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RepublicanDarrell Issa
U.S. Representative · California
California's 48th district
U.S. Representative from California
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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).
- Darrell Issa · Republican59.3%213,625
- Stephen Houlahan · Democrat40.7%146,665
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 shows legislation related to veterans, local governance, and regulatory reform. Notable sponsored bills include the Sergeant Rafael Peralta Medal of Honor Authorization Act and the Protecting TPLF From Abuse Act. His committee memberships include roles in technology and oversight, particularly in the areas of science and judiciary matters. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans Affairs · Local Governance · Regulatory Reform · Foreign Affairs · Technology Oversight Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Issa's legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills and their impact is not assessed; There is no information on unlogged work or informal influence. 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.
Showing 2026. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
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
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
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$318K21%
- Large individual (itemized)$471K32%
- PAC / committee$700K47%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — Investigations and OversightOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on the Judiciary — Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the InternetOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and AntitrustOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — Research and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Oversight and IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
373 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,846,841, spent $692,756, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HJRES 201: Designating an official residence for the Speaker of the House of Representatives. ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8974: To authorize the Development Finance Corporation to invest in Venezuela. ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8973: Sergeant Rafael Peralta Medal of Honor Authorization Act ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 186: Congressional Apportionment Amendment Deadline Act ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8546: Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments Act ↗Apr 28, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1211: Expunging the December 18, 2019, and January 13, 2021, Impeachments of President Donald Trump. ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8483: Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2026 ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8285: Protecting American Competition Act of 2026 ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7311: Lebanon Election Integrity and Diaspora Voting Protection Act of 2026 ↗Feb 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7054: To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a notification of certain construction projects using nonstandard designs. ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7015: Protecting TPLF From Abuse Act ↗Jan 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6730: HERO Act ↗Dec 16, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 373 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 495
- Nay
- 153
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 7
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
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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