William R. Keating
Democrat · MA-9 · U.S. House
MA-9 — U.S. House
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Bio
William Richard Keating is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 2011, representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district until redistricting. Keating's district includes Cape Cod and most of the South Coast. He raised his profile advocating for criminal justice issues in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court from 1977 to 1999 before becoming district attorney of Norfolk County, where he served three terms before being elected to Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- First took office
- 2011 (8 terms)
- Seniority
- 85 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 74
- New Bedford, MA · 508-999-6462
- Plymouth, MA · 508-746-9000
- Hyannis, MA · 508-771-6868
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
- $1.7M – $5.1M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.7M – $5.1M
- Since 2019
- +$945k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 104 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
William R. Keating'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
William R. Keating (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
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Most and least aligned members
Treating Keating'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
House Democrats ready oversight of Trump’s Balkans policyThe News Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Europe panel will release a report on Tuesday laying the groundwork for oversight of the Trump administration’s Balkans policy should their party win a majority. The report by Rep. Bill Keating of Ma…
Biztoc.com · September 15, 2026- Meeks, Keating Lead Dems in Letter to Rubio on Politicization of Counter Terrorism
Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Bill Keating, Ranking Member of the Europe Subcommittee, led Democrats today in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising concerns that the State Department i…
Globalsecurity.org · July 16, 2026 
Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., on U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boatsNPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Rep. Bill Keating of Massachusetts about continued U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in Pacific and Caribbean waters.
NPR · May 8, 2026
86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With TrumpIn a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution …
The New Republic · November 21, 2025
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