Former representative · California's 27th district

Mike Garcia

Mike Garcia served in Congress from 2020 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for California's 27th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 48, and cast 719 of 833 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Republican
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: May 19, 2020
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	3.9%48 of 1,222 · rank 127 of 442	86%719 of 833 · rank 396 of 442	252 became law	23%39 of 170
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	0.8%8 of 997 · rank 256 of 443	91%520 of 569 · rank 403 of 443	110 became law	28%47 of 169

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+0.36+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. 5342: Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2023Nay
Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 175–225· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 160–256· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–267· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 174–239· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 147–269· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–268· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–272· Against party
H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 146–264· Against party

Recent votes

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

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Not voting
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 2024Not voting
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 ActNot voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNot voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
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 2023Not voting
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNot voting
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".Not voting
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 ActNot voting
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Not voting
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 27th 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: $476.9M
Per resident: $643
Rank in California: 27 of 52
Contract actions: 13.3K; New awards: 10.1K

By fiscal year

613MFY2017
727.5MFY2018
813.2MFY2019
639.6MFY2020
562.4MFY2021
573.1MFY2022
648.4MFY2023
551MFY2024
571.7MFY2025
476.9MFY2026

Top buyers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$151.3M32%
Department of the Air Force$128.3M27%
Department of Defense
Defense Logistics Agency$93.7M20%
Department of Defense
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$25.5M5.3%
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Navy$22.7M4.8%
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$18.6M3.9%
Department of Defense
Forest Service$15.5M3.2%
Department of Agriculture
Federal Acquisition Service$6.3M1.3%
General Services Administration

Top recipients

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$147.5M31%
393 awards
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP$99.9M21%
30 awards
WOODWARD HRT INC$41M8.6%
117 awards
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$26.6M5.6%
29 awards
AVITA MEDICAL AMERICAS, LLC$25.5M5.3%
1 award
ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC$20.3M4.3%
225 awards
HYDRAULICS INTERNATIONAL, INC.$16.9M3.5%
702 awards
ADEPT FASTENERS INC$11.3M2.4%
499 awards
HELICOPTER TRANSPORT SERVICES, LLC$10.6M2.2%
1 award
NOREX GROUP, LLC$5.4M1.1%
6,231 awards

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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: $10.5K; through Dec 31, 2025
Cash on hand: $0
From committees: -$14.5K; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: -$1,000; 0 PACs · — of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$10.5K	-$14.5K	-$1,0000 PACs · — of committee money
2024	$6.5M	$1.5M	$310.4K61 PACs · 21% of committee money
2022	$7.2M	$1.1M	$170.9K35 PACs · 16% 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 27th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · California's 25th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · California's 25th districtMay 19, 2020 – Jan 3, 2021

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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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.