Representative · California's 50th district

Scott H. Peters

Scott H. Peters is a Democratic representative for California's 50th district, in Congress since 2013. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 10, and cast 440 of 467 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Current
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2013
Term ends
Jan 3, 2027
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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.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
119th CongressHouse of Representatives6751.5%10 of 675 · rank 263 of 43994%440 of 467 · rank 385 of 439380 became law27%121 of 451
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,2222.0%24 of 1,222 · rank 251 of 44296%808 of 843 · rank 271 of 442260 became law26%127 of 497
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.9%19 of 997 · rank 138 of 44396%548 of 569 · rank 316 of 443350 became law14%72 of 530

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 119th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.19+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.

  1. H.R. 8884: Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans ActYea
    Jul 23, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 232–188· Against party
  2. H.R. 8800: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027Yea
    Jul 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 207–224· Against party
  3. H.R. 6955: Main Street Capital Access ActYea
    Jul 21, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 270–155· Against party
  4. H.R. 8595: Making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.Nay
    Jul 15, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 104–314· Against party
  5. H.R. 7892: No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026Yea
    Jun 10, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 249–172· Against party
  6. H.R. 6047: Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026Yea
    May 21, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 235–179· Against party
  7. H.R. 5625: Cashless Bail Reporting ActYea
    May 14, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 308–116· Against party
  8. H.R. 7567: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026Yea
    Apr 30, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 186–238· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. S. 2403: Retire through Ownership ActYea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
  2. H.R. 9497: Water Resources Development Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
  3. H.R. 9340: Ratepayer Protection ActNot voting
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
  4. H.J.Res. 213: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".Nay
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
  5. H.R. 10326: PROOF ActNay
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
  6. H.R. 9576: National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72· Against party
  7. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159
  8. H.Con.Res. 93: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.Yea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
  9. H.J.Res. 210: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision".Nay
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
  10. H.R. 9500: Tax Relief for Fraud Victims ActYea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
  11. H.R. 2140: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025Yea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79
  12. H.R. 4646: Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025Yea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–0

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

99 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced9495%
  2. Reported by committee11.0%
  3. Passed one chamber44.0%

Policy areas

  1. Armed Forces and National Security22
  2. Health18
  3. Environmental Protection10
  4. Energy7
  5. Housing and Community Development6
  6. Labor and Employment5
  7. Immigration4
  8. Government Operations and Politics3

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 10591 Safer Choice Program Authorization Act of 2026
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Sep 24, 2026
  2. H.R. 10302 Certainty in Litigation for Electric Asset Reliability (CLEAR) Act of 2026
    Introduced· Energy· Sep 4, 2026
  3. H.R. 10215 Workforce Mobility Act of 2026
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Sep 1, 2026
  4. H.R. 9929 To 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".
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 23, 2026
  5. H.R. 9870 Affordable Housing Incentives Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Jul 22, 2026
  6. H.R. 9760 National Coordination on Adaptation and Resilience for Security Act of 2026
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jul 16, 2026
  7. H.R. 9599 SECURE 340B Act
    Introduced· Health· Jul 6, 2026
  8. H.R. 9564 Military Housing Innovation Act
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jun 30, 2026

Committees

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

Current seats

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to California's 50th 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
$2.7B
Per resident
$3,542
Rank in California
4 of 52
Contract actions
21K
New awards: 14.1K

By fiscal year

  1. 3.5BFY2017
  2. 3.5BFY2018
  3. 3.7BFY2019
  4. 3.9BFY2020
  5. 3.5BFY2021
  6. 3.8BFY2022
  7. 3.7BFY2023
  8. 4.3BFY2024
  9. 4.4BFY2025
  10. 2.7BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Navy$1.3B48%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Air Force$435.5M16%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$254.5M9.5%
  4. Department of the Army$123.9M4.6%
    Department of Defense
  5. Defense Logistics Agency$119.8M4.5%
    Department of Defense
  6. Defense Health Agency$61.9M2.3%
    Department of Defense
  7. Defense Information Systems Agency$49.8M1.9%
    Department of Defense
  8. U.S. Special Operations Command$46.4M1.7%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$525.1M20%
    94 awards
  2. GENERAL ATOMICS$160.1M6.0%
    122 awards
  3. VETERANS EZ INFO INC.$115.5M4.3%
    9 awards
  4. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$88.8M3.3%
    32 awards
  5. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$79.2M3.0%
    13 awards
  6. BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.$63.9M2.4%
    69 awards
  7. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$60.5M2.3%
    17 awards
  8. MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO$45.6M1.7%
    1 award
  9. LEIDOS, INC.$40.1M1.5%
    3 awards
  10. CLIPPER OIL, INC.$35.6M1.3%
    604 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
$1.8M
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$2.6M
From committees
$1.2M
321 committees
From contractor PACs
$451.3K
98 PACs · 38% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$10KAMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
johnson & johnsonjohnson & johnson political action committee$10KJOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family—
abbott laboratoriesabbott laboratories employee political action committee$10KABBOTT LABORATORIES INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$90M
united parcel service, inc.united parcel service, inc. pac (upspac)$10KUNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$685.7K
american institute of certified public accountantsamerican institute of certified public accountants political action committee$10KAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTSAI match · 100% · the same organization—
general dynamics corporationgeneral dynamics corporation political action committee (general dynamics employee pac)$10KGENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family$29.3K
eli lilly and companyeli lilly and company political action committee$10KELI LILLY AND COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization$286.4K
northrop grumman corporationemployees of northrop grumman corporation pac$10KNORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$1.1B
pricewaterhousecooperspricewaterhousecoopers political action committee i$10KPRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLPAI match · 98% · the same organization$4.8M
caterpillar inc.caterpillar inc. political action committee (catpac)$10KCATERPILLAR INCAI match · 100% · the same organization$188.3M

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$1.8M$1.2M$451.3K98 PACs · 38% of committee money
2024$2.3M$1.3M$480.7K98 PACs · 37% of committee money
2022$2.4M$1.3M$499.1K101 PACs · 39% 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.

  1. House · California's 50th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. House · California's 50th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  3. House · California's 52nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  4. House · California's 52nd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  5. House · California's 52nd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  6. House · California's 52nd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  7. House · California's 52nd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Website
scottpeters.house.gov
Phone
202-225-0508
Office
2369 Rayburn House Office Building

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.