Tammy Duckworth

Democrat · IL · U.S. Senate

Bio

Ladda Tammy Duckworth is an American politician and Army National Guard veteran serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.

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Record of service

In office: 13.7 years
Chambers: House 4y, Senate 9.7y
First took office: 2013 (4 terms)
Seniority: 56 of 100 by time served
Age: 58
Senate class: 3 · junior senator

District offices

Belleville, IL · 618-722-7070
Carbondale, IL · 618-677-7000
Chicago, IL · 312-886-3506
Rock Island, IL · 309-606-7060
Springfield, IL · 217-528-6124

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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

2016

$472k

2017

−$5.6M

2018

−$2.6M

2019

−$2.4M

2020

−$5.3M

2021

−$5.1M

2022

−$1.8M

2023

−$2.0M

2024

−$1.9M

2025

−$1.5M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $674k – $2.5M
Liabilities: $1.1M – $5.2M
Net worth: −$4.5M – $1.5M
Since 2016: −$2.0M

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+0.31

Healthcare

D+0.73

Immigration & Border

D+0.59

Guns

D+0.48

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.91

Environment & Energy

D+0.77

Crime & Policing

D+0.43

Defense & Veterans

D+0.18

Economy & Labor

D+0.56

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.53

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.75

Education

D+0.80

Government & Democracy

D+0.70

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.72

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

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

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

83%

Libertarian Party

60%

Republican Party

36%

On the political map

Tammy Duckworth (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 Duckworthsits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Duckworth'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.