Chris Van Hollen
Democrat · MD · U.S. Senate
Bio
Christopher Van Hollen Jr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and as a Maryland state senator from 1995 to 2003.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years
- Chambers
- House 14y, Senate 9.7y
- First took office
- 2003 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 23 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Rockville, MD · 301-545-1500
- Hagerstown, MD · 301-797-2826
- Baltimore, MD · 667-212-4610
- Annapolis, MD · 410-263-1325
- Cambridge, MD · 410-221-2074
- Largo, MD · 301-322-6560
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
- $115k – $250k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- −$135k – $150k
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
Chris Van Hollen'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
Chris Van Hollen (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hollensits 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
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hollen'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
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Raw Story · October 8, 2026
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Biztoc.com · October 5, 2026
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The New Republic · September 30, 2026
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