Ayanna Pressley
Democrat · MA-7 · U.S. House
MA-7 — U.S. House
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Bio
Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since 2019. This district includes the northern three quarters of Boston, most of Cambridge, parts of Milton, as well as all of Chelsea, Everett, Randolph, and Somerville.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 208 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 52
- Boston, MA · 617-850-0040
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
- $2.3M – $7.5M
- Liabilities
- $2.1M – $7.3M
- Net worth
- −$5.0M – $5.4M
- Since 2019
- +$213k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 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
Ayanna Pressley'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
Ayanna Pressley (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 Pressleysits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pressley'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
'Abolish ICE,' Say Potential 2028 Candidates AOC and Khanna After Latest Shooting in NYCTwo top progressive Democratic leaders were among those demanding an end on Friday to the 23-year-old federal agency that has provoked outrage and fear across US communities over the past 21 months under Trump administration—most recently on Thursday night, w…
Common Dreams · October 9, 2026
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The New Republic · September 17, 2026- AOC’s faux lynching panic exposes the left’s poisonous racial delusions (only 4.37 years left)
Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say — but sometimes they’re just paranoid. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of The Squad, organized 59 Democrats to co-sign her letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings t…
Freerepublic.com · September 15, 2026 - AOC, lefty ‘Squad’ pal stir up panic over ‘modern-day lynchings’ — despite most recent hangings being ruled suicides (only 4.38 years left)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a “Squad” buddy whipped up a panic Thursday demanding the feds to probe “a national crisis” involving a string of “modern-day lynchings” of blacks — even though all available evidence does not point to racial animus in the tr…
Freerepublic.com · September 12, 2026
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