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Karen Bass

Former

Democrat · CA-37 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2019
−$1.1M
2020
−$500k
2021
−$500k
Most recent filing (2021)
Assets
$400k – $850k
Liabilities
$750k – $1.5M
Net worth
−$1.1M – $100k
Since 2019
+$593k
Largest holdings in the 2021 filing · 3 assets reported
TIAA CREF ⇒ TIAA CREF-CREF Stock$250k – $500k
TIAA CREF ⇒ TIAA Traditional Account$100k – $250k
USC Retirement Savings ⇒ USC Retirement Savings 401(a) - Fidelity Magellan$50k – $100k

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

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.68
Healthcare
D+0.73
Immigration & Border
D+0.75
Guns
D+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.87
Environment & Energy
D+0.76
Crime & Policing
D+0.27
Defense & Veterans
D+0.46
Economy & Labor
D+0.59
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.34
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.92
Education
D+0.41
Government & Democracy
D+0.85
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+1.00

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

Karen Bass'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

Karen Bass (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightBass

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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Most and least aligned members

Treating Bass'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

YEA
Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 7776, with an amendment.
2022-12-08 · Passed
YEA
Disaster Assistance for Rural Communities Act
2022-12-08 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor
YEA
Respect for Marriage Act
2022-12-08 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social
YEA
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 8404) to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, and for other purposes.
2022-12-07 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social
YEA
PROTECT Our Children Act of 2022
2022-12-06 · Passed · Crime & Policing
YEA
Patents for Humanity Act of 2022
2022-12-06 · Passed · Economy & Labor
YEA
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2022
2022-12-06 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2022
2022-12-06 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
SBA Cyber Awareness Act
2022-12-06 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Economy & Labor
YEA
One Stop Shop Community Reentry Program Act of 2022
2022-12-01 · Passed · Crime & Policing
YEA
Pregnant Women in Custody Act
2022-12-01 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social, Crime & Policing
YEA
Uyghur Policy Act of 2021
2022-12-01 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Civil Rights & Social

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