John P. Sarbanes
FormerDemocrat · MD-3 · U.S. House
No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $713k – $1.7M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $463k – $1.6M
- Since 2019
- +$621k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 13 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
John P. Sarbanes'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
John P. Sarbanes (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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Most and least aligned members
Treating Sarbanes'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.
