Jamie Raskin

Democrat · MD-8 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

MD-8 — U.S. House

Safe D 99%

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Bio

Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. The district previously included portions of Montgomery County, a suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. Since redistricting in 2022, Raskin's district encompasses much of Montgomery County and a sliver of Prince George's County.

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Record of service

In office: 9.7 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 171 of 439 by time served
Age: 63

District offices

Rockville, MD · 301-354-1000

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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

$3.5M

2020

$7.0M

2021

$1.1M

2022

$2.3M

2023

$2.3M

2024

$3.4M

2025

$12.7M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $8.7M – $22.8M
Liabilities: $1.0M – $5.0M
Net worth: $3.7M – $21.8M
Since 2019: +$9.2M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 138 assets reported

Vanguard Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fd Admiral Shs (VTSAX)$1.0M – $5.0M

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ Dodge & Cox Income Fund - Class X (DOXIX)$500k – $1.0M

Vanguard Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Developed Markets Index Admiral (VTMGX)$500k – $1.0M

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund I$250k – $500k

Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plan ⇒ State Street Equity 500 Index Fund Class K (SSSYX)$250k – $500k

Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plan ⇒ William Blair Large Cap Growth CIT 5$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB)$250k – $500k

Sarah B Raskin Duke 401K ⇒ Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund (VTHRX)$250k – $500k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ DFA Large Cap International Portfolio (DFALX)$250k – $500k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF (IWY)$250k – $500k

Sarah Bloom Raskin Trustee, GST UA Arlene Bloom IRR TR U/T/A ⇒ Morgan Stanley Inherited Br$250k – $500k

Transamerica - Variable Annuity ⇒ Equity Index$250k – $500k

Transamerica - Variable Annuity ⇒ Mid-Cap Index$250k – $500k

Bank of America, N.A. - Checking$100k – $250k

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ CREF Stock Account - R2 (QCSTPX)$100k – $250k

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ Harbor Capital Appreciation Fund Insti Cl (HACA$100k – $250k

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ MFS Mid Cap Value Fund Class R6 (MVCKX)$100k – $250k

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ TIAA Real Estate Account (QREARX)$100k – $250k

American University Defined Contribution ⇒ TIAA Traditional$100k – $250k

American University Tax Deferred Annuity ⇒ TIAA Traditional$100k – $250k

Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plan ⇒ T. Rowe Price U.S. Mid-Cap Val Eq Tr-D$100k – $250k

Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plan ⇒ T.Rowe Price Institutional Small-Cap Stock Fund (T$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Federated Hermes Prime Cash Obligations Fund Wealth S$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ iShares Russell 1000 Growth Fund (IWF)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Russell 1000 Value ETF (VONV)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND)$100k – $250k

Morgan Stanley Inherited Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Wellington Fund Vanguard Short-Term Tax Exem$100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)$100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ iShares Russell Top 200 Value ETF (IWX)$100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares $100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin IRA I/M (2701) ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO)$100k – $250k

Sarah B Raskin TOD I/M (2601) ⇒ Small Cap Growth Fund Class A (CGOAX)$100k – $250k

Sarah Bloom Raskin Trustee, GST UA Arlene Bloom IRR TR U/T/A ⇒ Morgan Stanley Inherited Br$100k – $250k

Vanguard Brokerage ⇒ Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares (VEMAX)$100k – $250k

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+0.71

Healthcare

D+0.77

Immigration & Border

D+0.86

Guns

D+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.74

Environment & Energy

D+0.84

Crime & Policing

D+0.64

Defense & Veterans

D+0.31

Economy & Labor

D+0.63

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.28

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.92

Education

D+0.76

Government & Democracy

D+0.86

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.53

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

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

Democratic Party

95%Closest

Green Party

90%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

86%

Communist Party USA

85%

Libertarian Party

55%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Jamie Raskin (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 Raskinsits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on the JudiciaryRanking Membercenter · 44 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Raskin'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.

Most aligned

Least aligned

Recent notable votes

YEA

Ratepayer Protection Act

2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy

YEA

Retire through Ownership Act

2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal

YEA

Retire through Ownership Act

2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal

NAY

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".

2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy

YEA

Water Resources Development Act of 2026

2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor

NAY

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9576) to establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10326) to enhance information-sharing capabilities between Federal law enforcement and State agencies to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud in certain Federal programs, and to protect individual privacy; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 210) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 213) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision''; and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 5334) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

YEA

Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.

2026-09-15 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans, Government & Democracy

YEA

Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act

2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy

YEA

Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy

YEA

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025

2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor

YEA

Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act

2026-09-15 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Crime & Policing

NAY

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

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Jamie Raskin

MD-8 — U.S. House

Bio

Record of service

Reported net worth

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

Issue profile

How they score against the parties

On the political map

Do you vote like Raskin?

Caucuses & committees

Caucuses

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Most aligned

Least aligned

Recent notable votes

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