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DemocratJim Costa
U.S. Representative · California
California's 21st district
U.S. Representative from California
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Jim Costa won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 21) with 52.6% of the vote (102,798 votes).
- Jim Costa · Democrat52.6%102,798
- Michael Maher · Republican47.4%92,733
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
Jim Costa's record includes legislative activity related to rural development, public health, and education, with examples such as the Rural Development Modernization Act and the Emergency Rural Water Response Act of 2025. Additionally, he has supported initiatives related to crime victims' rights and public education. Focus areas (from the record): Rural Development · Public Health · Education · Crime Victims' Rights · Water Resources Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Costa's legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Jim Costa 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 Jim Costa 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
- 248
- Voted yea
- 137
- Voted nay
- 104
- Bills sponsored
- 3
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 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)$13K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$731K51%
- PAC / committee$689K48%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Forestry and HorticultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — EuropeOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
175 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 $1,161,499, spent $552,239, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1356: A resolution commemorating the Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities, and for other purposes. ↗Jun 10, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1190: Supporting the designation of April 19 through April 25, 2026, as "National Crime Victims' Rights Week". ↗Apr 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7609: Rural Development Modernization Act ↗Feb 20, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 894: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that strong public education in United States history and civics is essential to preserving the Nation's founding ideals on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the United States. ↗Nov 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5875: COWS Act of 2025 ↗Oct 31, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 844: Expressing support for the designation of October 2025 as "Crime Prevention Month". ↗Oct 31, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5796: BUILD Act ↗Oct 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5747: Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2025 ↗Oct 14, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5728: Rural Homeownership Continuity Act of 2025 ↗Oct 10, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 788: Expressing support for the designation of October 8, 2025, as "National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day". ↗Oct 6, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5677: RIDE FAST Act ↗Oct 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5355: Ian Kalvinskas Pediatric Liver Cancer Early Detection and Screening Act ↗Sep 15, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 175 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 302
- Nay
- 280
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 26
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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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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