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U.S. Representative · California 27th District
George Whitesides
DemocratDistrict D+3119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score73#35 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact George Whitesides’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1504 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0527
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
- StrongBroke with Democrats on 38 of 347 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Democrats on 38 of the 347 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (11%). The median House Democratic broke on 4%; this member ranks 21 of 214 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 7757 KIDS Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6047 Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6260 Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 5625 Cashless Bail Reporting Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1318 Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration 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
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Armed ServicesMinority · 23rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMinority · 13th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Whitesides← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.204 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 451–500 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1038TRACE ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 75
| Swing |
| H.R. 5242To repeal the Second Chance Amendment Act of 2022 and the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016. |