Edward J. Markey
Democrat · MA · U.S. Senate
Edward J. Markey is on the ballot. Ed Markey vs. John Deaton.
D +7 points of win probability since January.
Bio
Edward John Markey is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 20 terms as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Before that, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. He has been the dean of Massachusetts's congressional delegation since 2009.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 51.6 years
- Chambers
- House 38.4y, Senate 13.2y
- First took office
- 1975 (23 terms)
- Seniority
- 2 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 80
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Springfield, MA · 413-785-4610
- Boston, MA · 617-565-8519
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
- $3.1M – $9.6M
- Liabilities
- $300k – $600k
- Net worth
- $2.5M – $9.3M
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
Edward J. Markey'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
Edward J. Markey (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Markeysits 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 Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 18 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Markey'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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