Hillary J. Scholten

Democrat · MI-3 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

MI-3 — U.S. House

Likely D 95%

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Bio

Hillary Jeanne Scholten is an American politician and attorney who has served as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Her district, which was once represented by former President Gerald Ford, is based in Grand Rapids and includes much of the urban core of West Michigan. Before her election, Scholten worked as an attorney for the Department of Justice and in private practice.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 320 of 437 by time served
Age: 44

District offices

Grand Rapids, MI · 616-451-8383

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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

2019

$8k

2022

$54k

2023

$54k

2024

$422k

2025

$2k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $19k – $285k
Liabilities: $100k – $200k
Net worth: −$181k – $185k
Since 2019: −$6k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 19 assets reported

Lake Michigan Credit Union$1k – $15k

Lake Michigan Credit Union - DC #1$1k – $15k

Lake Michigan Credit Union - DC #2$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF (IWN)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Russell Mid-cap Value ETF (IWS)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 1 ⇒ iShares Russell Midcap Growth ETF (IWP)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF (IWO)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF (IWN)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell Mid-cap Value ETF (IWS)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 2 ⇒ iShares Russell Midcap Growth ETF (IWP)$1k – $15k

Mutual of America - Michigan Advocacy Program 403(b) Plan ⇒ Retirement 2035 Fund (MURJX)$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

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.18

Healthcare

D+0.71

Immigration & Border

D+0.33

Guns

D+0.76

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.74

Crime & Policing

D+0.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.12

Economy & Labor

D+0.47

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.30

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.83

Education

D+0.84

Government & Democracy

D+0.56

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.00

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

Hillary J. Scholten's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

87%Closest

Green Party

78%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

74%

Communist Party USA

73%

Libertarian Party

58%

Republican Party

45%

On the political map

Hillary J. Scholten (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Scholtensits 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
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Scholten'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.