Bonnie Watson Coleman

Democrat · NJ-12 · U.S. House

Bio

Bonnie Marie Watson Coleman is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson Coleman is the first African-American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Record of service

In office: 11.6 years
First took office: 2015 (6 terms)
Seniority: 142 of 437 by time served
Age: 81

District offices

Ewing, NJ · 609-883-0026

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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

2021

$271k

Most recent filing (2021)

Assets: $316k – $665k
Liabilities: $125k – $315k
Net worth: $1k – $540k

Largest holdings in the 2021 filing · 4 assets reported

Prudential Employee Deferred Comp Plan (NJ State)$250k – $500k

Bank of America$50k – $100k

NJ State Pension$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo$1k – $15k

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+0.64

Healthcare

D+0.72

Immigration & Border

D+0.85

Guns

D+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.58

Defense & Veterans

D+0.44

Economy & Labor

D+0.59

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.25

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.78

Government & Democracy

D+0.85

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

Bonnie Watson Coleman'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

90%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

87%

Communist Party USA

87%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

29%

On the political map

Bonnie Watson Coleman (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 Colemansits 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
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Coleman'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.