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Kristen McDonald Rivet

Democrat · MI-8 · U.S. House

Bio

Kristen Lee McDonald Rivet is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Michigan Senate for the 35th district, where she was the assistant majority floor leader from 2023 to 2025. Her district, located in Central Michigan, includes Flint and the Tri-Cities metropolitan area of Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City.

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Record of service

In office
1.6 years
First took office
2025 (1 terms)
Seniority
393 of 437 by time served
Age
56
District offices
  • Flint, MI · 810-238-8627
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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

2024
$1.5M
2025
$1.8M
Most recent filing (2025)
Assets
$1.2M – $2.8M
Liabilities
$100k – $250k
Net worth
$936k – $2.7M
Since 2024
+$301k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 assets reported
T Rowe Price Retirement Fund 2040$500k – $1.0M
Fidelity Global Fund Series T5 FE (FNDNX)$100k – $250k
Newport Vanguard Retirement ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund (VTHRX)$100k – $250k
Capital Income Builder Cl A Shs (CAIBX)$50k – $100k
Franklin Managed Trust Rising Dividends Fund Cl A (FRDPX)$50k – $100k
Northwestern Mutual Annuity$50k – $100k
Templeton Global Bond Fund Class A (TPINX)$50k – $100k
Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$50k – $100k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ Dodge & Cox Stock Fund - Class I (DODGX)$50k – $100k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ PGIM Jennison Growth Fund Class A (PJFAX)$50k – $100k
Franklin Income Fund Class A1 (FKINX)$15k – $50k
Mutual Global Discovery Fund Class A (TEDIX)$15k – $50k
United Bay Community Credit Union Account$15k – $50k
Northwestern Mutual IRA ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class A Shares (ANCFX)$15k – $50k
Schwab Simple IRA ⇒ Cash$15k – $50k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ American Funds EuroPacific Growth A (AEPGX)$15k – $50k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ State Street Small/Mid Cap Equity Index Portfolio (SSMHX)$15k – $50k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Value Fund, Inc. (TRMCX)$15k – $50k
Northwestern Mutual IRA ⇒ American Funds High-Income Trust A (AHITX)$1k – $15k
Northwestern Mutual IRA ⇒ American Funds Investment Co of America A (AIVSX)$1k – $15k
Northwestern Mutual IRA ⇒ The Income Fund of America, Class A Shares (AMECX)$1k – $15k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ American Funds EuroPacific Growth A (AEPGX)$1k – $15k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ Dodge & Cox Stock Fund - Class I (DODGX)$1k – $15k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ SSGA S&P 500 Index Fd (SVSPX)$1k – $15k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ State Street Aggregate Bond Index Fund Class K (SSFEX)$1k – $15k
Voya Retirement Fund ⇒ State Street Small/Mid Cap Equity Index Portfolio (SSMHX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ American Funds EuroPacific Growth Cl F-1 Shs (AEGFX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ BlackRock Eq Dividend R (MRDVX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor New Insights Fund - Class M (FNITX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ Invesco Developing Markets Fund Class R (ODVNX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ Invesco Real Estate Fund Class R Shares (IARRX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc.MidCap Fd Cl R-1 (PMSBX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ Templeton Global Bond Fund Class A (TPINX)$1k – $15k
Voya Select Advantage IRA ⇒ VY JPMorgan Small Cap Core Equity Portfolio Adviser (IJSAX)$1k – $15k

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

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.57
Healthcare
D+0.84
Immigration & Border
R+0.18
Guns
D+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+1.00
Environment & Energy
D+0.64
Crime & Policing
R+0.27
Defense & Veterans
D+0.59
Economy & Labor
D+0.43
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.45
Civil Rights & Social
D+1.00
Education
D+0.82
Government & Democracy
D+0.33
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+0.33

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

Kristen McDonald Rivet's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party
86%
Green Party
81%
Democratic Socialists (DSA)
78%
Communist Party USA
77%
Libertarian Party
58%
Republican Party
39%

On the political map

Kristen McDonald Rivet (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightRivet
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 Rivetsits 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

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Rivet'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.

Most aligned

Maggie Goodlander
D · NH-2 · House
+97%
Derek Tran
D · CA-45 · House
+96%
April McClain Delaney
D · MD-6 · House
+96%
Dave Min
D · CA-47 · House
+95%
George Whitesides
D · CA-27 · House
+94%

Least aligned

Mitch McConnell
R · KY · Senate
−87%
Steve Daines
R · MT · Senate
−86%
James Lankford
R · OK · Senate
−85%
Ted Cruz
R · TX · Senate
−84%
Mike Crapo
R · ID · Senate
−84%

Recent notable votes

YEA
Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025
2026-06-25 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Crime & Policing
YEA
Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025
2026-06-25 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Crime & Policing
YEA
Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025
2026-06-25 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Crime & Policing
YEA
Small Business Technological Advancement Act
2026-06-24 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Small Business Technological Advancement Act
2026-06-24 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Small Business Technological Advancement Act
2026-06-24 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
2026-06-23 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
2026-06-23 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
2026-06-23 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
2026-06-23 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8646) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7726) to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to withhold funds from noncompliant States under such Act; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7892) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require to the Secretary of Education to use an identity fraud detection system to review each FAFSA to determine whether the FAFSA presents a reasonable suspicion of identity fraud; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8872) to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to target funds to low-income families, strengthen program integrity guardrails for State expenditure of funds, require measurement of improper payments, and establish goals for eliminating fraud and improper payments under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, and for other purposes.
2026-06-03 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Education, Government & Democracy
YEA
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026
2026-06-03 · Passed · Environment & Energy

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