Mark Pocan

Democrat · WI-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Mark William Pocan is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since 2013. The district is based in the state capital, Madison. A member of the Democratic Party, Pocan is co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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Record of service

In office: 13.6 years
First took office: 2013 (7 terms)
Seniority: 119 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Madison, WI · 608-258-9800

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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

−$333k

2020

−$225k

2021

−$300k

2022

$95k

2023

$203k

2024

$778k

2025

$3.7M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.7M – $6.7M
Liabilities: $350k – $750k
Net worth: $986k – $6.4M
Since 2019: +$4.0M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 12 assets reported

Budget Signs & Specialties, 100% Interest$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Money Market Fund: Premium Class (FZDXX)$250k – $500k

Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund (FBGRX)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Equity Income Fund (FEQIX)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Intermediate Bond Fund (FTHRX)$100k – $250k

UW Credit Union$100k – $250k

Fidelity Limited Term Bond Fund (FJRLX)$50k – $100k

US Treasury I Bond$15k – $50k

US Treasury I Bond (#2)$15k – $50k

Fidelity New Millennium Fund (FMILX)$5k – $15k

Wings Credit Union$1k – $3k

Fidelity Floating Rate High Income (FFRHX)$1 – $200

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+0.66

Healthcare

D+0.79

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+0.88

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.89

Crime & Policing

D+0.61

Defense & Veterans

D+0.58

Economy & Labor

D+0.59

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.41

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.89

Education

D+0.76

Government & Democracy

D+0.83

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

Mark Pocan'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

91%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

89%

Communist Party USA

88%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

28%

On the political map

Mark Pocan (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 Pocansits 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 Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Financial Services and General Government Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Most and least aligned members

Treating Pocan'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.