Rand Paul
Republican · KY · U.S. Senate
Bio
Randal Howard Paul is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 45 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 63
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- son of Ronald Ernest Paul
- Bowling Green, KY · 270-782-8303
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
- $1.3M – $3.4M
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $1.2M – $3.3M
- Since 2018
- +$1.5M
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
Rand Paul'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
Rand Paul (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Paulsits 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
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 membersEurope and Regional Security CooperationAfrica and Global Health PolicyMultilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental PolicyState Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Paul'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
Rand Paul Goes To Fort Knox To Verify That US Gold Stockpile Still ExistsRand Paul Goes To Fort Knox To Verify That US Gold Stockpile Still Exists In September 1974, amid public and congressional concerns, a high-profile inspection occurred at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. In a rare exception to the "no visitors" pol…
Biztoc.com · August 17, 2026
A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to ShameOn the fifth anniversary of Brownstone Institute’s founding, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the diaries of Anthony Fauci during the Covid years until his retirement. They were written on government computers with the assistance of aides, so in no way are t…
Activistpost.com · August 14, 2026- From 'audit the Fed' to 'trust me, it's there' -- Rand Paul's Fort Knox fumble
Americans have long demanded real answers about U.S. gold holdings. Year after year, they receive only vague political half-answers that raise more questions than they answer. The latest example is this week. On August 10, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., son of sound …
Freerepublic.com · August 13, 2026 
‘We’ve come to see the gold’: Watch Rand Paul go underground at Fort Knox to inspect U.S. gold supply'The dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Fed opened in 1913. This is no accident. Congress spends without limit, while the Fed prints the difference'
Wnd.com · August 11, 2026
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