Norma J. Torres

Democrat · CA-35 · U.S. House

Bio

Norma Judith Torres is an American politician. She is a member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 35th congressional district. Previously, she was a member of the California State Senate representing the 32nd district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Record of service

In office: 11.6 years
First took office: 2015 (6 terms)
Seniority: 132 of 437 by time served
Age: 61

District offices

Ontario, CA · 909-481-6474

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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

2019

−$787k

2020

−$716k

2021

−$504k

2022

−$824k

2023

−$824k

2024

−$810k

2025

−$810k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $66k – $165k
Liabilities: $600k – $1.3M
Net worth: −$1.2M – −$435k
Since 2019: −$23k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

City of Los Angeles Deferred Compensation Plan ⇒ DCP Large-Cap Stock Fund$50k – $100k

LACERS Pension Plan (Los Angeles, CA)$15k – $50k

Inland Valley Strategic Partner$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.52

Healthcare

D+0.67

Immigration & Border

D+0.84

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.78

Crime & Policing

D+0.38

Defense & Veterans

D+0.16

Economy & Labor

D+0.55

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.18

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.82

Education

D+0.67

Government & Democracy

D+0.78

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.58

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

Norma J. Torres's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

95%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

83%

Communist Party USA

82%

Libertarian Party

56%

Republican Party

35%

On the political map

Norma J. Torres (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Torressits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Torres'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.