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Darrell Issa

RepublicanDarrell Issa

U.S. Representative · California

California's 48th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 48th district

California's 48th district

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How they won their seat

Darrell Issa won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 48) with 59.3% of the vote (213,625 votes).

59.3%
Win share
213,625
Votes for winner
360,290
Total cast
  • Darrell Issa · Republican59.3%
  • Stephen Houlahan · Democrat40.7%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Darrell Issa's record includes legislation on foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like HR 8974 (Development Finance Corporation investment in Venezuela) and HR 7311 (Lebanon Election Integrity and Diaspora Voting Protection Act). Additionally, he has sponsored legislation addressing various domestic matters, including the PEACE Act and the SOIL Act of 2025, with evidence of sponsorship in both international and domestic policy areas. Focus areas (from the record): Foreign Affairs · Domestic Policy · Veterans Affairs · Water Rights · Regulatory Reform Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Issa's legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills in achieving their intended outcomes is not recorded; There is no information on any unlogged work or informal engagements he may have undertaken. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Darrell Issa has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Darrell Issa has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Votes cast
609
Voted yea
460
Voted nay
142
Bills sponsored
373
Committees
9

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 32 YeaJun '25: 8 NayJun '25Jul '25: 25 YeaJul '25: 8 NayJul '25Sep '25: 44 YeaSep '25: 20 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 39 YeaDec '25: 18 NayDec '25Jan '26: 31 YeaJan '26: 16 NayJan '26Feb '26: 22 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 25 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 34 YeaApr '26: 12 NayApr '26May '26: 25 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 9 YeaJul '26: 7 NayJul '26Jun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:463 passed145 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

98.9%
attendance
602 of 609 roll calls7 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

373bills sponsored
2 became law1 passed a chamber1 failed / vetoed90 pending279 awaiting status
013253850Bills2001: 6 awaiting status620012002: 9 awaiting status920022003: 11 awaiting status1120032004: 8 awaiting status820042005: 28 awaiting status2820052006: 5 awaiting status520062007: 19 awaiting status1920072008: 9 awaiting status920082009: 19 awaiting status1920092010: 6 awaiting status620102011: 24 awaiting status2420112012: 11 awaiting status1120122013: 26 awaiting status2620132014: 15 awaiting status1520142015: 16 awaiting status1620152016: 5 awaiting status520162017: 25 awaiting status2520172018: 11 awaiting status1120182021: 19 awaiting status1920212022: 7 awaiting status720222023: 2 became law, 1 failed / vetoed, 24 pending2023: 2 became law, 1 failed / vetoed, 24 pending2023: 2 became law, 1 failed / vetoed, 24 pending2720232024: 18 pending1820242025: 1 passed a chamber, 37 pending2025: 1 passed a chamber, 37 pending3820252026: 11 pending112026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

3%
Votes against own party
16 of 602 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

2%
2 of 94 sponsored bills became law
2 became law1 passed a chamber1 failed / vetoed90 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$3.8M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2026: raised $3.8M2026: spent $1.7M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $918K (36%)36%Large individual (itemized): $941K (36%)36%PAC / committee: $726K (28%)28%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$918K36%
  • Large individual (itemized)$941K36%
  • PAC / committee$726K28%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

373 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,846,841, spent $692,756, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
460
Nay
142
Present
0
Not voting
7

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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