Rep. David Valadao
Representative for California’s 22nd District
pronounced DAY-vid // vel-uh-DAY-oh
Valadao is the representative for California’s 22nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Valadao’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 47 years old.
He was previously the representative for California’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 2021 to 2022; and the representative for California’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 2013 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. David Valadao [R-CA22]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/412515-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Valadao proposed $64 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $15 million to Open Door Network Homeless Shelter Campus for “Bakersfield Homeless Shelter”
- $8 million to City of McFarland for “McFarland Complete Streets”
- $7 million to City of Hanford for “East Lacy Corridor Improvement”
View all requests and justifications on Valadao’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Valadao is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
David Valadao sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Valadao was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Valadao sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (17%) Water Resources Development (17%) Health (17%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Education (8%) Commerce (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Valadao recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1554: Expressing support for the recognition and commemoration of the Sikh Genocide of 1984.
- H.R. 9889: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year ending September …
- H.Res. 1518: Supporting the goals and ideals of “Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Awareness Day”.
- H.R. 9712: VA Extenders Act of 2024
- H.R. 9711: Congressional Budget Office Scheduling Reform Act
- H.R. 9531: To make projects in certain counties eligible for funding under the rural surface …
- H.R. 9492: To amend Public Law 99-338 with respect to Kaweah Project permits.
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Nov 2024, Valadao missed 76 of 5,931 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
