Joseph D. Morelle

Democrat · NY-25 · U.S. House

Bio

Joseph D. Morelle is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 25th congressional district since 2018. A Democrat, he was formerly a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 136th Assembly district, which includes eastern portions of the City of Rochester and the Monroe County suburbs of Irondequoit and Brighton. Speaker Sheldon Silver appointed him as majority leader of the New York State Assembly in January 2013 and Morelle served as acting speaker in the Speaker's absence. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives for New York's 25th congressional district in November 2018 following the death of longtime Representative Louise Slaughter.

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Record of service

In office: 7.8 years
First took office: 2018 (5 terms)
Seniority: 190 of 437 by time served
Age: 69

District offices

Rochester, NY · 585-232-4850

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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

2019

$129k

2020

$164k

2021

$239k

2022

$265k

2023

$314k

2024

$545k

2025

$619k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $439k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: $189k – $1.0M
Since 2019: +$491k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 24 assets reported

American Funds - New Perspective Fund-F1 (NPFFX), 100% Interest, 100% Interest$250k – $500k

New York State & Local Retirement System$50k – $100k

New York State Teachers' Retirement System$50k – $100k

Fidelity MMKT Premium Class$15k – $50k

Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF$15k – $50k

M&T Bank$15k – $50k

Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund ETF$15k – $50k

Vanguard Value ETF (VTV)$15k – $50k

American Express National Bank$1k – $15k

MetLife Universal Life$1k – $15k

Prudential Insurance Universal Life$1k – $15k

Putnam Growth Opportunities Fund Class A$1k – $15k

Putnam Sustainable Leaders Fund Class A$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Portfolio $1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ FPA Funds Trust, FPA Crescent Portfolio Institution$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ FPA New Income Institutional Class (FPNIX)$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ PIMCO Dynamic Bond Fund Class INSTL (PFIUX)$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund (PRWCX)$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ The Income Fund of America, Class F-1 Shares (IFAFX$1k – $15k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ Vanguard Wellington Fund Admiral Shares (VWENX)$1k – $15k

Vaymont Ventures LLC, 25% Interest$1k – $3k

Putnam Equity Income Fund Class A (PEYAX)$1 – $1k

IRA Beneficiary Distribution Account ⇒ Fidelity MMKT Premium Class$1 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.34

Healthcare

D+0.94

Immigration & Border

D+0.48

Guns

D+0.88

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.13

Defense & Veterans

D+0.18

Economy & Labor

D+0.44

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.11

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.64

Government & Democracy

D+0.71

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

Joseph D. Morelle's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

84%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

81%

Communist Party USA

81%

Libertarian Party

55%

Republican Party

36%

On the political map

Joseph D. Morelle (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 Morellesits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Defense
House Committee on House AdministrationRanking Memberright · 12 members
Modernization and Innovation
Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
Joint Committee on Printingcenter · 10 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Morelle'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.