Laura Gillen
Democrat · NY-4 · U.S. House
NY-4 — U.S. House
Likely D 88%Laura Gillen is on the ballot. Laura Gillen vs. Jeanine Driscoll.
Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 408 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 57
- Garden City, NY · 516-739-3008
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
- $672k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $310k – $700k
- Net worth
- −$28k – $1.2M
- Since 2024
- −$33k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 11 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
Laura Gillen'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
Laura Gillen (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 Gillensits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gillen'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
Every Democrat Who Voted Against Impeaching TrumpHouse Democrats launched another Hail Mary bid to impeach President Donald Trump, but the effort was undercut by members of their own party.More than a dozen Democrats joined 213 Republicans in voting “no” Tuesday night. Another 46 Democrats simply voted “pre…
The New Republic · September 16, 2026
Dem Rep. Gillen on if She Wants DSA Nominees to Win: They'll Probably Win, Need to 'Hold Them in Line'On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY) responded to a question on whether she wants the DSA candidates running as Democrats in New York to win their races by saying that they’ll likely win, “But I The post Dem Rep. Gillen o…
Breitbart News · September 5, 2026
Every Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott IsraelOn Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation passed 237–169.The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom A…
The New Republic · September 3, 2026- And There's Always The Bezos Post
Okay I'm listening:Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support Thursday for a centrist initiative aimed at pushing back against the party’s tilt toward democratic socialism. And what is this initiative:Killin is one of the 13 who…
Eschatonblog.com · June 26, 2026
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