
Democrat · NJ · U.S. Senate
Bio
Andrew Kim is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2024. A progressive Democrat, Kim served from 2019 to 2024 as the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- Chambers
- House 5.9y, Senate 1.7y
- First took office
- 2019 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 79 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 44
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Barrington, NJ · 856-757-5353
- Jersey City, NJ · 201-377-0900
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
- $428k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$572k – $970k
- Since 2019
- −$236k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 42 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
Andy Kim'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
Andy Kim (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 Kimsits 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 Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kim'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 Admin Permanently Guts Law 'Designed to Stop Criminals from Laundering Money' After Push From Elon MuskCritics are warning that the Trump administration just made financial crimes a lot easier to commit by permanently gutting a law that prevented criminals from using shell companies to obscure their activities. Elon Musk may benefit.On Tuesday, the Treasury's …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
Watch: Democratic Senator Proposes a Fix for American Healthcare — Covering All KidsSen. Andy Kim of New Jersey wants to offer universal healthcare until age 26. He sat down with KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to answer the question: “How Would You Fix It?”
Kffhealthnews.org · August 6, 2026
Can Dems Exploit the Tension Between Trump and Republican Senators?Editor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist: Our focus will be strictly on Democrats, liberal and progressive groups, and the fight to take back power and save …
The New Republic · July 31, 2026
Senators Demand Apple Commit to Not Buying Chinese Memory ChipsU.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has teamed up with several of his Senate colleagues to demand Apple commit to not purchasing chips from Chinese companies ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) or Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC). [PDF] With memory shortage…
MacRumors · July 30, 2026
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