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U.S. Representative · California 21st District
Jim Costa
DemocratDistrict D+4119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score79#25 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Jim Costa’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2081 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0521
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
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 · 5 signals
- StrongBacks 15 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 15 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 36, H.R. 227, H.R. 309, H.R. 452, H.R. 471 and 10 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 36 MEGOBARI Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 227 Clergy Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 309 National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 471 Fix Our Forests Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 21.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryRanking Member
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsMinority · 13th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Europe
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Costa← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.199 is 0.19 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7305Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 85
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