Diana DeGette
Democrat · CO-1 · U.S. House
CO-1 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Diana DeGette is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Melat Kiros vs. Christy Peterson.
Bio
Diana Louise DeGette is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 1st congressional district, which is based in Denver, since 1997. Previously, she served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.7 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 23 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 69
- Denver, CO · 303-844-4988
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
- $2.0M – $4.6M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- $472k – $3.9M
- Since 2019
- −$460k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 35 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
Diana DeGette'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
Diana DeGette (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 DeGette?
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Caucuses & committees
Where DeGettesits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating DeGette'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
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The New Republic · September 1, 2026
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