Nydia M. Velázquez
Democrat · NY-7 · U.S. House
Bio
Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented New York's 12th congressional district from 1993 to 2013, prior to redistricting. She chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus from 2009 to 2011. Velázquez is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 33.6 years
- First took office
- 1993 (17 terms)
- Seniority
- 16 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 73
- Brooklyn, NY · 718-599-3658
- Sunnyside, NY · 718-340-6244
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
- $500k – $1.0M
- Liabilities
- $200k – $500k
- Net worth
- $1 – $800k
- Since 2023
- +$13k
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
Nydia M. Velázquez'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
Nydia M. Velázquez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Velázquezsits 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 Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Velázquez'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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