Joe Neguse
Democrat · CO-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Joseph D. Neguse is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 2nd congressional district since 2019. The district is located in the north central part of the state, based in Fort Collins, Longmont, and Boulder, and includes many rural communities and mountain towns, including Walden, Granby, Steamboat Springs, and Gypsum. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a regent of the University of Colorado from 2008 to 2015. Neguse is the first Eritrean-American elected to the United States Congress and Colorado's first black member of Congress. Neguse has served as House assistant Democratic leader since 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 196 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 42
- Assistant House Minority Leader · 2024–present
- Boulder, CO · 303-335-1045
- Fort Collins, CO · 970-372-3971
- Frisco, CO · 303-335-1045
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
- $550k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $525k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$515k – $575k
- Since 2019
- +$343k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 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
Joe Neguse'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
Joe Neguse (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 Negusesits 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 Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
- House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Neguse'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
NASA dodged Trump's worst cuts. Scientists say what's left is still devastating.A congressional panel has voted to advance a spending bill that funds NASA, rejecting the White House’s proposal to cut the agency nearly in half but still imposing a significant reduction on the science programs that underpin Colorado’s aerospace economy and…
Raw Story · May 25, 2026
FEMA Caught Blocking Grants to States That Didn’t Vote for TrumpFEMA has been deliberately delaying grants to blue states, putting American citizens and indigenous tribal land at risk in order to carry out President Trump’s petty and vindictive agenda.On Friday, The Washington Post reported that FEMA significantly decreas…
The New Republic · May 8, 2026
Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad CampaignThe Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noem’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government shutdown last year. But when asked to explain her rationale before a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, …
The New Republic · March 4, 2026
Federal Judge Deals Major Blow to Kristi Noem on Oversight of ICEA federal judge has revoked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s ability to restrict members of Congress from entering ICE facilities. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that Noem’s requirement that members of Congress give her a week’s notice…
The New Republic · March 2, 2026
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