Adam Smith
Democrat · WA-9 · U.S. House
Bio
David Adam Smith is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 9th congressional district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Smith previously served in the Washington State Senate.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.6 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 27 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Kent, WA · 425-793-5180
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
- $337k – $865k
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $237k – $815k
- Since 2019
- +$605k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 11 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
Adam Smith'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
Adam Smith (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Smithsits 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
Most and least aligned members
Treating Smith'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
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Common Dreams · August 18, 2026
Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don’t You Try Fix Capitalism?Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living memory of the various socialist regimes that once dotted the pla…
The New Republic · August 10, 2026
Socialist Candidate Rages at Washington Democrat for Spoiling Challenge to Rep. Adam Smith: 'Shame on Her!'A Socialist Washington Congressional candidate slammed one of her Democrat opponents for staying in the race and spoiling her chances at winning in Tuesday night's election, stating, "Shame on her." The post Socialist Candidate Rages at Washington Democrat fo…
Breitbart News · August 5, 2026
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The New Republic · August 4, 2026
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