Lateefah Simon
Democrat · CA-12 · U.S. House
CA-12 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Lateefah Simon is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Nominees are not yet set. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Lateefah Aaliyah Simon is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first member of Congress known to be born legally blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern United States.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 372 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 49
- Oakland, CA · 510-763-0370
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
- $7k – $105k
- Liabilities
- $35k – $80k
- Net worth
- −$73k – $70k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 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
Lateefah Simon'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
Lateefah Simon (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.
Do you vote like Simon?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Simonsits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 26 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Simon'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
- California Gets 2 Muslim Congresswomen
On the prior anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, Rep. Lateefah Simon, the 4th Muslim in Congress, joined the prior 3 Muslims, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Andre Carson, in sponsoring a resolution calling for reparatio…
Freerepublic.com · September 7, 2026 
Declaring Victory in California, Progressive Randy Villegas Aims to Oust GOP Rep. ValadaoProgressive Randy Villegas on Tuesday declared victory in a primary race for California's new 22nd Congressional District, a key part of Democratic efforts to combat President Donald Trump's attempt to maintain GOP control of Congress by rigging maps.Californ…
Common Dreams · June 9, 2026
Tlaib Leads Dems Decrying Trump Admin Failure to Protect US Citizens Abducted From Gaza FlotillaCongresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 18 other House Democrats on Tuesday condemned the US State Department's failure to protect 14 Americans aboard the latest humanitarian aid convoy seized by Israeli forces en route to Gaza, as well as the agency's th…
Common Dreams · May 5, 2026
After Another Boat Bombing, House Progressives Demand End to 'Donroe Doctrine'With the death toll from President Donald Trump's boat bombings of alleged drug traffickers now at 130 after a Monday strike, a pair of progressive congresswomen on Tuesday called for ending the Monroe Doctrine and establishing a "New Good Neighbor" policy to…
Common Dreams · February 10, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.