Linda T. Sánchez
Democrat · CA-38 · U.S. House
Bio
Linda Teresa Sánchez is an American politician and former labor lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for California's 38th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to Congress in 2002 in California's 39th congressional district. Sánchez serves on the Ways and Means Committee; she was the ranking member on the House Ethics Committee until 2017. In the 114th Congress, she chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.6 years
- First took office
- 2003 (12 terms)
- Seniority
- 42 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 57
- sister of Loretta Sanchez
- Whittier, CA · 562-860-5050
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 – $2.1M
- Liabilities
- $1.1M – $2.3M
- Net worth
- −$1.2M – $961k
- Since 2019
- −$335k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 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
Linda T. Sánchez'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
Linda T. Sánchez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Sánchezsits 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
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Sánchez'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
Declaring Victory in California, Progressive Randy Villegas Aims to Oust GOP Rep. ValadaoProgressive Randy Villegas on Tuesday declared victory in a primary race for California's new 22nd Congressional District, a key part of Democratic efforts to combat President Donald Trump's attempt to maintain GOP control of Congress by rigging maps.Californ…
Common Dreams · June 9, 2026
Trump Deportation Push Continues With TSA-ICE Partnership and Move to Strip Legal StatusAs a "chilling" report in the New York Times revealed that the Transportation Security Administration is providing the names of all airline passengers to immigration officials, President Donald Trump's administration on Friday also openly continued its war on…
Common Dreams · December 13, 2025
Watch: Bessent and congresswoman spar over tariffs, U.S.-China trade dealRep. Linda Sánchez of California and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sparred over President Trump's tariff policy at a House hearing on the department's budget request. Sánchez questioned whether the Trump administration negotiated a good trade deal with Chi…
CBS News · June 11, 2025
Being a mom in Congress is hard. But it doesn’t have to be, members say - Roll Call“I really felt like I was building the wheel,” recalls Rep. Linda Sánchez, one of only 13 voting members to ever give birth while in Congress.
Roll Call · May 7, 2025
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