
Morgan McGarvey
Democrat · KY-3 · U.S. House
Bio
John Morgan McGarvey is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district since 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 318 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 46
- Louisville, KY · 502-582-5129
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
- $719k – $2.4M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $469k – $2.3M
- Since 2021
- +$55k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 65 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
Morgan McGarvey'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
Morgan McGarvey (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 McGarveysits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 24 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating McGarvey'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
- Kentucky's lone Democratic congressman won't attend Trump's State of the Union
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday. He is expected to highlight domestic and foreign policy issues, like immigration crackdowns, widespread tariffs, military actions and more. Usually in attendance …
Freerepublic.com · February 25, 2026
McGarvey calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be impeachedKentucky Congressman Morgan McGarvey is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
WLKY Louisville · January 16, 2026
Democratic Representative Says He’s Returning His AIPAC DonationsIn the latest indication that ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are becoming a political liability in Democratic politics, Senate candidate and Democratic Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts publicly parted ways with the lobbying g…
The New Republic · October 16, 2025
Medicaid cuts could threaten senior health program, says McGarveyRep. Morgan McGarvey visited the Senior Community Care of Kentucky to learn about how Medicaid and SNAP cuts will impact participants.
WLKY Louisville · August 16, 2025
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