Adam B. Schiff
Democrat · CA · U.S. Senate
Bio
Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2024 and in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2000. Before being elected to public office, Schiff was a law clerk, an assistant United States attorney from 1987 to 1993, and an unsuccessful candidate for California State Assembly in 1994.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 25.6 years
- Chambers
- House 23.9y, Senate 1.7y
- First took office
- 2001 (14 terms)
- Seniority
- 18 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- San Francisco, CA · 415-393-0707
- Fresno, CA · 559-485-7430
- San Diego, CA · 619-231-9712
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
- $1.0M – $2.4M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $534k – $2.2M
- Since 2019
- +$122k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 17 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 B. Schiff'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 B. Schiff (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schiffsits 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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schiff'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
The 5 Outrageous Things Trump’s New Attorney General Has Already DoneIn just his first week in office, Todd Blanche has inflicted more damage on the norms and traditions of the Department of Justice than any attorney general in its history. I don’t say this casually, and I’m not ignoring the competition. John Mitchell ran Rich…
The New Republic · August 21, 2026
Sen. Adam Schiff on Israel, Impeachment, and Post-Trump AmericaSen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back in 2020, the California Democrat was the lead prosecutor during the first Trump impeachment trial as a member of the House of Representative…
Mother Jones · August 19, 2026
'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
UC Regent Scott Galloway gets first-hand lesson in socialism1. Teacher, teacher! He’s using AI to make fun of us! by Evan Milenko, writer California Reps. Adam Schiff and Ro Khanna introduced the AI Ads Act last week, a bill to stop campaigns from using AI to “fraudulently misrepresent” opposing candidates. While nob…
New York Post · August 6, 2026
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