Melanie A. Stansbury
Democrat · NM-1 · U.S. House
Bio
Melanie Ann Stansbury is an American politician and former ecology instructor serving as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2021. The district includes the majority of Albuquerque and most of its suburbs. A Democrat, Stansbury previously served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives for the 28th district from 2019 to 2021.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.2 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 286 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 47
- Albuquerque, NM · 505-346-6781
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
- $100k – $250k
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $1 – $200k
- Since 2020
- +$29k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 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
Melanie A. Stansbury'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
Melanie A. Stansbury (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Stansburysits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Stansbury'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
‘Fake historian’ exposed as mastermind behind Trump’s Smithsonian obsession: reportPresident Donald Trump's moves to discredit the Smithsonian Museum of American History are being driven by a notorious Christian nationalist "fake historian," according to a new report. According to Judd Legum's Popular Information, Trump's "Restoring Trust i…
Raw Story · July 29, 2026
Rep. Stansbury urges Congress to ‘STEP IN AT THIS MOMENT’ of escalation in the Iran warRep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), member of the House Oversight Committee, joins Alex Witt to discuss the two U.S. service ...
Biztoc.com · July 18, 2026- Stansbury cries gerrymandering again after Dems carved up NM (No Pub congressional representative since 2020)
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury is doubling down on her gerrymandering fundraising pitch, again accusing Republicans of trying to “deny representation” while ignoring the political reality right here in New Mexico: Democrats used total control of Santa Fe to redr…
Freerepublic.com · June 17, 2026 
Acting AG Todd Blanche To Testify About Epstein To Oversight CommitteeRep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico spoke to reporters on Wednesday following sitting in on a closed-door Oversight Committee deposition of Bill Gates. Gates was called before Congress to testify about his ties to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein in the ongoing …
Crooksandliars.com · June 12, 2026
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