John Garamendi

DemocratDistrict D+24119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score47#173 of 433 representatives across tracked bills

Contact John Garamendi’s office

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

Call office 202-225-1880 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2428 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0508

Model

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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 10 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 10 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 252, H.R. 452, H.R. 471, H.R. 842, H.R. 909 and 5 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.312 (party median -0.393; rank 62 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 7 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).
Medium
Safe Democratic district: CA-8 is D+24CA-8 has a partisan lean of D+24 (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: 16.9 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Armed Services
Minority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on ReadinessRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Minority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
- Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Garamendi

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Their score of -0.312 is 0.08 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress7
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for John Garamendi on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 2035American Cargo for American Ships ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	68 Broke with party on 8% of 28 similar votes Sits on a committee of referral	Middle
H.R. 2351To direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to update the policy of the Coast Guard regarding the use of medication to treat drug overdose, and for other purposes.