Margaret Wood Hassan

Democrat · NH · U.S. Senate

Bio

Margaret Wood Hassan is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017.

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Record of service

In office: 9.7 years
First took office: 2017 (2 terms)
Seniority: 67 of 100 by time served
Age: 68
Senate class: 3 · junior senator

District offices

Berlin, NH · 603-752-6190
Manchester, NH · 603-622-2204
Portsmouth, NH · 603-433-4445
Concord, NH · 603-622-2204

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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

2018

$3.5M

2019

$3.7M

2020

$3.3M

2021

$4.0M

2022

$3.4M

2023

$4.7M

2024

$5.0M

2025

$5.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $3.9M – $8.4M
Liabilities: $350k – $750k
Net worth: $3.1M – $8.1M
Since 2018: +$2.1M

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

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.08

Healthcare

D+0.74

Immigration & Border

D+0.03

Guns

D+0.49

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.40

Environment & Energy

D+0.81

Crime & Policing

R+0.05

Defense & Veterans

D+0.04

Economy & Labor

D+0.54

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.38

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.74

Education

D+0.73

Government & Democracy

D+0.47

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.60

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

Margaret Wood Hassan's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

88%Closest

Green Party

80%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

76%

Communist Party USA

75%

Libertarian Party

62%

Republican Party

45%

On the political map

Margaret Wood Hassan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Hassansits 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

Joint Economic CommitteeRanking Membercenter · 20 members
Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Health Care (Ranking Member)Taxation and IRS Oversight
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Employment and Workplace Safety Primary Health and Retirement Security
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Hassan'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.