DemocratRobert Garcia
U.S. Representative · California
California's 42nd district
U.S. Representative from California
7 tracked promises, 2 rated
How they won their seat
Robert Garcia won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 42) with 68.1% of the vote (159,153 votes).
- Robert Garcia · Democrat68.1%159,153
- John Briscoe · Republican31.9%74,410
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
Robert Garcia's record has sponsored bills related to oversight, transparency, and infrastructure, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'Hatch Act Enforcement Transparency and Accountability Act' and the 'Clean Shipping Act of 2025'. His committee assignments on Oversight and Government Reform and Transportation and Infrastructure are associated with government accountability and infrastructure development. Focus areas (from the record): Oversight · Transparency · Infrastructure · Human Rights · Environmental Protection Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activity, which limits the ability to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions of the politician; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess the consistency of actions with any stated priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Robert Garcia 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 Robert Garcia 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 10
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 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)$970K45%
- Large individual (itemized)$726K33%
- PAC / committee$481K22%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+75 · based on 2 rated promises
- Championed 2
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 2023 · 2 rated promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept2
- 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
7 promises across 7 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.
- Civil Rights & Liberties1
- Climate, Environment & Energy1
- Disaster Relief1
- Guns & Public Safety1
- Housing1
- Immigration & Border Security1
- Infrastructure1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)7100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
7 tracked promises
“Enact the AMMO Act (Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight Act) to require background checks on ammunition buyers, require ammunition sellers to obtain the same federal license as firearms dealers, ban straw purchases of ammunition, and cap bulk purchases at 100 rounds of .50-caliber and 1,000 rounds of other ammunition per five-day period.”
“Enact the International Human Rights Defense Act to direct the U.S. State Department to make combating violence, discrimination, and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people abroad a foreign-policy priority and to formally establish a permanent special envoy to coordinate LGBTQ+ rights policy across the State Department.”
“Enact the Clean Shipping Act to require ocean carriers calling at U.S. ports to progressively cut and ultimately eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from their fuels, reducing port pollution and protecting the health of port communities.”
“Enact the People Over Parking Act to eliminate mandatory minimum parking requirements in local zoning laws in order to lower housing construction costs and expand housing supply in walkable, transit-oriented communities.”
“Enact the SHIELD Act to strengthen access to legal assistance for immigrants.”
“Enact the Piers Reinvestment Act to expand coastal communities' access to federal infrastructure funding so they can repair and upgrade aging piers.”
“Enact the Fair Disaster Assistance Act to protect disaster survivors from unnecessary denials of federal (FEMA) disaster assistance.”
Verified record
45 sponsored billsFacts 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.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9741: To name the District of Columbia tuition assistance grant program the "Eleanor Holmes Norton District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program". ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1228: Directing the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives to initiate or intervene in judicial proceedings. ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8508: Piers Reinvestment Act ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7827: Stop Militarizing Our Streets Act of 2026 ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6085: Stop Ballroom Bribery Act ↗Nov 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6056: International Human Rights Defense Act of 2025 ↗Nov 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5799: FALCON Act of 2025 ↗Oct 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5578: Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025 ↗Sep 26, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5231: Safe Airspace for Americans Act ↗Sep 9, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 599: Recognizing the immense capacity of the popular arts to bring people together, inspire creativity and imagination, promote critical thinking, and instill the universal values of truth, justice, and equality. ↗Jul 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4325: Clean Shipping Act of 2025 ↗Jul 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4227: AMMO Act ↗Jun 27, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 45 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 239
- Nay
- 334
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 36
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Not voting
- HR3106Not voting
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
7 positions on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.
- Disaster ReliefStated position
Enact the Fair Disaster Assistance Act to protect disaster survivors from unnecessary denials of federal (FEMA) disaster assistance.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-introduces-bipartisan-bill-protect-disasterhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1164View position & sources → - HousingStated position
Enact the People Over Parking Act to eliminate mandatory minimum parking requirements in local zoning laws in order to lower housing construction costs and expand housing supply in walkable, transit-oriented communities.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-reintroduces-people-over-parking-act-alongside-rehttps://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/rep-garcia-reintroduces-people-over-parking-act-to-address-housing-shortage-promote-walkable-communitieshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2710View position & sources → - Civil Rights & LibertiesStated position
Enact the International Human Rights Defense Act to direct the U.S. State Department to make combating violence, discrimination, and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people abroad a foreign-policy priority and to formally establish a permanent special envoy to coordinate LGBTQ+ rights policy across the State Department.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-and-senator-ed-markey-reintroduce-internationalhttps://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/11/17/exclusive-garcia-markey-reintroduce-bill-to-require-us-promotes-lgbtq-rights-abroad/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6056View position & sources → - Climate, Environment & EnergyStated position
Enact the Clean Shipping Act to require ocean carriers calling at U.S. ports to progressively cut and ultimately eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from their fuels, reducing port pollution and protecting the health of port communities.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-and-senator-alex-padilla-reintroduce-clean-shippinghttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4325View position & sources → - Guns & Public SafetyStated position
Enact the AMMO Act (Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight Act) to require background checks on ammunition buyers, require ammunition sellers to obtain the same federal license as firearms dealers, ban straw purchases of ammunition, and cap bulk purchases at 100 rounds of .50-caliber and 1,000 rounds of other ammunition per five-day period.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-and-senator-elizabeth-warren-reintroduce-ammo-acthttps://spectrumlocalnews.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/06/27/garcia--warren-reintroduce-bill-to-limit-bulk-ammunition-saleshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4227View position & sources → - Immigration & Border SecurityStated position
Enact the SHIELD Act to strengthen access to legal assistance for immigrants.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-reintroduces-shield-act-strengthen-access-legalhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3101View position & sources → - InfrastructureStated position
Enact the Piers Reinvestment Act to expand coastal communities' access to federal infrastructure funding so they can repair and upgrade aging piers.
Sourceshttps://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-robert-garcia-introduces-bill-upgrade-aging-piers-and-investhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8508View 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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