Robert Garcia

DemocratDistrict D+18119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score13#413 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Robert Garcia’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-7924 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

109 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0542

Model

v3defaultv2

Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 8 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 8 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 909, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329, H.R. 2853 and 3 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.373 (party median -0.393; rank 94 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).
Medium
Safe Democratic district: CA-42 is D+18CA-42 has a partisan lean of D+18 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 3.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Minority · 25th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Aviation
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Garcia

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of -0.373 is 0.02 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

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House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Robert Garcia on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 131Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	13	Entrenched
H.R. 139Sunshine Protection Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov