Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democrat · FL-25 · U.S. House
FL-25 — U.S. House
Toss-up 55%Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Jared Moskowitz vs. Scott Singer. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Deborah Wasserman Schultz is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 25th congressional district, first elected to Congress in 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2011 until her resignation in 2016.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.7 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 52 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Sunrise, FL · 954-845-1179
- Hollywood, FL · 954-845-1179
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
- $302k – $709k
- Liabilities
- $675k – $1.4M
- Net worth
- −$1.1M – $34k
- Since 2019
- +$420k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 21 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
Debbie Wasserman Schultz'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
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (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.
Do you vote like Schultz?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schultzsits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schultz'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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