Mark Pocan
Democrat · WI-2 · U.S. House
WI-2 — U.S. House
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Bio
Mark William Pocan is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since 2013. The district is based in the state capital, Madison. A member of the Democratic Party, Pocan is co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 119 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Madison, WI · 608-258-9800
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
- $1.7M – $6.7M
- Liabilities
- $350k – $750k
- Net worth
- $986k – $6.4M
- Since 2019
- +$4.0M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 12 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
Mark Pocan'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
Mark Pocan (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 Pocansits 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
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pocan'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.
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