James A. Himes
Democrat · CT-4 · U.S. House
CT-4 — U.S. House
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Bio
James Andrew Himes is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. Himes is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.7 years
- First took office
- 2009 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 69 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Stamford, CT · 203-353-9400
- Bridgeport, CT · 203-333-6600
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
- $6.1M – $22.4M
- Liabilities
- $610k – $1.3M
- Net worth
- $4.8M – $21.8M
- Since 2019
- +$6.6M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 28 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
James A. Himes'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
James A. Himes (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Himessits 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
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Himes'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
Rep. Jim Himes says the "the Iranians now, in some sense, control what happens on Election Day"Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that as President Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart talks, "the Iranians now, in some sense, control what happens on Election …
CBS News · September 27, 2026
Transcript: Rep. Jim Himes on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sept. 27, 2026The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 27, 2026.
CBS News · September 27, 2026
"Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" guests for Sept. 27, 2026This week's guests include Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes and Alexander Yui, Taiwan's representative to the U.S.
CBS News · September 25, 2026
Beaten-down reps make futile Trump admission as they flee DCWASHINGTON — Will President Donald Trump be more empowered now that Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the U.S. House of Representatives out of session until after November’s elections? Not necessarily, according to congressional Democrats who are bracing for what …
Raw Story · September 19, 2026
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