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U.S. Representative · California 29th District
Luz M. Rivas
DemocratDistrict D+20119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score21#354 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Luz M. Rivas’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1319 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0529
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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 3 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329, H.R. 1422.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1262 Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1329 Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1422 Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House Democrats
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 Natural ResourcesMinority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMinority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Research and Technology
- Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Rivas← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.521 is 0.13 to the left 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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.J.Res. 78Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | NayProjected at the vote: 21 Entrenched |