Adam Smith
Democrat · WA-9 · U.S. House
WA-9 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Adam Smith is on the ballot. Adam Smith vs. Doug Basler.
Bio
David Adam Smith is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 9th congressional district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Smith previously served in the Washington State Senate.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.7 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 27 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Kent, WA · 425-793-5180
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
- $337k – $865k
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $237k – $815k
- Since 2019
- +$605k
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
Adam Smith'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
Adam Smith (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Smithsits 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 · 95 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
Most and least aligned members
Treating Smith'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
Rep. Adam Smith: We Have to Impeach and Remove Trump from OfficeOn Saturday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said it is time to remove President Donald Trump from office through impeachment. Smith said, “President Trump is not paying any attention to Congress. He’s not paying any attention to The p…
Breitbart News · October 11, 2026- Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Pentagon acknowledged late Friday that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.The Washington Post exc…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 10, 2026 
Outrage over US military plan to livestream firing squad executionRepresentative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said the plan is "disturbing and makes a mockery of our legal system."
CNA · October 9, 2026
Democrats unite around Hegseth impeachment pushThe News Congressional Democrats aren’t eager to impeach Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is a different story. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership circle remain reluctant to lean too far into talking about impeaching the president if they re…
Semafor.com · October 9, 2026
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