Chellie Pingree
Democrat · ME-1 · U.S. House
ME-1 — U.S. House
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Bio
Chellie Marie Pingree is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since 2009. Her district includes most of the southern part of the state, centered on Greater Portland. A member of the Democratic Party, Pingree was a member of the Maine Senate from 1992 to 2000, serving as majority leader for her last four years. She ran for the United States Senate in 2002, losing to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. From 2003 until 2006, she was president and CEO of Common Cause. She is the first Democratic woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine. She is the Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.7 years
- First took office
- 2009 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 71 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Portland, ME · 207-774-5019
- Waterville, ME · 207-873-5713
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
- $2.6M – $11.6M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $2.6M – $11.6M
- Since 2019
- −$2.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 28 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
Chellie Pingree'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
Chellie Pingree (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 Pingreesits 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
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pingree'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
US Democrat urges House Speaker to sue Trump admin over triumphal arch, says Congress never approved fundsUS News: House Democrat Chellie Pingree demands Speaker Mike Johnson take legal action against the Trump administration for starting work on a triumphal arch in Washington without Congressional approval. This move raises questions about funding and authority …
The Times of India · September 8, 2026
Over a Month After ICE Killing in Biddeford, Grieving Family Waits for AnswersWith Republican lawmakers refusing to use their congressional authority to investigate a federal agent's fatal shooting last month of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, Democratic leaders assembled a "shadow hearing" on Monday at a local high…
Common Dreams · August 18, 2026
The Left Should Partner with MAHA to Protect Our Health From GlyphosateThe Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, could not be sued because the label of its product, the weed killer Roundup, didn’t mention that the herbicide could cause cancer. The ruling blocked thousands of lawsuits by cancer patie…
Common Dreams · August 4, 2026
‘A debacle of catastrophic proportions’: Maine congresswoman BLASTS ICE over latest fatal shootingJohan Sebastián Durán Guerrero's death has left his community “terrorized,” says Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.
Biztoc.com · July 18, 2026
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