Former representative · California's 29th district

Tony Cárdenas

Tony Cárdenas served in Congress from 2013 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for California's 29th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 46, and cast 816 of 825 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Democrat
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: Jan 3, 2013
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	3.8%46 of 1,222 · rank 136 of 442	99%816 of 825 · rank 125 of 442	230 became law	16%75 of 482
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	1.5%15 of 997 · rank 164 of 443	99%560 of 564 · rank 112 of 443	411 became law	5%33 of 643

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 −1−0.39+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. 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. 4639: Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale ActYea
Apr 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 219–199· Against party
H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 212–212· Against party
H.R. 2799: Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023Yea
Mar 7, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 301–125· Against party
H.R. 2799: Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023Yea
Mar 7, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 278–146· Against party
H.R. 4365: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
Sep 27, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 176–258· Against party
H.R. 1338: SAT Streamlining ActYea
Jul 25, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Failed 250–163· 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 29th 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: $280M
Per resident: $382
Rank in California: 41 of 52
Contract actions: 18.9K; New awards: 16.2K

By fiscal year

396.6MFY2017
489.7MFY2018
420.8MFY2019
410.8MFY2020
508.4MFY2021
360.9MFY2022
387.2MFY2023
331.1MFY2024
318.2MFY2025
280MFY2026

Top buyers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$148.4M53%
Department of the Air Force$33.9M12%
Department of Defense
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$25.6M9.1%
Department of Agriculture
Defense Logistics Agency$21.8M7.8%
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$18.4M6.6%
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs$12.1M4.3%
Federal Acquisition Service$9.3M3.3%
General Services Administration
Department of the Navy$6.9M2.5%
Department of Defense

Top recipients

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$145.7M52%
393 awards
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$26.2M9.4%
29 awards
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP$22.4M8.0%
30 awards
DYNAMIC AVIATION GROUP, INC.$17.1M6.1%
1 award
RICHARD GROUP LLC$9.8M3.5%
1 award
F & M MICRO PRODUCTS INC$8.5M3.0%
14,795 awards
J.L SHEPHERD AND ASSOCIATES, INC.$8.5M3.0%
2 awards
MASON ELECTRIC CO.$4M1.4%
154 awards
PACIFIC SKY SUPPLY, INC.$3.8M1.3%
56 awards
BADVR INC$3.6M1.3%
2 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: $32.42; through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand: $6,691
From committees: -$1,500; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: $0; 0 PACs · — of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$32.42	-$1,500	$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024	$661.7K	$444.2K	$130K62 PACs · 29% of committee money
2022	$1.6M	$1.1M	$326K81 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 29th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · California's 29th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · California's 29th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
House · California's 29th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
House · California's 29th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
House · California's 29th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

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.