Maxine Dexter
Democrat · OR-3 · U.S. House
OR-3 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Maxine Dexter is on the ballot. Maxine Dexter vs. Loran Ayles.
Record of service
- In office
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 413 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Portland, OR · 503-231-2300
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
- $2.2M – $4.8M
- Liabilities
- $330k – $700k
- Net worth
- $1.5M – $4.4M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 29 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
Maxine Dexter'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
Maxine Dexter (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 Dextersits 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 Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 25 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Dexter'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
As Trump Announces New Round of Sanctions Against Cuba, Democrats Warn Country Is Being 'Strangled to Death'As the Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions on Cuba's tourism ministry, energy companies, and other entities on Monday, four Democratic members of Congress returned from a trip to the island and described how the oil blockade the US has imp…
Common Dreams · July 14, 2026
'The Call Came From the White House': Trump Aide Secured $620 Million Pentagon Loan for Firm Tied to Don Jr.Three months after Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm took a stake in a small North Carolina rare-earth magnet firm, a Pentagon department tasked with boosting rare-earth manufacturing for national defense purposes expedited a request for a loan worth hu…
Common Dreams · May 28, 2026
White House directly intervened to win $620M deal for company linked to Trump's sonWhen the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.The president’s eldest son said through a spokesperson that he …
Raw Story · May 28, 2026
Economic Pain 'Just Beginning' as Key Index Shows More Inflation From Trump's Iran WarData released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday showed continued upward pressure on prices, caused in large part by President Donald Trump's war with Iran.The Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures wholesale prices paid by businesses, post…
Common Dreams · May 13, 2026
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