
Johnny Olszewski, Jr.
Democrat · MD-2 · U.S. House
Bio
John Anthony Olszewski Jr., also known by his nickname Johnny O, is an American politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 2nd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 14th county executive of Baltimore County, Maryland, from 2018 to 2025.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 389 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 43
- Towson, MD · 410-427-5725
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
- $528k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $265k – $550k
- Net worth
- −$22k – $1.3M
- Since 2024
- −$227k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 36 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
Johnny Olszewski, Jr.'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
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'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
Rep. Johnny Olszewski proposes bill for 18-year Supreme Court term limitsRecent polling released by NBC News shows that only 22% of Americans have confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court. In the wake of that growing unpopularity, a new proposal in Congress would amend the Constitution to impose 18-year term limits on Supreme Court ju…
CBS News · May 5, 2026
Ex-Trump Allies Join Dems to Demand Trump Removal via 25th AmendmentAs President Donald Trump terrifies everyone around the world into thinking human civilization may end at 8 p.m. Tuesday, a growing number of political figures are calling for his removal, including a handful of slightly less spineless Republicans.Drop Site N…
The New Republic · April 7, 2026
Rep. Johnny Olszewski makes case for presidential pardon reform: "It's gotten very out of control"Presidents enjoy unchecked power to issue pardons. Some in Congress want to change that. Democratic Rep. Johnny Olszewski of Maryland joins "The Takeout" to discuss his proposed constitutional amendment that has the support of at least one Republican.
CBS News · February 18, 2026
Republican Backs Push to Limit Trump’s Pardon Power“A proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to block presidential pardons gained its first House Republican cosponsor on Monday,” Axios reports. “It’s a stark display of GOP defiance against President Trump, whose pardons have been…
Politicalwire.com · February 17, 2026
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