Chellie Pingree

Democrat · ME-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Chellie Marie Pingree is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. Her district includes most of the southern part of the state, centered around the Portland area.

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Record of service

In office: 17.6 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 71 of 437 by time served
Age: 71

District offices

Portland, ME · 207-774-5019
Waterville, ME · 207-873-5713

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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

2019

$9.6M

2020

$6.5M

2021

$7.3M

2022

$7.2M

2023

$7.2M

2024

$7.3M

2025

$7.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.6M – $11.6M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $2.6M – $11.6M
Since 2019: −$2.5M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 28 assets reported

Nebo Lodge Inc. Inn and Restaurant$1.0M – $5.0M

Paloma Partners$1.0M – $5.0M

SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$100k – $250k

SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF (SPTS)$50k – $100k

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (VGSH)$50k – $100k

Camden National Bank$15k – $50k

SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF (SPTI)$15k – $50k

United States Treasury Notes; 4.125%; Due 6-15-26$15k – $50k

United States Treasury Notes; 4.25%; Due 3-15-27$15k – $50k

United States Treasury Notes; 4.375%; Due 12-15-26$15k – $50k

United States Treasury Notes; 4.625%; Due 9-15-26$15k – $50k

Vanguard FTSE All-Wld ex-US SmCp Idx ETF (VSS)$15k – $50k

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF (VGIT)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares (VTIP)$15k – $50k

Fidelity Government Cash Reserves (FDRXX)$1k – $15k

SPDR Bloomberg 3-12 Month T-Bill ETF (BILS)$1k – $15k

WisdomTree Emerging Market SmallCap Fund (DGS)$1k – $15k

United States Treasury Notes; 3.875%; Due 1-15-26$201 – $1k

United States Treasury Notes; 4.25%; Due 10-15-25$201 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.58

Healthcare

D+0.73

Immigration & Border

D+0.85

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.90

Crime & Policing

D+0.55

Defense & Veterans

D+0.22

Economy & Labor

D+0.59

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.27

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.92

Education

D+0.81

Government & Democracy

D+0.85

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

Chellie Pingree'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)

86%

Communist Party USA

86%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Chellie Pingree (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

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 Pingreesits 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

Committees

House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (Ranking Member)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Pingree'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.