Doris O. Matsui
Democrat · CA-7 · U.S. House
Bio
Doris Okada Matsui is an American politician, who has served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 7th congressional district since 2005. She succeeded her husband, Bob Matsui. The district, numbered as the 5th from 2005 to 2013 and the 6th from 2013 to 2023, is based in Sacramento.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.4 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 53 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 81
- wife of Robert Matsui
- Sacramento, CA · 916-498-5600
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
- $1.5M – $3.1M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.5M – $3.1M
Largest holdings in the 2019 filing · 14 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
Doris O. Matsui'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
Doris O. Matsui (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Matsuisits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Matsui'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
'Voters Are Seeing Through the Bullshit': Progressives Take Down Corporate Dems NationwideProgressive candidates have swept to victory against establishment opponents in Democratic primary races across the US, including on Tuesday, as voters turn out in support of working-class champions who have spurned corporate money and vowed to pursue transfo…
Common Dreams · June 10, 2026- Doris Matsui faces generational challenge in November - Politico
Doris Matsui faces generational challenge in NovemberPolitico Doris Matsui Will Face Democratic Challenger in Intraparty Generational FightThe New York Times Sacramento Councilmember Mai Vang leads Sacramento primary, heading to NovemberSacramento Bee Mai Van…
Slashdot.org · June 10, 2026 
A Campaign For Generational Change Comes To This Democratic District In CaliforniaIncumbent Rep. Doris Matsui, 81, will face progressive Democrat Mai Vang, 41, as a result of California's June 2 primaries.
HuffPost · June 9, 2026
Golden State Democrats’ Next Challenge: Fix CaliforniaIt’s a quiet Tuesday morning in Sacramento. On any given weekday this past year, the City of Trees is normally bustling with state workers heading to their offices, construction workers hammering away at the new Capitol Annex, or City Parking Enforcement Offi…
The New Republic · June 9, 2026
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