Tina Smith
Democrat · MN · U.S. Senate
Bio
Christine Elizabeth "Tina" Smith is an American politician, retired Democratic political consultant, and former businesswoman serving as the junior United States senator from Minnesota since 2018. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 8.6 years
- First took office
- 2018 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 75 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Moorhead, MN · 218-284-8721
- Duluth, MN · 218-722-2390
- Saint Paul, MN · 651-221-1016
- Rochester, MN · 507-218-2003
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
- $3.2M – $7.0M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- $1.7M – $6.2M
- Since 2018
- −$78k
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
Tina 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
Tina Smith (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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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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
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
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