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David G. Valadao

RepublicanDavid G. Valadao

U.S. Representative · California

California's 22nd district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 22nd district

California's 22nd district

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How they won their seat

David G. Valadao won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 22) with 53.4% of the vote (89,484 votes).

53.4%
Win share
89,484
Votes for winner
167,507
Total cast
  • David G. Valadao · Republican53.4%
  • Rudy Salas · Democrat46.6%

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

David G. Valadao has sponsored bills related to agricultural support, veterans' issues, and health care, as evidenced by the Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act and the Improving Mental Health Care and Coordination for Homeless Veterans Act. His committee memberships include appropriations related to agriculture and defense. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Veterans · Health Care · Appropriations · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Valadao's legislative activities and voting patterns. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. David G. Valadao 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 David G. Valadao 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
455
Voted nay
142
Bills sponsored
86
Committees
6

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 30 YeaJun '25: 9 NayJun '25Jul '25: 25 YeaJul '25: 8 NayJul '25Sep '25: 42 YeaSep '25: 22 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 39 YeaDec '25: 17 NayDec '25Jan '26: 35 YeaJan '26: 12 NayJan '26Feb '26: 23 YeaFeb '26: 7 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 20 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 32 YeaApr '26: 13 NayApr '26May '26: 27 YeaMay '26: 9 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 8 YeaJul '26: 8 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%
attendance
597 of 609 roll calls12 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

86bills sponsored
1 passed a chamber57 pending28 awaiting status
06131925Bills2013: 5 awaiting status520132014: 4 awaiting status420142015: 4 awaiting status420152016: 3 awaiting status320162017: 5 awaiting status520172018: 1 awaiting status120182021: 2 awaiting status220212022: 4 awaiting status420222023: 11 pending1120232024: 1 passed a chamber, 15 pending2024: 1 passed a chamber, 15 pending1620242025: 22 pending2220252026: 9 pending92026

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

5%
Votes against own party
29 of 597 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

0%
0 of 58 sponsored bills became law
1 passed a chamber57 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$2.8M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2026: raised $2.8M2026: spent $2.8M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $72K (3%)Large individual (itemized): $1.2M (42%)42%PAC / committee: $1.5M (55%)55%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$72K3%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.2M42%
  • PAC / committee$1.5M55%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

86 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 Dec 31, 2012

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,315,897, spent $1,181,113, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
455
Nay
142
Present
0
Not voting
12

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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