Former representative · California's 16th district

Anna G. Eshoo

Anna G. Eshoo served in Congress from 1993 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for California's 16th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 19, and cast 834 of 848 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Democrat
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: Jan 5, 1993
Last term ended: Jan 3, 2025

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Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives	1,222	1.6%19 of 1,222 · rank 281 of 442	98%834 of 848 · rank 166 of 442	300 became law	22%61 of 275
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	0.6%6 of 997 · rank 294 of 443	99%567 of 570 · rank 80 of 443	330 became law	7%36 of 525

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.38+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

H.R. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161· Against party
H.R. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151· Against party
H.R. 8774: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 161–251· Against party
H.R. 192: To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022Yea
May 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 262–143· Against party
H.R. 4763: Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century ActYea
May 22, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 279–136· Against party
H.J.Res. 98: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to "Standard for Determining Joint Employer Status".Yea
May 7, 2024· House· Passage· Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding· Failed 214–191· Against party
H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 227–193· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Yea
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Yea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActYea
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Yea
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Yea
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActYea
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to California's 16th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Obligations · FY2026: $2.1B
Per resident: $2,754
Rank in California: 7 of 52
Contract actions: 3,625; New awards: 1,285

By fiscal year

1BFY2017
993.4MFY2018
1.2BFY2019
1.3BFY2020
1BFY2021
1.2BFY2022
1.1BFY2023
1.4BFY2024
1.5BFY2025
2.1BFY2026

Top buyers

Department of the Army$916M44%
Department of Defense
Department of Energy$399.5M19%
Department of Veterans Affairs$203.8M9.8%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$160.9M7.8%
Department of State$76.4M3.7%
Social Security Administration$61.1M2.9%
Department of the Air Force$39.6M1.9%
Department of Defense
Washington Headquarters Services$34.3M1.7%
Department of Defense

Top recipients

PALANTIR USG INC$1B48%
35 awards
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$425.4M21%
31 awards
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP$60.8M2.9%
3 awards
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$58M2.8%
10 awards
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC$29.4M1.4%
49 awards
SRI INTERNATIONAL$28M1.4%
97 awards
R4 INTEGRATION INC$22.7M1.1%
2 awards
INUTEQ, LLC$22M1.1%
17 awards
PERSONALIS, INC.$18.3M0.9%
2 awards
JARIA LLC$17.5M0.8%
1 award

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Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised: $717; through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand: $0
From committees: $0; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: $0; 0 PACs · — of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$717	$0	$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024	$622.2K	$338K	$118.5K52 PACs · 35% of committee money
2022	$2M	$855.9K	$247.6K75 PACs · 29% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

House · California's 16th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · California's 18th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · California's 18th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
House · California's 18th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
House · California's 18th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
House · California's 18th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
House · California's 14th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
House · California's 14th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
House · California's 14th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
House · California's 14th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
House · California's 14th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
House · California's 14th districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
House · California's 14th districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001
House · California's 14th districtJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999
House · California's 14th districtJan 4, 1995 – Jan 3, 1997
House · California's 14th districtJan 5, 1993 – Jan 3, 1995

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)

Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.