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Sydney Kamlager-Dove

DemocratSydney Kamlager-Dove

U.S. Representative · California

California's 37th district

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U.S. Representative from California

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California · California's 37th district

California's 37th district

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How they won their seat

Sydney Kamlager-Dove won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 37) with 78.3% of the vote (160,364 votes).

78.3%
Win share
160,364
Votes for winner
204,814
Total cast
  • Sydney Kamlager-Dove · Democrat78.3%
  • Juan Rey · No Party Preference21.7%

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

Sydney Kamlager-Dove's record includes sponsored bills related to social justice, criminal justice reform, and issues affecting marginalized communities. This is evidenced by her sponsorship of bills such as the Women in Criminal Justice Reform Act (HR 8976), the End Solitary Confinement Act (HR 4682), and the Family Notification of Death, Injury, or Illness in Custody Act of 2025 (HR 2718). Additionally, her committee memberships reflect engagement with issues related to foreign affairs and the judiciary. Focus areas (from the record): Criminal Justice Reform · Social Justice · Foreign Affairs · Community Support · Arts Education Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The available evidence does not provide declared positions or tracked promises to compare against her sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of her sponsored bills cannot be assessed based on available evidence; Specific policy priorities cannot be determined due to lack of declared positions; The impact of her committee work cannot be assessed based on available evidence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Sydney Kamlager-Dove 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 2023. 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 Sydney Kamlager-Dove 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

20bills sponsored
20 pending
05101520Bills2023: 20 pending202023

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

0%
0 of 20 sponsored bills became law
20 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$3.4M
Raised, 20222026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2022: raised $1.2M2022: spent $1.1M20222024: raised $1.1M2024: spent $1.1M20242026: raised $1.2M2026: spent $1.0M20262022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $388K (34%)34%Large individual (itemized): $377K (33%)33%PAC / committee: $384K (33%)33%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$388K34%
  • Large individual (itemized)$377K33%
  • PAC / committee$384K33%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
262
Nay
371
Present
0
Not voting
22

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The 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.
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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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