Brad Sherman

Democrat · CA-32 · U.S. House

Bio

Bradley James Sherman is an American accountant and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 32nd congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 1997. Sherman represented California's 24th congressional district for three terms, California's 27th congressional district for five terms, and California's 30th congressional district for five terms. His district includes parts of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County and Simi Valley in Ventura County.

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Record of service

In office: 29.6 years
First took office: 1997 (15 terms)
Seniority: 26 of 437 by time served
Age: 71

District offices

Sherman Oaks, CA · 818-501-9200

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.55

Healthcare

D+0.72

Immigration & Border

D+0.90

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.97

Environment & Energy

D+0.85

Crime & Policing

D+0.49

Defense & Veterans

D+0.11

Economy & Labor

D+0.52

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.03

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.58

Government & Democracy

D+0.75

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.80

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

Brad Sherman'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

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

83%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

34%

On the political map

Brad Sherman (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 Shermansits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Capital Markets (Ranking Member)Financial Institutions Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
East Asia and Pacific Middle East and North Africa

Most and least aligned members

Treating Sherman'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.