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Rep. Sara Jacobs

Representative for California’s 51st District

pronounced SAR-uh // JAY-kubs

Jacobs is the representative for California’s 51st congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2023. Jacobs’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. She is 35 years old.

She was previously the representative for California’s 53rd congressional district as a Democrat from 2021 to 2022.

Photo of Rep. Sara Jacobs [D-CA51]

Misconduct

Jacobs was arrested at a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on July, 19 2022. The same month the Committee published a committee report indicating they will pay a $50 fine.

Jul. 29, 2022 House Committee on Ethics published a committee report indicating they will pay a $50 fine

Earmarks

Jacobs proposed $28 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to University of California, San Diego for “UCSD Wildfire Technology Commons”
  • $4 million to City of San Diego for “New San Carlos Library”
  • $3.6 million to San Diego Community College District for “Miramar College School of Public Safety Renovation”

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

Jacobs 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

Sara Jacobs sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Jacobs was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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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

Jacobs sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (56%) Armed Forces and National Security (33%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Jacobs recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Jacobs voted Yea

Jacobs voted Nay

Jacobs voted Nay

Passed 391/34 on Apr 16, 2024.

Jacobs voted Nay

Jacobs voted Yea

Jacobs voted Nay

Jacobs voted Nay

Passed 387/35 on Nov 3, 2021.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Nov 2024, Jacobs missed 40 of 2,200 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with 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.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: