Lauren Underwood

Democrat · IL-14 · U.S. House

Bio

Lauren Ashley Underwood is an American politician and registered nurse who is a U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party. Her district, once represented by former House speaker Dennis Hastert, includes the outer western suburbs of Chicago, including DeKalb, Joliet, Oswego, Ottawa, and Yorkville.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 204 of 437 by time served
Age: 39

District offices

Joliet, IL · 630-549-2190

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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

$41k

2020

−$326k

2021

−$310k

2022

−$293k

2023

−$278k

2024

−$285k

2025

−$309k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $19k – $112k
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: −$481k – −$138k
Since 2019: −$350k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 assets reported

Fidelity Investment ⇒ Vanguard 500 Index Fd Admiral Shs (VFIAX)$15k – $50k

DuPage Credit Union$1k – $15k

Government Printing Office Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Vanguard Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Admiral Shares (VFTAX)$1k – $15k

Vanguard Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Fund (VSVNX)$1k – $15k

Alliant Credit Union$1 – $1k

Fidelity Health Savings Account ⇒ FDIC Insured$1 – $1k

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+0.39

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.77

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.85

Crime & Policing

D+0.58

Defense & Veterans

D+0.24

Economy & Labor

D+0.47

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.21

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.84

Education

D+0.70

Government & Democracy

D+0.76

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

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

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Lauren Underwood (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 Underwoodsits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Homeland Security

Most and least aligned members

Treating Underwood'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.