Sheldon Whitehouse
Democrat · RI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Sheldon Whitehouse is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1993 to 1998, and as the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003. He was elected to the Senate in 2006, defeating Republican incumbent Lincoln Chafee. He was reelected in 2012, 2018, and 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- First took office
- 2007 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 25 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 70
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Providence, RI · 401-453-5294
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
- $12.1M – $34.4M
- Liabilities
- $350k – $850k
- Net worth
- $11.2M – $34.0M
- Since 2017
- +$16.2M
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
Sheldon Whitehouse'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
Sheldon Whitehouse (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Whitehousesits 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
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europecenter · 9 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Whitehouse'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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