Maxine Waters
Democrat · CA-43 · U.S. House
Bio
Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torrance.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 35.6 years
- First took office
- 1991 (18 terms)
- Seniority
- 10 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 88
- Hawthorne, CA · 323-757-8900
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
- $1.4M – $6.0M
- Liabilities
- $710k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- −$139k – $5.3M
- Since 2019
- +$2.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 11 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
Maxine Waters'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
Maxine Waters (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 Waterssits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
Most and least aligned members
Treating Waters'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
- Children’s charity funded by Singham, Soros tied to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: report
A California children’s charity funded by billionaire George Soros stands accused of sending cash which may have ended up in the hands of a Palestinian terrorist organization, according to a new report obtained by The Post. The Berkeley-based Middle East Chil…
Freerepublic.com · July 28, 2026 
What’s Going on With the Big Housing Bill, Exactly?As President Trump holds a popular bipartisan bill hostage, Democrats say that the issue is out of their hands, and that the onus is on Republicans to stand up to the president and get the legislation signed.On Wednesday Trump was set to sign the 21st Century…
The New Republic · June 26, 2026
Dems Celebrate Housing Bill: “We Finally Did Something”The bipartisan housing bill the House and Senate passed this week doesn’t go far enough, Democratic leaders say. But it’s still one of the most significant pieces of housing legislation passed in decades. Further Democratic goals on housing might have to wait…
The New Republic · June 24, 2026- Congress’ most out-of-it members: seniors who freeze, get bamboozled and even have dementia, yet remain in office
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) doesn’t think 100 is too old to serve in Congress, as we reported last week. Despite twice being duped by Russian comedians and regularly making little sense, the 87-year-old is hitting the campaign trial once again this year to …
Freerepublic.com · May 20, 2026
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