RepublicanDavid G. Valadao
U.S. Representative · California
California's 22nd district
U.S. Representative from California
4 tracked promises, 4 rated
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).
- David G. Valadao · Republican53.4%89,484
- Rudy Salas · Democrat46.6%78,023
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.
Showing 2024. 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 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. 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.
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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$72K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.2M42%
- PAC / committee$1.5M55%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, Joint Committee of Congress on the LibraryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — DefenseOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Appropriations — Legislative BranchOn record since Jan 2025Chair
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+63 · based on 4 rated promises
- Attempted 1
- Championed 3
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2021 · 4 rated promisesThe line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.
| Date | Integrity Score |
|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 75 |
| Sep 2026 | 53 |
| Sep 2026 | 60 |
| Sep 2026 | 63 |
| Jan 2027 | 63 (current, held from last rating) |
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept4
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
4 promises across 4 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- agriculture1
- immigration1
- water1
- wildfire1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)4100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
4 tracked promises
“Reform contradictory federal and state water laws and expand water storage infrastructure to increase reliable water deliveries to Central Valley farms and communities, advanced through his WATER for California Act (H.R. 9084, 117th Congress; H.R. 215, 118th Congress).”
“Modernize the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program to give Central Valley farmers a reliable, legal workforce; cosponsored the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603, 117th Congress) and the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act.”
“Enact a permanent legislative solution giving Dreamers (immigrants brought to the U.S. as children) a path to legal status; cosponsored the Dream Act of 2017 (H.R. 3440).”
“Enact the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act to require federal agencies to deploy modern technology to detect and fight wildfires; sponsored the bill in the 118th (H.R. 3389) and 119th (H.R. 836) Congresses, both passed by the House.”
Verified record
86 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 $1,315,897, spent $1,181,113, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1390: Expressing support for the designation of June as Portuguese National Heritage Month. ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9376: TOURS Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9010: Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes. ↗May 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9006: Locating Our Unclaimed Veterans Act ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8913: Tulare Youth Recreation and Women’s History Enhancement Act ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8806: Supporting Newborn Parents Act of 2026 ↗May 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7951: Long-Term Good Neighbor Authority Act ↗Mar 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7234: Human Trafficking Awareness Training Recognition Act of 2026 ↗Jan 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7049: Improving Mental Health Care and Coordination for Homeless Veterans Act ↗Jan 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6315: SECURE IT Act ↗Nov 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6163: Determination of NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act ↗Nov 19, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 872: Supporting the goals and ideals of "Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Awareness Day". ↗Nov 10, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 86 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 489
- Nay
- 154
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 12
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
5 positions 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 NO 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 → - wildfireStated position
Enact the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act to require federal agencies to deploy modern technology to detect and fight wildfires; sponsored the bill in the 118th (H.R. 3389) and 119th (H.R. 836) Congresses, both passed by the House.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrackView position & sources → - waterStated position
Reform contradictory federal and state water laws and expand water storage infrastructure to increase reliable water deliveries to Central Valley farms and communities, advanced through his WATER for California Act (H.R. 9084, 117th Congress; H.R. 215, 118th Congress).
SourcesOffice of Rep. David Valadao (valadao.house.gov)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrackView position & sources → - agricultureStated position
Modernize the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program to give Central Valley farmers a reliable, legal workforce; cosponsored the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603, 117th Congress) and the Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act.
SourcesOffice of Rep. David Valadao (valadao.house.gov)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedOffice of Rep. David Valadao (valadao.house.gov)· archivedView position & sources → - immigrationStated position
Enact a permanent legislative solution giving Dreamers (immigrants brought to the U.S. as children) a path to legal status; cosponsored the Dream Act of 2017 (H.R. 3440).
SourcesOffice of Rep. David Valadao (valadao.house.gov)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedView 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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