Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat · NY-14 · U.S. House
NY-14 — U.S. House
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Bio
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is an American politician and activist who has served since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 218 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 37
- Bronx, NY
- Queens, NY
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
- $17k – $81k
- Liabilities
- $15k – $50k
- Net worth
- −$33k – $66k
- Since 2019
- +$41k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'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
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (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 Ocasio-Cortezsits 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
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ocasio-Cortez'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
The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Tireless SocialistWhat can the history of American socialism tell us about the present and future of democratic politics? The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in socialism, from Bernie Sanders’s runs for president to the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and recen…
The New Republic · Yesterday
Republicans want Abdul El-Sayed to be the main character of the midterms. He's on board.PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed, holding a handheld mic and wearing his signature V-neck black shirt, slowly shook his head as a woman at his town hall described how she burned through her savings after undergoing emergency brain surgery. “I’m really…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 11, 2026
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Arizona Congress Candidate Speaks Out About Her Rape, ‘It’s OK to Talk About It’: Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Run for President?Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and …
Ms. Magazine · October 10, 2026
Chuck Schumer has a 2028 problem that's not even in New YorkSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is going to have his hands full next Congress, even without a threat to his leadership or a primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Why it matters: Schumer (D-N.Y.) will have to grapple with the pres…
Biztoc.com · October 9, 2026
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