Daniel Goldman
Democrat Representative of New York's 10th district
Representative
New York, district 10
January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025
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Congresses Served
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House Terms
February 26, 1976 (48 years old)
Birthday
- American attorney and politician
- Heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune
- Served as lead majority counsel in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump and lead counsel to House Managers in Trump’s subsequent impeachment trial
- Among the wealthiest members of Congress with an estimated net worth of up to $253 million
- Raised in a Conservative Jewish family
- Attended Sidwell Friends School and graduated from Yale University with a BA in History and from Stanford Law School with a JD
- Worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, prosecuting Russian organized crime and white-collar crime
- Became a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York
- Served as Senior Advisor and Director of Investigations for the House Intelligence Committee
- Ran for the Democratic nomination for attorney general of New York in 2022 but withdrew
- Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 10th congressional district in 2022
- Introduced seven bills in his first year in Congress
- Committee assignments include the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Homeland Security
- Member of several caucuses including the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Dads Caucus
- Supports increasing the national minimum wage, universal child care, paid family leave, and a public option in healthcare
- Opposes expanding the Supreme Court but supports implementing term limits for Supreme Court Justices
- Supports Israel’s security and a two-state solution, opposes the BDS movement
- Believes in the fundamental right to healthcare and supports Medicare for All
- Supports public–private partnerships to address New York City’s housing crisis
- Married twice and has five children