Catherine Cortez Masto
Democrat · NV · U.S. Senate
Bio
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nevada, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Cortez Masto served as the 32nd attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- First took office
- 2017 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 68 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Senate Democratic Outreach Vice Chair · 2023–present
- Las Vegas, NV · 702-388-5020
- Reno, NV · 775-686-5750
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 – $6.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.8M – $6.9M
- Since 2017
- +$1.8M
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
Catherine Cortez Masto'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
Catherine Cortez Masto (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Mastosits 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 Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Masto'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
An Army Study Showed Shock Gloves Caused 'Intense Pain' and Terrified Victims—Then ICE Ordered 6,000 Pairs of ThemWhen US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered 6,000 pairs of shock gloves this summer, the agency knew that they could cause such "intense pain" that victims stopped fighting immediately and became fearful of more shocks.That's according to The Associat…
Common Dreams · October 6, 2026
US to buy thousands of electric shock gloves for ICE agentsRights groups and Democrats are warning that ICE agents are unfit to use the shock gloves responsibly. Since US President Trump's crackdown on immigration, several people have been killed during ICE raids across the US. US immigration enforcement agency ICE h…
DW (English) · August 28, 2026
Group of Democratic senators calls on ICE to cancel plan to buy electric shock glovesA group of U.S. senators led by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cancel plans to outfit officers with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Abcnews.com · August 27, 2026
Senators Urge Regulator to 'Crack Down on Prediction Markets' Amid Wildfire BettingAs wildfires ravaged large swaths of the Western US, a group of Democratic senators on Monday called on federal regulators to rein in prediction markets offering contracts tied to such disasters, warning that turning climate-fueled extreme weather into financ…
Common Dreams · August 4, 2026
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