Chris Van Hollen
Democrat · MD · U.S. Senate
Bio
Christopher Van Hollen Jr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and as a Maryland state senator from 1995 to 2003.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.6 years
- Chambers
- House 14y, Senate 9.6y
- First took office
- 2003 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 23 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Rockville, MD · 301-545-1500
- Hagerstown, MD · 301-797-2826
- Baltimore, MD · 667-212-4610
- Annapolis, MD · 410-263-1325
- Cambridge, MD · 410-221-2074
- Largo, MD · 301-322-6560
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
- $115k – $250k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- −$135k – $150k
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
Chris Van Hollen'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
Chris Van Hollen (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hollensits 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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hollen'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
Van Hollen: Voters 'Want Democrats Who Are Going To Stand For Something'Sen. Chris Van Hollen understands that many voters in the Democratic Party are looking for change from the current leadership and welcomes discussing the differences and the similarities with members of the DSA as a productive measure. TV news hosts routinel…
Crooksandliars.com · Yesterday
Chris Van Hollen Says DSA Has Place in Democratic PartySenator Chris Van Hollen said Sunday that Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) supporters have a place in the Democratic Party, inserting himself into a growing debate over the party's direction following a string of victories by progressive and DSA-aligned…
Biztoc.com · Yesterday
The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an EndMost discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florid…
Common Dreams · August 19, 2026
Senators slap back as Trump launches 'alarming' attack on privacyWhat Happened: Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries. In a letter to Secreta…
Raw Story · August 19, 2026
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