Jerrold Nadler

Democrat · NY-12 · U.S. House

Bio

Jerrold Lewis Nadler is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. A resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side and a member of the Democratic Party, he has served as a U.S. representative since 1992. From 1992 until 2022, Nadler's district covered the west side of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, being numbered the 17th district, then the 8th district, and then the 10th district starting in 2013. Since 2023, he has represented the 12th district, which covers both the west and east sides of Manhattan from 14th Street to 100th Street. Before his election to Congress, he served eight terms as a New York state assemblyman. Nadler is the dean of New York's U.S. House delegation and is known for his liberal record and close local ties.

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Record of service

In office: 33.7 years
First took office: 1992 (18 terms)
Seniority: 11 of 437 by time served
Age: 79

District offices

New York, NY · 212-367-7350

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.58

Healthcare

D+0.73

Immigration & Border

D+0.90

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.56

Defense & Veterans

D+0.36

Economy & Labor

D+0.63

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.27

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.93

Education

D+0.66

Government & Democracy

D+0.81

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

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

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

87%

Communist Party USA

86%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Jerrold Nadler (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

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Caucuses & committees

Where Nadlersits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Nadler'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.