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U.S. Representative · California 16th District
Sam T. Liccardo
DemocratDistrict D+26119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score34#283 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Sam T. Liccardo’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1117 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0516
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 4 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 4 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 842, H.R. 1422, H.R. 2808, H.R. 6644.
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- StrongSafe Democratic district: CA-16 is D+26CA-16 has a partisan lean of D+26 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- MediumVotes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.346 (party median -0.393; rank 79 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 94 (avg 96).
Bill-specific inputs
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 Financial ServicesMinority · 23rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Liccardo← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.346 is 0.05 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 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 8121To designate the Christiansted Bandstand at the Christiansted National Historic Site, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, as the "Peter G. Thurland, Sr., Bandstand".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 49
| Middle |
| S. 216 |