Alex Padilla
Democrat · CA · U.S. Senate
Bio
Alejandro Padilla is an American politician and engineer serving as the senior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 29th secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles City Council.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.6 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 87 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Fresno, CA · 559-497-5109
- San Francisco, CA · 415-981-9369
- Sacramento, CA · 916-448-2787
- San Diego, CA · 619-239-3884
- Los Angeles, CA · 310-231-4494
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
- $1.0M – $5.0M
- Liabilities
- $515k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$35k – $4.5M
- Since 2021
- +$2.5M
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
Alex Padilla'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
Alex Padilla (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 Padillasits 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 Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Joint Committee on Printingcenter · 10 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Padilla'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
Dems in Uproar Over Clear Loopholes in New Trump IRS SettlementActing Attorney General Todd Blanche’s supposed deal to end President Trump’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in his settlement with the IRS has a lot of loopholes.As Blanche seems to have stifled a Republican revolt and secured his Senate confirmati…
The New Republic · August 3, 2026
‘Moderate’ Netanyahu Alternative Who Met With Dems Wants Israel to Keep Expanding Its BordersFaced with mounting pressure from constituents to stop providing military support to Israel's genocidal wars, some Democrats in Congress who've long expressed unwavering support for the country are hoping that its elections this fall could provide a reset.On …
Common Dreams · July 30, 2026
Green Card Bill That Would Help Millions, H-1B Holders RenewedA California Democrat is pushing legislation that would provide a pathway to lawful permanent residency for millions of immigrants, including Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status holders, and some H-1B visa holders. Senator Alex Padilla, the ranking member of…
Biztoc.com · July 30, 2026
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Raw Story · July 24, 2026
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