Richard E. Neal
Democrat · MA-1 · U.S. House
Bio
Richard Edmund Neal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since 1989. The district, numbered as the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Chicopee, and Westfield. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has been the dean of Massachusetts's delegation to the United States House of Representatives since 2013, and is dean of the New England House delegations.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 37.6 years
- First took office
- 1989 (19 terms)
- Seniority
- 7 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 77
- Pittsfield, MA · 413-442-0946
- Springfield, MA · 413-785-0325
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
- $201k – $517k
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$799k – $17k
- Since 2019
- −$989k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 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
Richard E. Neal'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
Richard E. Neal (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 Nealsits 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.
Committees
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Neal'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
- Lefty Dem tipped as next House-incumbent slayer has rap sheet with drunken ER fight, car crash (Massachusetts)
WASHINGTON — A lefty teacher’s campaign to knock off longtime Rep. Richard Neal in western Massachusetts is gaining national attention as left-wing insurgents take scalps across the country in primary contests — but police records obtained by The Post reveal …
Freerepublic.com · Yesterday 
Lefty Dem tipped as next House-incumbent slayer has rap sheet with drunken ER fight, car crashWASHINGTON — A lefty teacher’s campaign to knock off longtime Rep. Richard Neal in western Massachusetts is gaining national attention as left-wing insurgents take scalps across the country in primary contests — but police records obtained by The Post reveal …
New York Post · Yesterday
Why Would Congress Want to Punish People for Their IRA Savings?Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., rolled out the Retirement Fairness for Working Americans Act this week, and the name alone tells you how Washington sells a bad idea. There is nothing fair about capping retirement accounts and forcing s…
Biztoc.com · July 25, 2026
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Raw Story · July 20, 2026
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