Rosa L. DeLauro
Democrat · CT-3 · U.S. House
CT-3 — U.S. House
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Bio
Rosa Luisa DeLauro is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes most of its suburbs. DeLauro has been the dean of Connecticut's congressional delegation since 2013 upon the retirement of Senator Joe Lieberman.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 35.7 years
- First took office
- 1991 (18 terms)
- Seniority
- 8 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 83
- New Haven, CT · 203-562-3718
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
- $1.1M – $5.3M
- Liabilities
- $350k – $700k
- Net worth
- $416k – $5.0M
- Since 2019
- +$149k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 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
Rosa L. DeLauro'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
Rosa L. DeLauro (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where DeLaurosits 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
Most and least aligned members
Treating DeLauro'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
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