Val T. Hoyle
Democrat · OR-4 · U.S. House
OR-4 — U.S. House
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Bio
Valerie Anne Hoyle is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district since 2023. Previously, she served as the commissioner of Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries from 2019 to 2023 and as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017, serving as majority leader from 2013 to 2015. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 340 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Eugene, OR · 541-465-6732
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
- $548k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $180k – $450k
- Net worth
- $98k – $1.3M
- Since 2022
- +$516k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 27 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
Val T. Hoyle'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
Val T. Hoyle (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hoylesits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hoyle'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
Progressive Lawmakers Introduce Bill to 'Get Wall Street Out' of Medical Offices Across USThanks to legislation passed in Oregon last year, physicians in the state have stopped corporate takeovers of medical practices—and six Democratic members of Congress on Wednesday introduced a bill to replicate the state law nationwide, arguing, as Sen. Eliza…
Common Dreams · September 16, 2026
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The New Republic · September 11, 2026
Democrat Rep. Val Hoyle Blasts Proposed Oregon Hunting Ban as 'Insane'U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle (D) is blasting an Oregon ballot initiative that would ban hunting and fishing as "insane," suggesting it would "[make] it a felony sex crime to artificially inseminate a cow." The post Democrat Rep. Val Hoyle Blasts Proposed Oregon Huntin…
Breitbart News · June 16, 2026
New Bill Aims to Stop GOP From Funding Trump's Iran War Through 'Backdoor Budget Process'Legislation introduced Thursday in the US House of Representatives would preemptively outlaw congressional Republicans' emerging plan to approve funding for President Donald Trump's illegal and historically unpopular Iran war through the filibuster-proof reco…
Common Dreams · May 1, 2026
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