Ayanna Pressley
Democrat · MA-7 · U.S. House
Bio
Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since 2019. This district includes the northern three quarters of Boston, most of Cambridge, parts of Milton, as well as all of Chelsea, Everett, Randolph, and Somerville.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 208 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 52
- Boston, MA · 617-850-0040
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
- $2.3M – $7.5M
- Liabilities
- $2.1M – $7.3M
- Net worth
- −$5.0M – $5.4M
- Since 2019
- +$213k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 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
Ayanna Pressley'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
Ayanna Pressley (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Pressleysits 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
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pressley'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
'Sadistic and Cruel': Democratic Lawmakers Rail Against $20 Million for ICE's Electric Shock GlovesDemocrats in both chambers of Congress this week have joined rights advocates in forcefully denouncing plans for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to spend up to $20 million on "gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks."The Department of Homeland …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
The Solution to the Democrats’ John Fetterman ProblemFlipping four Senate seats, which would give Democrats a 51-seat majority in the upper house, is a daunting enough challenge for this midterm cycle. But that’s the easy part. Realistically, the party really needs to flip five. Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman si…
The New Republic · August 4, 2026
Green Groups Rally Behind Tennessee's Justin Pearson for CongressA week away from Tennessee's Democratic primary, a coalition of national advocacy groups endorsed Justin Pearson, who is running to represent the state's 9th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives."Tennesseans deserve a champion who will st…
Common Dreams · July 30, 2026- Ed Markey's new ad showcases support from the left – and an age problem
Sen. Ed Markey’s campaign released an ad this week meant to tout his progressive support. Instead, the ad — which featured quick cuts of his top endorsers, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), along with Rep. Ayanna Pressle…
Freerepublic.com · July 28, 2026
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