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Donald M. Payne, Jr.

Former

Democrat · NJ-10 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2019
$41k
2020
$48k
2021
$48k
2022
$48k
Most recent filing (2022)
Assets
$6k – $90k
Liabilities
$0 – $0
Net worth
$6k – $90k
Since 2019
+$8k
Largest holdings in the 2022 filing · 6 assets reported
BANK OF AMERICA$1k – $15k
CAPITAL ONE$1k – $15k
CHASE$1k – $15k
CONGRESSIONAL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION$1k – $15k
MetLife, Inc. (MET)$1k – $15k
Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.70
Healthcare
D+0.79
Immigration & Border
D+0.71
Guns
D+0.83
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.79
Environment & Energy
D+0.79
Crime & Policing
D+0.65
Defense & Veterans
D+0.18
Economy & Labor
D+0.62
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.33
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.95
Education
D+0.68
Government & Democracy
D+0.86
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+1.00

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

Donald M. Payne, Jr.'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

Donald M. Payne, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Jr.'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

NAY
Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.
2024-03-21 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act of 2023
2024-03-21 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor
NAY
Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.
2024-03-21 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act of 2023
2024-03-21 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor
NAY
Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.
2024-03-21 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act of 2023
2024-03-21 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor
NAY
Denouncing the harmful, anti-American energy policies of the Biden administration, and for other purposes.
2024-03-21 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1023) to repeal section 134 of the Clean Air Act, relating to the greenhouse gas reduction fund; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1121) to prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6009) to require the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw the proposed rule relating to fluid mineral leases and leasing process, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 86) expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 987) denouncing the harmful, anti-American energy policies of the Biden administration, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R 7023) to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to codify certain regulatory provisions relating to nationwide permits for dredged or fill material, and for other purposes.
2024-03-20 · Passed · Government & Democracy
NAY
Restoring American Energy Dominance Act
2024-03-20 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
NAY
Restoring American Energy Dominance Act
2024-03-20 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
2024-03-19 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade
YEA
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
2024-03-13 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Economy & Labor

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