Mark Takano
Democrat · CA-39 · U.S. House
Bio
Mark Allan Takano is an American politician and academic who has served in the United States House of Representatives since 2013, representing California's 41st congressional district from 2013 to 2023 and the 39th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Takano became the first gay person of Asian descent in Congress upon taking office.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 103 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 65
- Riverside, CA · 951-222-0203
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
- $197k – $530k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $197k – $530k
- Since 2019
- +$147k
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
Mark Takano'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
Mark Takano (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 Takanosits 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
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Takano'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
Mike Johnson battered in Dem victory speech as key GOP bill crashes in HouseWashington, D.C. — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) came out swinging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Republican leaders were embarrassingly forced to pull a bipartisan veterans bill from the floor Thursday after another revolt from Johnson’s ri…
Raw Story · July 16, 2026
Watch: Congressman spars with RFK Jr. about Trump's mental fitnessDemocratic Rep. Mark Takano of California sparred with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about President Trump's mental fitness. Takano asked Kennedy whether he would insist that the president undergo an assessment of his mental fitness and emotional stabil…
CBS News · April 17, 2026
Democrat Asks RFK Jr. About The 25th Amendment. The Copium Was Instant.California Democratic Rep. Mark Takano offered a masterclass in grilling Health Secretary RFK Jr. during a congressional hearing. Right to the point, he asked, "Should Trump fail a mental fitness test, would you vote to invoke the 25th Amendment?" RFK Jr., i…
Crooksandliars.com · April 17, 2026
House Bill Aims to Achieve Goals of FTC’s Click-to-Cancel Subscription RuleA bill reintroduced in the U.S. House aims to protect consumers from what its sponsors called “misleading subscription plans” that trick consumers into paying monthly membership fees without their explicit consent. The Unsubscribe Act (H.R. 7048), sponsored b…
pymnts.com · January 27, 2026
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