John Fetterman

Democrat · PA · U.S. Senate

Bio

John Karl Fetterman is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Pennsylvania, a seat he has held since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2006 to 2019 as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and from 2019 to 2023 as the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.

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Record of service

In office: 3.7 years
First took office: 2023 (1 terms)
Seniority: 90 of 100 by time served
Age: 57
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

District offices

Pittsburgh, PA · 412-803-3501
Erie, PA · 814-453-3010
Harrisburg, PA · 717-782-3951
Wilkes-Barre, PA · 570-820-4088
Philadelphia, PA · 215-241-1090

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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

2022

$1.5M

2023

$1.5M

2024

$1.6M

2025

$1.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $547k – $2.3M
Liabilities: $15k – $50k
Net worth: $497k – $2.3M
Since 2022: −$112k

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+0.88

Healthcare

D+1.00

Immigration & Border

D+0.82

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

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Environment & Energy

D+0.82

Crime & Policing

D+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.40

Economy & Labor

D+0.50

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.10

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.98

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.65

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.85

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

John Fetterman'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

85%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

45%

Republican Party

31%

On the political map

John Fetterman (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 Fettermansits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fetterman'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.