
Patrick Ryan
Democrat · NY-18 · U.S. House
Bio
Patrick Kevin Ryan is an American businessman, politician, and former U.S. Army intelligence officer serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 18th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the representative for New York's 19th congressional district from 2022 to 2023 after being elected in a special election. Before being elected to the House, he was the county executive of Ulster County, New York.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.9 years
- First took office
- 2022 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 292 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 44
- Kingston, NY · 845-443-2930
- Newburgh, NY · 845-443-2930
- Poughkeepsie, NY · 845-443-2930
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
- $1.7M – $5.0M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $1.2M – $4.8M
- Since 2022
- +$418k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 87 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
Patrick Ryan'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
Patrick Ryan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Ryansits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ryan'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
Democrats’ Plan for Ending the Iran WarEditor’s Note: Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. It’s our new daily newsletter that covers Congress and much more, but with a distinctly TNR twist: Our focus will be strictly on Democrats, liberal and progressive groups, and the fight to take back power and save …
The New Republic · July 22, 2026
The Lawmakers Fighting to Modernize the PentagonCongress rarely moves fast, but Reps. Rob Wittman and Pat Ryan are trying to change that. The two lawmakers founded the bipartisan House Defense Modernization Caucus in 2024 and have driven reforms through two consecutive defense authorization acts, targeting…
War on the Rocks · June 8, 2026- 3652 - Trump Lost the War, Can he End it?
It's news day Tuesdy on The Majority Report On today's program: Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) calls House Republicans chickenhawks as they adjourn for a long weekend without voting on the War Powers Resolution after realizing they did not have enough votes. Trump post…
Libsyn.com · May 26, 2026
Hegseth Accuses Troops of Lying as He’s Faced With Facts on Iran WarDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is continuing to lie about an Iranian drone strike that killed six U.S. service members in early March, and now he’s lashing out at the survivors of the blast too.After the missile struck the troop base, the defense secretary mi…
The New Republic · April 29, 2026
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