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Darrell Issa

Darrell Issa

Republican · CA U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

25 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2001

  • role U.S. representative for California's 48th congressional district, having also represented the 50th from 2021 to 2023
  • role Served in the U.S. House from 2001 to 2019, representing the 48th and then 49th districts in the San Diego area
  • role Chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2011 to 2015
  • background Co-founded and served as CEO of Directed Electronics, a maker of automobile aftermarket products
  • background Born November 1, 1953

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

  • 100.0%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 17 recorded roll calls

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 55
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 134 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 0
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 55 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting

    votes with the party majority · on 8 party-line votes

    Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

  • 0%
    Cross-party voting

    votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

    The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

  • 0
    Documented positions →

    no positions documented yet

    Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

  • 9
    Committee assignments →

    committees and subcommittees

    Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

  • 10
    Disclosed stock trades →

    0 tickers · 10 in a sector a committee they sit on oversees

    Disclosed trades are legally required public filings (STOCK Act), not evidence of wrongdoing; trades may be executed by a manager or held in a blind trust.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Darrell Issa. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

100.0%
of House roll calls voted

Full voting record (17 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 17 of 676 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Issue positions (3)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Campaign finance

2024 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House CA-48 · 2026 General Election

  • $1,782,412 raised
  • $755,386 spent
  • $1,644,616 cash on hand
$1.78M
$1.41M
$823.86K
Itemized (≥ $200)$548.23K
Unitemized (< $200)$275.63K
Other committees (PACs)$582.15K
Transfers from other committees$365.12K
Offsets to expenditures$6.48K
Other receipts$4.81K
$755.39K
Operating expenditures$741.26K
Contribution refunds$14.13K
Cash on hand$1.64M
Debts owed by committee$5.08M

Through December 31, 2024 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Dec 31, 2024)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

Darrell Issa campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2020$16,813,994$16,521,430$292,563
2022$2,337,214$2,012,187$617,590
2024$1,782,412$755,386$1,644,616
2026$2,090,221$1,019,227$2,715,610

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

  • Employer not reported $45,911
  • ARMSCOR PRECISION INTL $18,200
  • GOOGLE $11,400
  • FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP $7,050
  • 1A AUTO $6,850
  • VIBRANT TECH $6,700
  • KIRKLAND & ELLIS $6,600
  • LINK GROUP $6,600
  • VCA ANIMAL HOSPITALS $6,600
  • MAGNADYNE CORP $6,600

Outside spending on this race

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

Independent expenditures are money outside groups (PACs / super-PACs) spend to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with their campaign. What's this? →

  • 2026 cycle $0 supporting · $3,552 opposing · 2 outside groups
  • 2024 cycle $3,599 supporting · $0 opposing · 2 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Sponsored / cosponsored bills (189)

Data from Congress.gov

189
Page 1 of 8 · 189 bills
  • HR 10364American Copyright Protection Act of 2026sponsoredSep 13, 2026
  • HR 10317Inventory Act of 2026sponsoredSep 7, 2026
  • HR 10208To provide for the continued use of certain trust land in San Diego County for healthcare purposes.sponsoredAug 31, 2026
  • HR 10126DEMAND Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 19, 2026
  • HR 10114To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15642 Sand Canyon Avenue in Irvine, California, as the "Mary Kageyama Nomura Post Office Building".cosponsoredAug 16, 2026
  • HR 10025Preventing Abuse of Digital Replicas ActsponsoredAug 2, 2026
  • HR 10026Honoring Circuit Judge Pauline Newman Act of 2026sponsoredAug 2, 2026
  • HR 9914Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks ActcosponsoredJul 22, 2026
  • HR 9893Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2026cosponsoredJul 22, 2026
  • HR 9929To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4640 Cass Street in San Diego, California, as the "Mary Wilding Memorial Post Office Building".cosponsoredJul 22, 2026
  • HR 9838National Security Interstate Pipeline ActcosponsoredJul 21, 2026
  • HR 9680Replace UNRWA with Real Humanitarian Assistance ActcosponsoredJul 13, 2026
  • HJRES 201Designating an official residence for the Speaker of the House of Representatives.sponsoredJul 8, 2026
  • HR 9430American Drone Manufacturing Dominance Act of 2026cosponsoredJun 23, 2026
  • HRES 1366Commending Taiwan on the 30th anniversary of its first direct presidential election in 1996, and expressing support for Taiwan in the preservation of its democratic institutions.cosponsoredJun 10, 2026
  • HR 9250Great American Outdoors Act 250cosponsoredJun 9, 2026
  • HR 9214TSP Modernization ActcosponsoredJun 8, 2026
  • HR 9142Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act of 2026cosponsoredJun 3, 2026
  • HR 9147Abraham Accords Expansion Act of 2026cosponsoredJun 3, 2026
  • HR 9106Robert Lodge Medal of Honor ActcosponsoredJun 1, 2026
  • HR 8974To authorize the Development Finance Corporation to invest in Venezuela.sponsoredMay 20, 2026
  • HR 8973Sergeant Rafael Peralta Medal of Honor Authorization ActsponsoredMay 20, 2026
  • HR 8892CAL Repayment ActcosponsoredMay 18, 2026
  • HJRES 186Congressional Apportionment Amendment Deadline ActsponsoredMay 13, 2026
  • HR 8546Pechanga Band of Indians Water Rights Settlement Technical Amendments ActsponsoredApr 27, 2026
Page 1 of 8 · 189 bills

Committee assignments (9)

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Issa most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Issa, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Issa connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

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Congressional testimony