Nellie Pou

Democrat · NJ-9 · U.S. House

Bio

Nelida Avila Pou is an American politician and business administrator serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 9th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the New Jersey Senate from 2012 to 2025 and the New Jersey General Assembly from 1997 to 2012, representing the 35th legislative district. When Pou was sworn into the Assembly on January 29, 1997, to succeed Bill Pascrell, she became the first woman and the first Hispanic to represent the 35th district.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 407 of 437 by time served
Age: 70

District offices

Paterson, NJ · 973-523-5152

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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

2024

$1.9M

2025

$2.0M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.2M – $2.9M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $1.2M – $2.9M
Since 2024: +$135k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 29 assets reported

30th Street Mortgage Recording$500k – $1.0M

Chase Bank$100k – $250k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ AMERICAN EXPRESS NATL BK BROKERED INTL CTF DEP PROGRAM INSTL$100k – $250k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Goldman Sachs BK USA New York CTF Dep$100k – $250k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ PGIM Quantitative Solution Large-C$50k – $100k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund Common Shares of Benefi$50k – $100k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ MFS Municipal High Yield Muni Bond Fund A (MMHYX)$50k – $100k

7 Marshall, LLC$15k – $50k

Chase Bank$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/AB Small Cap Growth$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/Equity 500 Index$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/Invesco Global$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/JPMorgan Growth Stock$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/MFS Technology$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ EQ/Mid Cap Index$15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ BNY Mellon Small Cap Value Fund Cl$15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ Core Bond Enhanced Index/PGIM Fund$15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ DCP Stable Value$15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ PGIM Quantitative Solution MidCap $15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ Vanguard Institutional Index (VINI$15k – $50k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ Vanguard Small Cap Index Fd Admira$15k – $50k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Global X Super Dividend ETF (DIV)$15k – $50k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ 1290 VT GAMCO Small Co Val$1k – $15k

Equitable Variable Annuity Series ⇒ Guaranteed Interest Account$1k – $15k

New Jersey State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ Core Plus Bond/PGIM Fund$1k – $15k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Amarin Corporation plc - American Depositary Shares (AMRN)$1k – $15k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Carnival Corporation Common Stock (CCL)$1k – $15k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ PENN Entertainment, Inc. - Common Stock (PENN)$1k – $15k

Pershing LLC - Brokerage ⇒ Pershing - Flex Insured Account$1k – $15k

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+0.56

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.93

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.54

Defense & Veterans

D+0.75

Economy & Labor

D+0.66

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.60

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.68

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

Nellie Pou's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Green Party

92%Closest

Democratic Party

90%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

90%

Communist Party USA

89%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

26%

On the political map

Nellie Pou (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 Pousits 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
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Homeland Securitycenter · 31 members
Counterterrorism and Intelligence
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Highways and Transit Water Resources and Environment

Most and least aligned members

Treating Pou'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.