LaMonica McIver
Democrat · NJ-10 · U.S. House
Bio
LaMonica R. McIver is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she served on the Newark municipal council from 2018 to 2024. McIver was first elected to Congress in a September 2024 special election to succeed Donald Payne Jr. in Congress, who died in office in April.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.9 years
- First took office
- 2024 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 366 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 40
- Newark, NJ · 973-645-3213
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
- $481k – $1.2M
- Liabilities
- $210k – $515k
- Net worth
- −$34k – $1.0M
- Since 2024
- +$196k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 9 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
LaMonica McIver'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
LaMonica McIver (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.
Do you vote like McIver?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where McIversits 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 Homeland Securitycenter · 31 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating McIver'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
Canadian woman detained by ICE after slapping a MAGA teenA Canadian woman was arrested after a physical altercation over the Fourth of July weekend. Kaitlyn Tracey, 33, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after confronting young Trump supporters at Point Pleasant, New Jersey, according to The New Yo…
Raw Story · July 16, 2026
Canadian slaps MAGA teen on the Jersey Shore — and gets arrested by Trump's ICE: reportA Canadian woman got into a physical altercation with a young Trump supporter on the Jersey Shore — and the incident ended with her under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.According to the New York Post, police have confirmed 33-year-old Kaitlyn T…
Raw Story · July 15, 2026
Trump Puts Pregnant Dem Congresswoman on Trial for ICE OversightU.S. Representative LaMonica McIver could face up to 17 years in prison if the Justice Department gets its way.McIver, 40, was charged with assaulting immigration agents outside the notorious Delaney Hall immigration detention center in New Jersey last May. O…
The New Republic · June 24, 2026
Pregnant congresswoman facing 17 years for jail confrontation gets her day in courtCourtroom No. 2B in the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, will take center stage Wednesday, with attorneys for Rep. LaMonica McIver scheduled to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel there in a bid to get her federal…
Raw Story · June 24, 2026
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