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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 90 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 57
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- 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
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
- $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)
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
John Fetterman'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
John Fetterman (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europecenter · 9 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- John Fetterman favored over PA's Republican senator, new poll findsYahoo Entertainment · Yesterday
Maverick Democrat surges with Republicans as his own party turns on him, stoking talk of GOP switchJohn Fetterman now holds a 73% favorability among Pennsylvania Republicans, surpassing Dave McCormick's 63%, as party switch speculation grows.
Fox News · August 26, 2026- Maverick Democrat surges with Republicans as his own party turns on him, stoking talk of GOP switch
John Fetterman now holds a 73% favorability among Pennsylvania Republicans, surpassing Dave McCormick's 63%, as party switch speculation grows.
Fox News · August 26, 2026 - Could Fetterman Jump Ship? GOP Welcomes Senator As His Favorability Plummets Among Dems
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman might want to trade in his black hoodie for an elephant badge if he wants to keep his seat in the Senate: New polling suggests that he could find friendlier terrain on the Republican side of the aisle than among the…
Freerepublic.com · August 26, 2026
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