Timothy M. Kennedy
Democrat · NY-26 · U.S. House
Bio
Timothy Martin Kennedy is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for New York's 26th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in the April 2024 special election to finish the remainder of Brian Higgins' term in the 118th United States Congress. Prior to his congressional tenure, Kennedy served in the New York State Senate from 2011 to 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 2.3 years
- First took office
- 2024 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 363 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 49
- Buffalo, NY · 716-852-3501
- Niagara Falls, NY · 716-282-1274
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
- $254k – $560k
- Liabilities
- $130k – $350k
- Net worth
- −$96k – $430k
- Since 2024
- +$200k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 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
Timothy M. 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
Timothy M. Kennedy (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 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.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 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
Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle HouseA Trump administration official continues to insist that he once teleported to a Waffle House despite being mocked. As CNN reported in late March, Phillips has spoken on multiple podcasts about his teleportation activities, which include having gone to a chur…
The New Republic · April 1, 2026
Noem confronts Democrats over NYC crime, asylum abuses as members hurl accusationsRep. Tim Kennedy confronted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over $134 million in Urban Area Security Initiative funding cuts for New York City during a heated hearing.
Fox News · December 11, 2025
US accountancy body supports tax fairness for disaster victims actThe American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has expressed strong support for the Tax Fairness for Disaster Victims Act, introduced by Representative Timothy Kennedy. Known as HR 3975, the legislation aims to provide permanent relief for individuals affected by fed…
Biztoc.com · July 29, 2025- The President meets with U.S. Members of Congress
President Gitanas Nausėda met on Friday with U.S. Congressmen Keith Self, Timothy Kennedy and Derek Tran.
Globalsecurity.org · April 19, 2025
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