Amy Klobuchar
Democrat · MN · U.S. Senate
Bio
Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she served from 1999 to 2007 as county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota. She is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 24 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Senate Democratic Steering Committee Chair · 2019–present
- Minneapolis, MN · 612-727-5220
- Moorhead, MN · 218-287-2219
- Rochester, MN · 507-288-5321
- Virginia, MN · 218-741-9690
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
- $1.8M – $4.3M
- Liabilities
- $465k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- $721k – $3.8M
- Since 2018
- +$923k
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
Amy Klobuchar'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
Amy Klobuchar (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Klobucharsits 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
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade (Ex Officio)Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology (Ex Officio)Rural Development, Energy, and Credit (Ex Officio)Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research (Ex Officio)Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Klobuchar'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
Democrats are about to see the Jack Smith texts that blew up in a GOP senator’s faceWASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched false accusations at a recent hearing and called t…
Raw Story · Yesterday
Watch Quisling Amy Klobuchar Grovel Before SomalisFor now, Caucasians can still get elected to public office in the Somali beachhead Minnesota, so long as they are groveling quislings like gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar. Here’s what we can expect her political rallies to look like: In this … Continue …
Moonbattery.com · October 5, 2026
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The New Republic · October 2, 2026
Amy Klobuchar Explains How She Knew Eric Schmitt Was Putting On A Clown Show Before He Did“I knew immediately what it was,” the Minnesota Democrat said.
HuffPost · October 1, 2026
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