Mark Kelly

Democrat · AZ · U.S. Senate

Bio

Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician and a retired astronaut and naval officer. He is the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Record of service

In office: 5.8 years
First took office: 2020 (2 terms)
Seniority: 81 of 100 by time served
Age: 62
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

District offices

Phoenix, AZ · 602-671-7901
Tucson, AZ · 520-475-5177

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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

2022

−$158k

Most recent filing (2022)

Assets: $150k – $350k
Liabilities: $265k – $550k
Net worth: −$400k – $85k

Largest holdings in the 2022 filing · 2 assets reported

Glendale Fondue Restaurant Holdings ⇒ The Melting Pot Restaurant, 45% Interest$100k – $250k

Asset Owner Value of Asset Income Type(s) Income Current Year to Filing Income Preceding Y$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

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.41

Healthcare

D+0.79

Immigration & Border

D+0.70

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

—

Environment & Energy

D+0.92

Crime & Policing

D+0.30

Defense & Veterans

D+0.16

Economy & Labor

D+0.76

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.61

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.99

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.73

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.91

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

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

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

86%

Communist Party USA

85%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Mark Kelly (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 Kellysits 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 Committeecenter · 20 members
Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
Airland (Ranking Member)Emerging Threats and Capabilities Strategic Forces
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 18 members
Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety (Ranking Member)Transportation and Infrastructure Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife

Most and least aligned members

Treating Kelly'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.