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Nydia M. Velázquez

D

Rep. NY-7 · U.S. House · 17 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
82%
82/100 · beats 5% of the House
Votes missed live
18
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
2
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Velázquez sits more conservative than 3% of the House and more liberal than 96%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
93%
Broke with the party on 1 of 14 recent votes where the party had a clear position.
Their positions, in their own words

We link to what Velázquezsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

velazquez.house.gov
D.C. office: 202-225-2361
2302 Rayburn House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$180K
From PACs
35.8%
$65K
From individuals
64%
$116K
Cash on hand
$81K

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • SMALL BUSINESS INVESTOR ALLIANCE PACTrade$6K
  • MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERSLabor$5K
  • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATIONLabor$5K
  • AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$5K
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES 504PACTrade$5K
  • WALMART INC. PAC FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENTCorporate$5K
  • NEA FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATIONLabor$4K
  • GOVEVOLVE PACTrade$4K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Trade43%
  • Labor26%
  • Corporate17%
  • Membership14%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Labor unions$19K
  • Finance & banking$10K
  • Real estate$6K
  • Retail & wholesale$6K
  • Professional services$5K
  • Technology$4K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 25% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Velázquez's campaign has spent $236K across 198 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • AJF STRATEGIES LLC$61K
  • BUSINESS CARD$52K
  • RED HORSE STRATEGIES$30K
  • WINPISINGER & ASSOCIATES, INC.$29K
  • NGP VAN, INC.$25K
  • HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE$12K
Fundraising & event venues
  • THOMAS, DAVIDCHEVY CHASE, MD$555

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Background

Represents New York's 7th district · age 73 · from Yabucoa.

Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented New York's 12th congressional district from 1993 to 2013, prior to redistricting. She chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus from 2009 to 2011. Velázquez is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress.

Before Congress
university teacheradjunct professor
Education
New York UniversityUniversity of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras CampusUniversity of Puerto Rico

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

Stock trades

No periodic transaction reports on file for Velázquez in the current House disclosure index.

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this House seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 7 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Nydia actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Tue 22
in session
Wed 23
in session
Thu 24
in session
Fri 25
in session
Sat 26
weekend
Sun 27
weekend
Mon 28
in session
Tue 29
in session
Wed 30
in session
Thu 1
in session
Fri 2
in session
Sat 3
weekend

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. House Clerk, last 100 roll calls through 16-Sep-2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.