Ben Ray Luján
Democrat · NM · U.S. Senate
Bio
Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving since 2021 as the junior United States senator from New Mexico. From 2009 to 2021, he represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives; he served as assistant speaker from 2019 to 2021. Luján is a self-described progressive Democrat.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.6 years
- Chambers
- House 12y, Senate 5.6y
- First took office
- 2009 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 37 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 54
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Assistant Speaker of the House · 2019–2021
- Las Vegas, NM · 505-454-3038
- Albuquerque, NM · 505-337-7023
- Santa Fe, NM · 505-230-7040
- Las Cruces, NM · 575-288-4644
- Portales, NM · 575-252-6188
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
- $104k – $310k
- Liabilities
- $10k – $15k
- Net worth
- $89k – $300k
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
Ben Ray Luján'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
Ben Ray Luján (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Lujánsits 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
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Committees
- United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Controlcenter · 7 members
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Luján'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
Democratic Absences Mean Trump Lawyer Is Now a Judge for LifeOne of President Trump’s personal lawyers now has a federal judgeship for life, and it’s thanks to multiple Senate Democrats being absent.Justin Smith, 41, was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday in a 48–43 vote, with every Democrat voting against his nomination,…
The New Republic · June 16, 2026
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The New Republic · June 3, 2026
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Slashdot.org · April 27, 2026
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Slashdot.org · March 23, 2026
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