Gwen Moore

Democrat · WI-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Gwendolynne Sophia Moore is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 4th congressional district since 2005. In 2016, Moore was elected to serve as caucus whip of the Congressional Black Caucus for the 115th United States Congress. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Her district is based in Milwaukee and as a result of the 2011 redistricting also includes some Milwaukee County suburbs: Bayside, Brown Deer, Cudahy, Fox Point, Glendale, St. Francis, South Milwaukee, West Milwaukee, Shorewood, and Whitefish Bay. Moore is the first woman to represent the district and the second woman after Tammy Baldwin and the first African American elected to Congress from Wisconsin.

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Record of service

In office: 21.6 years
First took office: 2005 (11 terms)
Seniority: 51 of 437 by time served
Age: 75

District offices

Milwaukee, WI · 414-297-1140

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.61

Healthcare

D+0.77

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.85

Crime & Policing

D+0.64

Defense & Veterans

D+0.28

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.29

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.89

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.85

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

Gwen Moore'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

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

86%

Communist Party USA

86%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

29%

On the political map

Gwen Moore (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 Mooresits 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 Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Work and Welfare Tax Social Security
Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Moore'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.