Former representative · California's 20th district
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy served in Congress from 2007 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for California's 20th district. In the 118th Congress, 451 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 68, and cast 252 of 285 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 4, 2007
- Last term ended
- Dec 31, 2023

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 | 451 | 15.1%68 of 451 · rank 14 of 442 | 88%252 of 285 · rank 381 of 442 | 140 became law | 0%0 of 9 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 3.0%30 of 997 · rank 74 of 443 | 96%540 of 561 · rank 318 of 443 | 110 became law | 23%17 of 74 |
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.
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.
- Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 155–268· Against party
- Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 155–270· Against party
- Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 157–268· Against party
- Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 162–262· Against party
- Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 144–279· Against party
- Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–316· Against party
- Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 183–251· Against party
- Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 140–294· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- H.R. 2365: Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s ActYeaDec 14, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 407–9
- Dec 14, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree to the Conference Report· Passed 310–118
- Dec 13, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree· Passed 303–126
- Dec 13, 2023· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 221–212
- Dec 13, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 330–99
- Dec 12, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 218–203
- Dec 12, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 386–37
- Dec 12, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 396–28
- Dec 12, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 420–1
- Dec 12, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 403–20
- Dec 11, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 376–15
- Dec 11, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 320–71
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
25 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced1664%
- Reported by committee28.0%
- Passed one chamber728%
Policy areas
- Congress11
- Environmental Protection2
- Armed Forces and National Security1
- Government Operations and Politics1
- Health1
- Public Lands and Natural Resources1
- Science, Technology, Communications1
- Social Welfare1
Latest activity
- H.R. 2989 Save Our Sequoias ActReported by committee· Environmental Protection· Dec 18, 2024
- H.R. 5617 Space Transformation And Reliability ActIntroduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Jul 24, 2024
- H.R. 6718 City of Ridgecrest Land Exchange ActIntroduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Dec 12, 2023
- H.R. 6068 Clergy ActReported by committee· Social Welfare· Dec 1, 2023
- H.Res. 593 Authorizing video recording in the House Chamber during a joint meeting of Congress for certain educational purposes.Passed one chamber· Congress· Jul 17, 2023
- H.Res. 523 Authorizing video recording in the House Chamber during a joint meeting of Congress for certain educational purposes.Passed one chamber· Congress· Jun 20, 2023
- H.Res. 328 Authorizing video recording in the House Chamber during a joint meeting of Congress for certain educational purposes.Passed one chamber· Congress· Apr 26, 2023
- H.Res. 11 Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.Passed one chamber· Congress· Jan 10, 2023
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 20th 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
- $799.9M
- Per resident
- $1,010
- Rank in California
- 18 of 52
- Contract actions
- 3,338
- New awards: 1,312
By fiscal year
- 850.9MFY2017
- 798.8MFY2018
- 984.9MFY2019
- 2.1BFY2020
- 1.7BFY2021
- 1.2BFY2022
- 1.4BFY2023
- 1.5BFY2024
- 1.4BFY2025
- 799.9MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of the Navy$229.8M29%Department of Defense
- Department of the Air Force$187.7M23%Department of Defense
- Agricultural Marketing Service$96.3M12%Department of Agriculture
- Forest Service$66.8M8.4%Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$55.9M7.0%Department of Homeland Security
- National Park Service$15.1M1.9%Department of the Interior
- Defense Health Agency$9.1M1.1%Department of Defense
Top recipients
- THE GEO GROUP, INC.$44.8M5.6%2 awards
- CENTRAL VALLEY MEAT CO., INC.$39.7M5.0%11 awards
- V2X AEROSPACE LLC$39.6M4.9%2 awards
- WAWONA FROZEN FOODS INC$32.3M4.0%16 awards
- AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.$25.9M3.2%5 awards
- 14 awards
- ANNA LISA LUNA CONSTRUCTION, INC.$21.7M2.7%10 awards
- SCALED COMPOSITES, LLC$18M2.2%1 award
- NEW DIRECTIONS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$17.4M2.2%44 awards
- TLI CONSTRUCTION, INC.$16.1M2.0%26 awards
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
- $616.5K
- through Jun 30, 2026
- Cash on hand
- $5.1M
- From committees
- -$86.5K
- 1 committees
- From contractor PACs
- -$25K
- 0 PACs · — of committee money
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $616.5K | -$86.5K | -$25K0 PACs · — of committee money |
| 2024 | $15.7M | $1.3M | $295.5K64 PACs · 23% of committee money |
| 2022 | $28.3M | $1.1M | $487K71 PACs · 43% 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 20th districtJan 3, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
- House · California's 23rd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · California's 23rd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · California's 23rd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
- House · California's 23rd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
- House · California's 23rd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
- House · California's 22nd districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
- House · California's 22nd districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
- House · California's 22nd districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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.