Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democrat · DE · U.S. Senate
Bio
Lisa LaTrelle Blunt Rochester is an American politician and former management consultant serving as the junior United States senator from Delaware, a seat she has held since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2025. Blunt Rochester is the first woman and first African American to represent Delaware in both chambers of Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- Chambers
- House 8y, Senate 1.7y
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 69 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Georgetown, DE · 302-856-7690
- Dover, DE · 302-674-3308
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
- $4.4M – $12.4M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $3.9M – $12.2M
- Since 2019
- −$321k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 36 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
Lisa Blunt Rochester'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
Lisa Blunt Rochester (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 Rochester?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Rochestersits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 18 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Rochester'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
- Obama marvels at Democrats' Senate chances
Former president Barack Obama expressed surprise at Democrats' expanding midterm map at a private fundraiser Wednesday night, but warned donors not to get complacent about the party's chances, according to excerpts provided to The Washington Post."There are s…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 8, 2026 
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The New Republic · October 1, 2026
The Surprising Issue Dividing Senate Dems Right NowYou’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonThe surprising issue dividing Senate Dems right nowWhile Americans worry about sky…
The New Republic · September 18, 2026
Dem senator presses OpenAI, Anthropic for answers in AI hacking probeRevelations of OpenAI and Anthropic artificial intelligence agents hacking third parties has drawn the "serious concern" of Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., who is now seeking answers from the two businesses incorporated as public benefit companies (PBC) in…
Biztoc.com · August 6, 2026
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