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Chrissy Houlahan

U.S. House · PA-6 · Democrats · since 2025

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Biography

Overview

Chrissy Houlahan is a Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district, serving since 2019. She is an engineer and former U.S. Air Force officer who earned her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1989 and a master's degree from MIT in 1994. Before entering Congress, she served three years on active duty in the Air Force, worked in the private sector including as COO of the sportswear company AND1, and later founded and led Springboard Collaborative, a nonprofit focused on early childhood literacy.

Career

Houlahan was the first Democrat to represent a Chester County-based district since before the Civil War, winning her initial election in 2018 with 58.8% of the vote over Republican Greg McCauley. She was reelected in 2020 with 56% and in 2022 with 58% against Republican Guy Ciarrocchi, and again in 2024 with 56% against Neil Young Jr. In 2024, she was one of six Democrats on a bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. In 2025, she was one of six Democratic lawmakers to participate in a video advising servicemembers they can refuse illegal orders.

Prior political experience

Houlahan was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican Greg McCauley with 58.8% of the vote in Pennsylvania's newly redrawn 6th congressional district. The district was redrawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after it threw out the previous congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan Republican gerrymander. She took the Democratic nomination unopposed in 2018. In 2020, she was reelected with over 56% of the vote against John Emmons. In 2022, after an uncontested primary, she won reelection with over 58% against Guy Ciarrocchi. In 2024, she ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 56% against Neil Young Jr.

Biographical material adapted from the Wikipedia article (retrieved April 29, 2026), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ideology

Liberal–Conservative (DW-NOMINATE dim 1)

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119th Congress-0.261

Secondary axis (DW-NOMINATE dim 2)(?)

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+0.221
Source: Voteview DW-NOMINATE · 335 scored votes

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Officeholding history

TermSeatTerm datesTerminationPredecessorSuccessor
4thU.S. House PA-62025–presentIn progressChrissy Houlahan—
3rdU.S. House PA-62023–2025Term endedChrissy HoulahanChrissy Houlahan
2ndU.S. House PA-62021–2023Term endedChrissy HoulahanChrissy Houlahan
1stU.S. House PA-62019–2021Term ended—Chrissy Houlahan

Committee assignments

Current term legislation

Bills sponsored this term10

Bills cosponsored this term10

Elections

YearSeatResultVote shareField
2024U.S. House PA-6Pending56.20%