
Rashida Tlaib
Democrat · MI-12 · U.S. House
MI-12 — U.S. House
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Bio
Rashida Harbi Tlaib is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 12th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 210 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 50
- Southfield, MI · 313-203-7540
- Inkster, MI · 313-463-6220
- Detroit, MI · 313-463-6220
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
- $300k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $365k – $800k
- Net worth
- −$500k – $748k
- Since 2019
- +$542k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 33 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
Rashida Tlaib'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
Rashida Tlaib (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Tlaibsits 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
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Tlaib'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
Tlaib seeks to block Israeli defense firm’s Michigan facilityRep. Rashida Tlaib urges Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to stop an Israeli defense company from opening a $5 million facility in Sterling Heights.
Israelnationalnews.com · October 6, 2026
'We Don't Waste Our Time' With Courts, Says Trump, Bragging of Extrajudicial Murders in Pacific and CaribbeanCritics have often described President Donald Trump's campaign of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific—which have taken the lives of at least 234 mostly unknown people—as extrajudicial killings that flout the very basics of due process.On Tuesday, Trump …
Common Dreams · September 23, 2026
Austin Man Shot by ICE Facing Paralysis After Being Refused Medical CareDemocrats in Congress on Monday evening were demanding a full, independent investigation into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's shooting on Sunday of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, as it was reported that he had been held in an ICE detention center with a…
Common Dreams · September 22, 2026
Arab Americans Feel Betrayed After Michigan Grants $1M to Israeli ContractorRep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.”…
Truthout · September 19, 2026
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