Senator, Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democrat. In Congress since 2007. Age 71. Term ends January 2031.
Not on the 2026 ballot. The seat is next up in 2030.
Raised: campaign receipts in the 2019-2024 term, from FEC filings. Stock trades: every trade disclosed on a periodic report, ranked against the Senate. Floor votes: the roll calls Curia has recorded for Whitehouse on the bills it reads in plain language, including rolls they missed. Bills written: measures Whitehouse sponsored in the 119th Congress. The median is the middle sitting member of the Senate. The Senate has no median for money raised: each senator's campaign covers a different window.
Campaign money
Receipts in the 2019-2024 term
- Small donors
- 20%$1.4M
- Large donors
- 42%$2.9M
- Bundled
- 3%$0.2M
- PACs
- 14%$0.9M
- Other
- 21%$1.4M
This campaign itemizes every gift, so small donors are counted from the FEC's breakdown of contributions by size: gifts of $200 and under.
- The median senatorShare raised from small donors
- 19%
- PAC and bundled moneyFrom every organization on file
- $1.1M
Stock trades
Disclosed on periodic reports, by year
- Trades in Information TechnologyThe sector traded most
- 145
- Assets disclosedOn the 2025 annual filing
- $12M to $34M
Votes
Floor votes on the bills Curia reads, newest first
Bills written
As sponsor in the 119th Congress, latest step first
S. 5486
In committee, Sep 23, 2026
Issues
With Democratic voters on 7 of 8 polled measures
Cosponsored or voted for
- 6 of 10
- 2 of 6
- 1 of 5
- 6 of 9
- 2 of 5
- 0 of 7
The polled measures are the key bills behind the issues Americans care about most, where a poll shows what each party’s voters want. A row counts Whitehouse’s floor vote where one exists and cosponsorship otherwise, on the measures the Senate can act on. No recorded action is not opposition. Each issue opens in the Issues lens with every bill and how both parties split.
Whitehouse among the Senate
Whitehouse votes further left than 72% of the Senate.
Source: DW-NOMINATE, Voteview at UCLA, 119th Congress
Each mark is one of the 100 senators sitting today, placed by how often they vote with each other rather than by anything we think of them. DW-NOMINATE, the standard academic measure, computed by Voteview at UCLA over the 119th Congress and read here as of August 2026. It is built only from recorded votes: 852 of them for Whitehouse. It says who votes together, not who is right.
Committees
In the 119th Congress
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics ControlChairman
- Budget
- Environment and Public WorksRanking Member
- Finance
Voting in Rhode Island
General election
November 3, 2026
Register 30 days before the election.
Reach Whitehouse’s office
- Office phone202-224-2921
- Email the officeEmail Whitehouse
- Washington office530 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
A staffed line and the official contact form; members do not publish direct numbers.
Cosponsored or voted for 7 of the 8 measures their own party’s voters want.
How the grade works, and where everyone stands →CCosponsored or voted for 7 of the 8 measures their own party’s voters want.
How the grade works, and where everyone stands →Curia grade
3 of 6
Reforms Whitehouse cosponsored, of the 6 with a current bill
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Campaign money
Raised, 2019-2024 term
$6.8M
- Cash on handAt the end of the 2019-2024 term
- $1.3M
20% of the money Whitehouse raised came from small donors.
- Small donors
- 20%
- $1.4M
- Large donors
- 42%
- $2.9M
- Bundled
- 3%
- $0.2M
- PACs
- 14%
- $0.9M
- Other
- 21%
- $1.4M
This campaign itemizes every gift, so small donors are counted from the FEC's breakdown of contributions by size: gifts of $200 and under.
Everything that is not small-donor, large-donor, or PAC money. Mostly money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as joint fundraising committees, which report their own donors to the FEC.
Total Other
$1.4M21% of receipts
- Transfers from joint fundraising and other authorized committees
- 21%$1.4M
- Self-funding
- 0%$0
- Party committee money
- 0%$0
- Refunds, offsets, miscellaneous
- 0%$6K
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019-2024 term. “Small” means contributions from donors who gave $200 or less in total, which the FEC does not require to be itemized.
This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.
Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans and other money in its base, and reads lower than figures that divide only by individual money.
FEC filings read October 31, 2026.
Against the Senate median
- Small-donor share
- 20%vs 19% Senate median
- PAC share
- 14%vs 13% Senate median
PACs and bundled gifts
2019-2024 term, largest first.
- From other members’ leadership PACs
From the PACs of 37 other members
$293K
An organization reaches a member two ways. Its own PAC writes a direct check. And it bundles: it gathers individual donations from its supporters and routes them through its conduit. Both count here as one “organized” total. The bundled part is already inside the individual giving shown in the funding mix above. Here it is regrouped by the organization that gathered it, so you can see who did the organizing.
Money an organization gave through its PAC or bundled from its people to Whitehouse’s campaign, the 2019-2024 term, largest first. Showing the top 15 of 161 organizations with a stake. Leadership PACs are the personal PACs colleagues use to build support. Source: FEC filings, as of October 2026.
Industries
Organized money, by the industry of the group that gave it
$1.1Morganized, every industry below
- Leadership & Ideological36%$400K
- Labor20%$227K
- Pro-Israel20%$223K
- Health & Pharma4%$43K
- Law & Lobbying3%$33K
Each organization is grouped by industry from its FEC name, which is approximate. This is the same organized money as the list above, regrouped by industry.
PAC figures are contributions to Whitehouse’s campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee’s name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.
Outside spending
- Roosevelt Society Action$83K$83K
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Whitehouse, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Whitehouse. Whether a dollar supported or opposed Whitehouse is the group’s own filing, never our reading.
The colour names the side the money helps: spending to elect Whitehouse helps Whitehouse’s party, and spending to defeat Whitehouse helps the other side. The totals cover every group that spent; the list shows the largest.
Trips paid by others
Since 2023
- Apr 8, 2026, staffCambridge, Massachusetts
Paid by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Feb 17, 2026, staffMidland, Texas
Sponsor not named on the filing
- Nov 13, 2025, staffMiami, Florida | Belem, Brazil
Paid by The Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute
- Nov 13, 2025, staffBelem, Brazil
Paid by The Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute
- Nov 13, 2025, WhitehouseBelem, Brazil
Paid by The Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute
Travel a private sponsor paid for, filed by Whitehouse’s office with the House or Senate ethics office, by Whitehouse or by staff. Newest first.
Dark money disclosure
84%
Support for the question asked
Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Voters asked: A law that requires all organizations that spend money on federal campaigns to disclose their major donors and requires online political ads to say who paid for them
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Stock trades
More active than 99% of the Senate.
Buys vs. sells
51% bought · 49% sold
Disclosed trades
832
ranked 2 of 100
Filed late
6%
47 past the 45-day window
Est. volume
$12.7M
midpoint estimate
Periodic transaction reports, which the STOCK Act asks for within 45 days of most trades in individual stocks and bonds. Trades in qualifying funds are reported only once a year, on the annual disclosure, and are not counted here. Filed late counts trades reported more than 45 days after the trade.
Trades by year
Disclosed on periodic reports, by the year of the trade
Source: House Clerk and Senate periodic transaction reports
Sectors
- Information Technology17%145
- Health Care15%128
- Consumer Discretionary15%123
Each trade is counted once, in its company’s sector. Counts are exact; disclosed amounts are ranges, so no dollar totals are shown by sector.
Committee overlap
Finance unless marked · Sold unless marked
An overlap of duty and holding, matched to the committees Whitehouse sat on when each trade was made, from dated rosters that begin in January 2017. It is not proof that either was traded on. Only Whitehouse’s own single-stock trades are shown; funds and family-member trades are excluded.
Disclosed trades
Some reports filed on paper are not read here yet, so the House Clerk’s and the Senate’s own indexes are the complete record. Amounts are ranges, never exact; every row links to the official filing. A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.
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Whitehouse's disclosed stock-trading record: how many trades, how much volume, and whether any fall in an industry their committees oversee.
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Income beyond salary
Each figure is at least what the forms allow.
Average a year
$263,556
13 of 19 years counted
Latest year, 2025
$432,324
Median member, a year
$43,061
of 485 members
By year
The least each year’s forms allow, 2007 to 2025
Each column is one counted year, drawn at its floor: the smallest amount the form allows, so the true figure is this much or more. The mint column is the latest counted year. A dashed outline is a year in office that is not counted, never a zero.
Income by kind
Each kind’s share of the least the forms allow, 2013 to 2025.
- Investment income100%$3,423,728
- Other<1%$2,500
Outside pay is read line by line from the form and grouped by the filer’s own type word, to the dollar. Investment income is reported in ranges, so its row counts the smallest amount each range allows: the true figure is this much or more. Only counted years enter. A kind with nothing reported has no row. Other includes salary and wages from a job outside Congress, never the congressional salary. Social Security is its own kind and is drawn in Other.
Who paid
The exact amounts printed on the forms, added across the years each payer appears.
- Roger Williams University$2,500
One year, 2014, salary
Amounts are the exact figures printed on counted forms, added across the years each payer appears. Spelling variants of one payer are merged into a single name. Investment income is reported in ranges with no payer, so it does not appear here. A spouse’s or dependent’s pay is never counted, even where the form prints an amount.
Net worth
Disclosed assets and liabilities, each as the range Whitehouse’s 2025 annual filing allows, never netted.
Disclosed assets
$12M to $34M
as ranges on 283 line items, plus 14 without a dollar value
Disclosed liabilities
$350K to $850K
as ranges on 4 line items
The average adds each counted year’s smallest possible amount beyond salary and divides by the years counted. A year not counted is left out, never counted as zero. Outside pay is exact; investment income is reported in ranges and counts at least its lowest end. The typical member is the median of the 485 members’ own yearly averages. Joint, spouse and dependent holdings stay combined as filed. Tax-deferred accounts alone give no income amount.
The annual rate set by law for the latest year in office: $174,000. A first year is paid by days, so it is smaller. Salary is separate from every figure beyond it.
Each link opens the filing on the official site, a year at a time.
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Annual financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate; salary from the Congressional Research Service (97-1011).
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The votes Whitehouse cast on the bills this site reads and writes up, not every roll call the chamber took. A position is the member’s own recorded vote on that bill’s passage. Broke with party marks a vote cast against the majority of Whitehouse’s own party; it is never set for a vote of present, a missed vote, an independent, or a party evenly split. Each party’s bar fills with the share of its members who voted yea, beside its yea and nay count. A not voting mark means Whitehouse was not recorded on that roll call. Members miss votes for many reasons, from travel to illness to leadership duties.
House Clerk and Senate roll call records, joined to the bills this site decodes. Every row opens to a plain summary of the bill, a link to where every member stood, and the bill on Congress.gov.
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Where Whitehouse broke with their party on a tracked vote. Pick a vote from the five most recent.
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Measures Whitehouse sponsored
Introduced in the 119th Congress, February 2025 to September 2026, latest stage date first.
Referred unless marked
- S. 5486
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Sep 23, 2026
The sponsor is the member who introduced the measure, a different act from cosponsoring somebody else’s. A resolution that its chamber, or both chambers, agreed to has finished its process and is filed under Adopted.
Where the stage and place are the same for the rows shown, a row gives the number of members listed as cosponsors of the measure in the same bulk data instead.
The stage on each measure is the furthest point the record states it reached, and the date is when it reached it. A measure that stops at a stage has not necessarily ended: text is regularly folded into another vehicle that moves on under a different number, and the record against this number simply stops being written. Nothing here counts, names or ranks what did not happen.
Committee stages come from dated committee activities. Passage, presentation and veto stages come from the measure’s own actions; law records identify enactment. The date beside the bill number belongs to the stage shown below.
Source: govinfo BILLSTATUS bulk data for the 119th Congress, as of 2026-10-31, with the sponsor of record from the same bulk data and committee names from the House and Senate committee rosters. Download this list as JSON, the sponsorship and stage record, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Lobbying on Whitehouse’s bills
48 of 103 bills named
Lobbying reports (LD-2) whose issue text names one of Whitehouse’s bills by number, counted as a floor: a report may describe a bill without its number. Most named first. Source: the Senate lobbying disclosure database.
Sponsored and cosponsored
555 measures in the 119th Congress: 103 sponsored, 452 cosponsored.
Cosponsoring puts a member’s name on a text. It is a public position, not a vote, and not a promise of one.
Most cosponsorships are signed when the measure is introduced; a row says so only when the name was added later, or withdrawn.
A policy area that does not appear here is one Whitehouse has not put a name on in this Congress. That is silence, not opposition, and it is left blank rather than counted.
The Library of Congress files each measure under one policy area; the shares cover the 555 of 555 measures on this record that carry one. It adds finer legislative subjects to only part of the corpus: the subjects cover 162 of 555, and show the 10 most common of 373.
Source: govinfo BILLSTATUS bulk data for the 119th Congress, rows from January 7, 2025 to October 15, 2026. Archives downloaded October 31, 2026. Newest source record by type: HCONRES 2026-10-30; HJRES 2026-10-31; HR 2026-10-31; HRES 2026-10-31; S 2026-10-31; SCONRES 2026-10-29; SJRES 2026-10-29; SRES 2026-10-31.
The 10 most common of 373 subjects, on the 162 of 555 measures the Library labels in detail.
- Commemorative events and holidays48
- Congressional oversight33
- Congressional tributes33
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures19
- Government information and archives18
- Health care coverage and access13
- Members of Congress13
- State and local government operations13
- Civil actions and liability11
- Government studies and investigations11
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One reform at a time
Where Whitehouse stands on the six reforms with a current bill. Prior matching cosponsorships are included.
Each card pairs a single reform with what Whitehouse's own party's voters say about it. A filled dot means Whitehouse cosponsored a bill. An open dot means no public position, which is not a vote against.
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Whitehouse on the issues
Cosponsored or voted for
Cosponsored unless marked
- Not on record
Extend ACA Subsidies Three Years
Extends the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits through 2028. Monthly premiums stay lower for people who buy their own coverage on the marketplace.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 2%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members. - Not on record
Fund HSAs Instead of Subsidies
The Senate Republicans' alternative. Instead of subsidizing insurers, the government puts cash into people's Health Savings Accounts, plus cost-sharing help, for those on bronze, catastrophic, and silver plans.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 0%, Republicans 4%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members. Make ACA Subsidies Permanent
Makes the enhanced ACA premium tax credits permanent. More people qualify for marketplace subsidies, and the subsidies stay larger, for good.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 98%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.Rein In Drug Middlemen
Reins in the pharmacy benefit managers who sit between drugmakers and pharmacies. It curbs tactics like “spread pricing,” requires PBMs to pass manufacturer rebates through to health plans, and unlinks their pay from a drug's list price.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 27%, Republicans 30%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.Benchmark Drug Prices to Other Countries
Compares brand-name drug prices against what five peer countries pay. If a U.S. price is judged “excessive,” the government strips the drug's market exclusivity and licenses generic competitors to force the price down.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 16%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.
1 to 5 of 102 more measures exist only in the House, so they are not shown here.
How Whitehouse has acted on the key bills behind the issues Americans care about most: a floor vote where one exists, and cosponsorship otherwise. Only measures the Senate can act on are counted. Open an issue to see each bill, Whitehouse’s position on it and how both parties split. No recorded action is not opposition.
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Measures a majority of Democratic voters want and Whitehouse has not cosponsored or voted for; pick one.
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Whitehouse on reform
Cosponsored 3 of the 6 reforms with a current bill. The seventh has no bill this Congress and is not counted. Not on record is not opposition.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 84%, Republicans 75%, Independents 81%
Verasight for the Brennan Center for Justice (an advocacy organization), Apr-May 2026
Voters asked: A constitutional amendment establishing that the federal and state governments may regulate and limit contributions to campaigns and campaign spending, including by placing greater limits on corporations than on individuals
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 88%, Republicans 85%, Independents 84%
Verasight for the Brennan Center for Justice (an advocacy organization), Apr-May 2026
Voters asked: A law that requires all organizations that spend money on federal campaigns to disclose their major donors and requires online political ads to say who paid for them
- Not on record
Open Primaries
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 79%, Republicans 65%, Independents 70%Emerson College / RealClear, commissioned by Unite America (an advocacy organization), Jan 2026
Voters asked: States should be required to hold open primaries where all voters can participate regardless of party registration.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 76%, Republicans 57%, Independents 72%
Noble Predictive Insights for Common Cause (an advocacy organization), Sept 2025
Voters asked: Do you think it is good or bad for the country when one political party controls how voting districts are drawn?
- Not on record
Ban Stock Trading
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 88%, Republicans 87%, Independents 81%U. of Maryland PPC, May 2023
Voters asked: Prohibit Members of Congress (in the House and Senate) and the family that lives with them, from trading stocks in individual companies. They would still be allowed to buy or sell shares of mutual funds or index funds that include stocks in numerous companies. In conclusion, do you favor or oppose this proposal?
- Not on record
Extend Cool-Off Period
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 67%, Republicans 65%, Independents not reportedU. of Maryland PPC, June 2022
Voters asked: Extend the period former Members of Congress must wait before lobbying Congress to five years.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 74%, Republicans 71%, Independents not reported
U. of Maryland PPC, June 2022
Voters asked: Ban former senior Executive Branch officials from lobbying on behalf of a foreign government for the rest of their life.
Each marked row names what the member did: sponsored or cosponsored a bill carrying the reform, signed a discharge petition to force one to the floor, or cosponsored a prior version in a previous Congress while still serving today. Not on record means there is no documented signal. The member may still support or oppose; we have no evidence either way. Floor votes are not yet wired in, so nobody is marked Opposes.
Several reforms have bills carried almost entirely by one party. That makes the headline percentage a measure of cosponsorship on these specific bills, not a measure of underlying agreement with the reform. A 0% figure for one party often means “has not cosponsored this vehicle,” not “opposes the reform.”
A matching prior Congress cosponsorship also counts. No documented cosponsorship is not opposition.
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One reform at a time
Where Whitehouse stands on the six reforms with a current bill. Prior matching cosponsorships are included.
Each card pairs a single reform with what Whitehouse's own party's voters say about it. A filled dot means Whitehouse cosponsored a bill. An open dot means no public position, which is not a vote against.
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