Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democrat · NM-3 · U.S. House
NM-3 — U.S. House
Safe D 96%Teresa Leger Fernandez is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Teresa Leger Fernández vs. Martin Zamora.
Bio
Teresa Isabel Leger Fernández is an American attorney and politician representing New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2021.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 266 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Gallup, NM · 505-551-4696
- Santa Fe, NM · 505-428-4680
- Las Vegas, NM · 505-570-7558
- Clovis, NM · 505-428-4680
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 – $2.5M
- Liabilities
- $375k – $815k
- Net worth
- $297k – $2.2M
- Since 2021
- −$842k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 15 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
Teresa Leger Fernandez'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
Teresa Leger Fernandez (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 Fernandezsits 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.
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Fernandez'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
James Comer Tells Dem Rep Point-Blank She’s ‘Mad’ Because Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Exonerated Trump’Rep. James Comer told Democratic New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez on Wednesday that she is "mad" that she "exonerated" President Donald Trump.
The Daily Caller · September 3, 2025
House GOP Has 'Shut Down Congress' to Avoid Voting on Epstein FilesRepublicans on the House Rules Committee have ground business in the chamber to a halt to avoid having to vote on Democratic amendments calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.For weeks now, Republicans in Congress, facing pressure from the White…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2025
Republicans just blocked a vote on the release of the Epstein files before it could happenThe results of a House Rules Committee hearing on Monday are sure to upset some of the GOP base.Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) put forward an amendment from fellow Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) that would have continued the congressional saga of the infamou…
TheBlaze · July 15, 2025- Exclusive—As leftists set to riot Saturday, threats abound: ‘Get ready, f***wads!’ (New Mexico)
As Dems are set to descent upon American streets to attack Trump and “fight back,” including in New Mexico through agitating “Hands Off” protests organized by a rogue group called “Indivisible,” more threats pour in targeting the New Mexico Republican Party, …
Freerepublic.com · April 5, 2025
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