The candidates and ballot details for this 2026 U.S. House race, with the original election records attached.
The Stated Record analysis: Tilt Democratic
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Randy VillegasDemocratic
David G. ValadaoRepublican
Source: California Secretary of State certified candidate list
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
A Visalia Unified School District trustee for Trustee Area 6. The district lists him as appointed in December 2021 and elected in November 2022 and November 2024, with a term ending in December 2028. Visalia Unified School District
The board appointed him provisionally on December 9, 2021, by four votes to one with one abstention, to fill a vacancy until the November 2022 election. Visalia Unified School District
His campaign describes him as an educator, college professor and son of immigrants, raised in Kern County, and the first in his family to earn a doctorate. Villegas for Congress
A ban on stock trading and lobbying by members of Congress, an end to Citizens United, a ban on corporate PAC influence, and congressional term limits. Villegas for Congress
Tuition-free public colleges, career, technical and community, and action on student debt. Villegas for Congress
What the official record shows
Appointed provisionally to the Visalia Unified board for Trustee Area 6, four votes to one with one abstention. Visalia Unified School District
Seconded the motion approving the classified employees' 2022-23 agreement with CSEA Chapter 83, which raised their salary schedule 6.4 per cent after a minimum-wage adjustment and paid $3,500 once to staff working six hours a day or more, pro-rated for others. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District
Moved approval of the teachers' agreement with the Visalia Unified Teachers Association, which raised all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent for 2023-24. It carried unanimously. Visalia Unified School District, Visalia Unified School District
Contributions from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of his committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organisation type or designation of the contributing committee. Each line reconciles to the committee's own filed total: nothing on line 11B, 190,098.39 dollars on line 11C (the itemised rows sum three cents lower) and 57,917.02 dollars on line 12. The rows sum to 248,015.38 dollars, which is a part of what his committee reports raising and not its total. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table.
The sitting member for California's 22nd district. Congress.gov records House service from 2013 to 2019 for the 21st district, and again since 2021; he has represented the 22nd since 2023. Congress.gov
The House Clerk lists him on the Appropriations Committee, on its Agriculture, Defense and Legislative Branch subcommittees, and on the Agriculture Committee. Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
His campaign describes him as a dairy farmer raised in Hanford, whose family emigrated from the Azores, and says he was elected to the California State Assembly in 2010. Valadao for Congress
Congress.gov lists 93 sponsored items for him, two of them floor amendments. By its latest-action record one bill, the Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017, became law under its own number. Congress.gov, Congress.gov
What they say they want to do
A pathway to citizenship, a guest worker program for agriculture, and immigration enforcement focused on people who have committed serious crimes. Valadao for Congress
A safe and stable water supply for the Central Valley and its farms. Valadao for Congress
Market-based health care reform that lowers costs while keeping access for the elderly, the poor and people with pre-existing conditions. Valadao for Congress
A balanced budget, with spending cuts and a fairer tax code; he opposes California's high-speed rail. Valadao for Congress
More domestic energy production, including oil and natural gas in California as well as solar and hydro power. Valadao for Congress
What the official record shows
His Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act became Public Law 115-59. Congress.gov
Contributions from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of his committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organisation type or designation of the contributing committee. Each line reconciles exactly to the committee's own filed total: 10,000 dollars on line 11B, 1,911,533.22 dollars on line 11C and 1,568,869.04 dollars on line 12. The rows sum to 3,490,402.26 dollars, which is a part of what his committee reports raising and not its total. Donations individuals made through WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table.
Race outlook
How election analysts rate this race
Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities.
The Stated Record analysisTilt Democratic
Based on 2 verified rating sources. 1 stale or missing rating was excluded.
DemocraticToss-upRepublican
Cook Political ReportToss Up
Cook Political Report assessed this Aug 25, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Inside ElectionsTilt Republican · stale
Inside Elections assessed this Dec 5, 2025; checked Sep 3, 2026. Stale ratings are shown for transparency but excluded from our synthesis.
Sabato's Crystal BallLeans Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Aug 26, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Our synthesis uses the median-style ordinal rule described in Methodology. It is our analysis, not another independent rating.
What to know
The race in context
Randy Villegas held a Bakersfield town hall in August as he campaigned against David Valadao, KVPR reported.
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Instagram: not foundThe campaign site links an X account and a Facebook page and no Instagram account; none was searched for beyond the site.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
Supports Medicare for All, calling health care a human right; would cap the prices of medical procedures and prescription drugs at rates in line with other major countries, and says any Medicare for All bill he signs will include dental and vision care.
His campaign says quality, affordable health care should be available to all Americans, favours a market-based approach with competitive choices, and says reforms should lower costs while keeping access for the elderly, the poor and people with pre-existing conditions.
Calls blanket detention and deportation unconstitutional and un-American, and wants a path to citizenship for undocumented residents. He would also work to bring home deported veterans and to address the poverty and instability that drive migration.
His campaign supports a “reasonable and responsible pathway to citizenship” for people seeking to come and people already here, a guest worker program for agriculture, and focusing enforcement on undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
Would create jobs building and repairing roads, bridges and drinking-water systems and bringing broadband to rural areas, citing Central Valley families without safe, affordable water from the tap.
His campaign says a safe and stable water supply is critical to the Central Valley and its agriculture, and that he will fight to address local needs during drought.
Would raise revenue by taxing the top 1 per cent of earners and wealth holders, raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage, end what he calls pointless tariffs, and break up monopolies while giving small businesses tax breaks.
His campaign says Washington must balance the budget and spend no more than it takes in, pairs spending cuts with a fairer tax code, opposes California's high-speed rail, and says regulation and taxes make it harder for small businesses to hire.
His campaign supports expanding domestic energy, including oil and natural gas production in California alongside solar and hydro power, and blames red tape and litigation for high energy costs.
Would make public colleges, career, technical and community, tuition free, take on student debt, build more local higher-education and apprenticeship centres, and pay teachers and school staff more.
His campaign opposes a one-size-fits-all federal approach, wants parents and educators given resources and flexibility, and supports expanding vocational and trade school options.
Would ban members of Congress from trading stocks and from becoming lobbyists, seek to end Citizens United, ban corporate PACs from buying influence, and impose term limits on Congress.
His campaign says government agencies should serve every American rather than bureaucrats, and that members of Congress should be transparent and accessible, spending their time in the community rather than with lobbyists and insiders in Washington.
Says inflation is putting seniors on fixed Social Security incomes at risk of falling below the poverty line, and that Social Security must be protected.
His campaign says Medicare and Social Security must be strengthened and preserved, warning that without changes neither can meet its promises to the next generation of retirees.
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
The Visalia Unified board raised both units' pay while he sat on it, and he voted for every agreement with them that came to a vote while he was present, all unanimously. In his first year he seconded the classified employees' 2022-23 agreement (June 28, 2022), which adjusted their salary schedule for the state minimum wage, raised it a further 6.4 per cent and paid $3,500 once to staff working six hours a day or more, pro-rated for others. He moved the teachers' 2023-24 agreement, which raised all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent (May 9, 2023), and voted for the classified employees' 2023-24 agreement, which raised their schedule 9.25 per cent (June 13, 2023); the classified unit includes custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers. The 2025-26 agreements added 1.25 per cent for teachers (May 23, 2025) and 0.76 per cent for classified staff (June 10, 2025). The 2024-25 agreements, which he also voted for and one of which he seconded, kept both units' 2023-24 salary schedules and gave each one fewer work day at the same pay. He also voted for two smaller classified agreements on consent: more paid hours and days for cafeteria staff (December 12, 2023), and a raise of at least 5 per cent for nutrition-services delivery staff from January 2025 (November 19, 2024). He was absent for three agreement votes: the teachers' 2022-23 agreement on July 19, 2022, a 7.56 per cent increase to all salary schedules with a $2,500 one-time payment for full-time staff, and both 2026-27 agreements, on June 9 and June 11, 2026, each approved 5-0 with two trustees absent: 3.25 per cent for teachers, and 1.85 per cent plus a $1,000 one-time payment for classified staff.
Limit: Wages did rise by board vote while he served, and his votes were for every raise that reached him. But every one of those votes was unanimous, and the minutes summarise motions and roll calls rather than debate, so they cannot show that he fought for the raises any more than his six colleagues did. The raises were negotiated by the district with the unions; a trustee's part is the vote.
His committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026 list 80 contributions from other political committees on line 11C, totalling 190,098.36 dollars, three transfers from two joint fundraising committees on line 12, totalling 57,917.02 dollars, and nothing from party committees. The FEC records an organisation type for nine of the contributing committees, five labour organisations and four membership organisations, and none as a corporation. The rest are leadership PACs, other candidates' campaign committees and PACs with no sponsoring organisation. The joint fundraising committees' own itemised donors passed through to him are individuals and two political committees, neither recorded as a corporation's PAC.
Limit: The test is the FEC's own record of each contributing committee: a PAC a corporation sponsors is registered with organisation type Corporation, and none of his is. The leadership PACs and other members' campaigns that gave to him can take corporate PAC money themselves, which the claim does not address, and spending by outside groups is not money his campaign received. The record runs to June 30, 2026; the October quarterly report is not yet due.
After the House passed its version of the reconciliation bill, he said he had told House leadership he would not support a final bill that reduced Medicaid coverage for children, seniors, people with disabilities or pregnant women.
“I would not support a final reconciliation bill that included any reduction in Medicaid coverage for our most vulnerable populations—children, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and pregnant women”
He voted Aye on the final bill on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190, 218-214), having voted Yea on House passage on May 22 (Roll Call 145, 215-214). The House-passed bill already shortened retroactive coverage, and by more: for every enrollee, children, pregnant women, seniors and people with disabilities included, Medicaid and CHIP would have paid for care only from the month before the month of application instead of the third month before (section 44122 of the engrossed bill). The release carrying his promise said of that bill: “This bill honors my commitment to protect Medicaid for our most vulnerable populations.” The final law, Public Law 119-21, shortens retroactive coverage by less for most of the groups he named, for applications from 2027: for everyone enrolled outside the adult expansion group, which is where children, pregnant women and people over 65 qualify, Medicaid will pay for care from the second month before the month of application instead of the third; for expansion adults, from the month before, as in the House bill (section 71112). Some adults with disabilities are in that group. The law's new community engagement requirement applies only to expansion adults aged 19 to 64 who are not pregnant, and exempts people who are medically frail or disabled and parents or caregivers of a child 13 or under or of a disabled person (section 71119). The enacted text contains no per-capita cap, one of the provisions he says he kept out.
Limit: The label rests on his own words, “any reduction”: the final law narrows the months of care Medicaid will cover before an application for the groups he named, and he voted for it. The case the other way is strong. The change is narrow, ends no one's eligibility and starts in 2027, and it is smaller for most of his groups than the one in the House bill, which he said honoured his commitment in the same statement that made the promise; by his own usage that day, a shorter retroactive window may not have been the reduction he meant. The work requirement was written to exclude the groups he named, and on July 3 he said he voted for the bill because it preserves Medicaid for children, pregnant women, the disabled and the elderly. Whether a shorter retroactive window is the kind of reduction his promise ruled out is a judgment for the owner.
Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21 creates the Rural Health Transformation Program and appropriates $10,000,000,000 for each fiscal year from 2026 to 2030, $50 billion in all, for allotments to states through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The program was not in the House-passed bill of May 22. It appears in the Senate Budget Committee's substitute text of June 27, 2025 at $25 billion, spread over fiscal years 2028 to 2032; the enacted law carries twice that. He voted Aye on the final bill on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190).
Limit: The enacted total is exactly the $50 billion he gives, and it is $25 billion more than the Senate's June 27 text, so the increase he describes is in the record. No record checked here shows what part his conversations played. The offices of Senators Murkowski and Collins each say they pushed for the $50 billion; neither names him. The money goes to every state by allotment, not to his district in particular, and any left unspent in October 2032 returns to the Treasury.
Section 50501 of Public Law 119-21 appropriates $1,000,000,000 to the Bureau of Reclamation, available until September 30, 2034, to restore or increase the capacity of existing Reclamation conveyance facilities and to increase the capacity of existing Reclamation surface water storage. None of it is reimbursable or subject to cost-sharing. He voted Aye on the final bill (Roll Call 190).
Limit: The appropriation exists at the figure and for the purpose he states. It is the Bureau of Reclamation's to spend “in a manner as determined by the Secretary of the Interior”, across the West rather than in his district, and the law's text cannot show who secured it. “Secured” is his account of his role, which no record checked here confirms or contradicts. The House bill he voted for in May carried more, in two sections: $2 billion for surface storage and $500 million for conveyance (sections 80203 and 80204). The enacted law merges them into the $1 billion he cites.
His campaign says he supports a reasonable and responsible pathway to citizenship, for people who want to come and for people already here, and that he will work on immigration reform until a solution is reached.
“David supports a reasonable and responsible pathway to citizenship for those wishing to enter our country and those already here.”
He cosponsored H.R. 15 in 2013, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, which offered registered provisional immigrant status to people living in the country unlawfully since before 2012, with later adjustment to permanent residence; its summary says they could then be naturalized in three years. He cosponsored the Dream Act of 2017 and was an original cosponsor of the USA Act of 2018, both offering conditional permanent residence to people brought to the country as minors. In June 2018 he voted No on the Securing America's Future Act (Roll Call 282, failed 193-231), which offered them a contingent nonimmigrant status, and Aye on the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act (Roll Call 297, failed 121-301), which offered people who arrived before 16 a renewable contingent status and a points-based route to immigrant status. On March 18, 2021 he voted Yea on House passage of the American Dream and Promise Act (Roll Call 91, 228-197), which offered conditional permanent residence to qualifying people brought to the country as minors and permanent residence to some holders of temporary protected status, and of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (Roll Call 93, 247-174), which he cosponsored and which created a certified agricultural worker status. Both passed the House and went no further. He cosponsored the Dignity Act in 2023 and was an original cosponsor of the Dignity Act of 2025; both were referred to subcommittee.
Limit: His votes and cosponsorships run the way his campaign says, from his first term to his current one. None of these bills became law. Most offer a provisional, conditional or contingent status first, and permanent residence, the step before citizenship, only after years. His office's release says the 2025 Dignity Act “grants legal status and a path to permanent residency for Dreamers.” The campaign page is undated and appears to predate 2023.
After his final vote on the 2025 reconciliation bill, he said it eliminates taxes on tips and overtime, expands the Child Tax Credit and enhances deductions for seniors.
“eliminating taxes on tips and overtime, expanding the Child Tax Credit, enhancing deductions for seniors”
He voted Aye on the final bill on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190), and it became Public Law 119-21. Workers can deduct up to $25,000 a year in tips and up to $12,500 in overtime pay ($25,000 on a joint return), counting only the part of overtime pay above their regular rate (sections 70201 and 70202). Both deductions shrink above $150,000 of income ($300,000 joint) and end after 2028. The Child Tax Credit rises from $2,000 to $2,200 per child (section 70104). People 65 and over get an extra $6,000 deduction through 2028, reduced above $75,000 of income, or $150,000 on a joint return (section 70103).
Limit: The tip and overtime breaks are capped deductions that end after 2028, so “eliminating” taxes on them overstates the law. The child credit and senior deduction are in the law as he says.
His campaign supports expanding domestic energy to cut dependence on foreign energy and save money, naming oil and natural gas in California as well as solar and hydro power.
“David supports expanding our domestic energy potential to reduce our dependence on foreign energy and save money here at home.”
He was an original cosponsor of the Protecting American Energy Production Act (H.R. 1121) in February 2023. It bars a president from declaring a moratorium on fracking unless Congress authorizes one. He voted Yea when it passed the House on March 20, 2024 (Roll Call 93, 229-188); it was then referred to a Senate committee. The same ban was in the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1), which also required at least four onshore oil and gas lease sales a year in each state with land available; he voted Yea when it passed the House on March 30, 2023 (Roll Call 182, 225-204). He voted Aye on the 2025 reconciliation law (Roll Call 190), which orders the Interior Department to immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales (section 50101 of Public Law 119-21).
Limit: The campaign page is undated. The same 2025 law ends the clean electricity production and investment credits for wind and solar facilities placed in service after 2027, unless construction began within 12 months of enactment (sections 70512 and 70513).
His campaign says that without improvements Social Security and Medicare will be unable to fully meet their promises to the next generation of retirees, and that he believes “we must act in order to strengthen and preserve these vital programs.”
“David, who believes we must act in order to strengthen and preserve these vital programs”
On February 27, 2023 he cosponsored H. Res. 109, which states that Social Security “should be preserved and protected for current beneficiaries, and for future generations to come.” It was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. He cosponsored the Social Security Fairness Act in every Congress he served from 2013 until it passed. He voted Yea when the House passed the 2023 bill on November 12, 2024 (Roll Call 456, 327-75), and it became Public Law 118-273 on January 5, 2025. It repealed the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset, which cut Social Security benefits for some people with a state or local government pension.
Limit: H. Res. 109 states a view and changes no law. The Fairness Act raised benefits, and the program's trustees say it hurt the retirement trust fund's finances. No Medicare vote was checked. The campaign page is undated.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jun 30, 2026
Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.
After voting for House passage of H.R. 1, he said he would not support a final bill that reduced Medicaid coverage for children, seniors, people with disabilities or pregnant women.
California Secretary of State. Certified list dated August 27, 2026. Lists Randy Villegas (Democratic, ballot designation Teacher/Business Owner) and David G. Valadao (Republican, Congressman/Dairy Farmer) for District 22, in that order.
Visalia Unified School District. The district's own board page, which lists "Randy Villegas Ph.D." as the member for Trustee Area 6: appointed 12/2021, elected 11/2022 and 11/2024, term ending 12/2028. This is the official source for his office; the campaign calls him a school board trustee without naming the district.
Visalia Unified School District. The archive the district's board-meetings page links for approved minutes, one folder per school year. Ninety-seven sets of minutes from December 2021 to June 2026 were read; thirty-seven of them are scanned images with no text layer and were read by optical character recognition.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. A scanned document with no text layer, read by optical character recognition. Cited from printed pages 3 to 6.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. A scanned document with no text layer, read by optical character recognition. Cited from printed page 13, item 13.1.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. A scanned document with no text layer, read by optical character recognition. Cited from printed pages 6 and 7.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 15.1, printed pages 15 and 16.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from items 10.4 and 10.5, printed pages 15 and 16.
Visalia Unified School District. Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. A scanned document read by optical character recognition. Cited from printed pages 7 and 8, the consent agenda and items 6.16 and 6.17.
Visalia Unified School District. The signed agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 77). A scan, read by OCR. The item cover puts the cost at $944,178.96.
Visalia Unified School District. The enclosure behind the classified employees' 2022-23 agreement (Encl. No. 54). Its tentative agreement of May 27, 2022, a scanned page read by optical character recognition (PDF page 754), adjusts the salary schedule for the increase in California's minimum wage, then raises it 6.4 per cent for 2022-23, and provides a one-time $3,500 to unit members employed as of June 3, 2022 who work six hours a day or more and worked at least 75% of 2021-22, pro-rated for the rest. PDF page 763 is headed as the 2022-23 salary schedule reflecting a 6.4 per cent increase.
Visalia Unified School District. The enclosure behind the teachers' 2022-23 agreement (Encl. No. 9). Its public disclosure (PDF page 69) describes a 7.56 per cent salary and benefit increase and a $2,500 one-time payment for full-time employees, and its certificated salary schedules, scanned pages read by optical character recognition (from PDF page 55), are headed "2022-23 - Effective July 1, 2022 with 7.56% COLA". The minutes of the meeting give the increase as effective July 1, 2021; the packet's disclosure and schedules place it in 2022-23.
Visalia Unified School District. The item enclosure behind the teachers' agreement. Its tentative agreement of April 28, 2023 increases all certificated salary schedules by 10 per cent for 2023-24: the anticipated 8.13 per cent statutory cost-of-living adjustment plus 1.87 per cent.
Visalia Unified School District. The item enclosure behind the classified employees' agreement. Its tentative agreement of May 23, 2023, a scanned page read by optical character recognition (PDF page 323), increases the classified salary schedule by 9.25 per cent for 2023-24. The unit's classifications in the same enclosure include custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers.
Visalia Unified School District. The enclosures behind both 2024-25 agreements. The classified agreement keeps the 2023-24 salary schedule status quo for 2024-25; the teachers' agreement funds step and column movement and keeps 2023-24 pay rates while reducing the work year by one day. The classified agreement's own terms are cited from the district's meeting portal.
Visalia Unified School District. The public disclosure for the teachers' 2025-26 agreement: a 1.25 per cent cost-of-living adjustment for all certificated employees, step and column costs, and the district covering a 9 per cent rise in health and welfare costs.
Visalia Unified School District. The classified employees' tentative agreement of May 19, 2025: the 2025-26 salary schedule reflects a 0.76 per cent increase.
Villegas for Congress. Campaign-controlled source, identified by its "Paid for by Villegas for Congress" line and by the website his committee filed with the FEC (VILLEGASFORCONGRESS.COM). Links X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky accounts. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
Villegas for Congress. Campaign-controlled. The site's issue addresses do not match their titles: the page at /issues/healthcare is titled Cost of living, the page at /issues/immigration is Healthcare, and the page at /issues/immigration-1 is Immigration. The short summaries on the Issues index are unedited template text; the full pages were read.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of candidate H6CA22190, a Democratic challenger for California's 22nd district; its filed website is VILLEGASFORCONGRESS.COM.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee only, covering May 14 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026 and read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 as the most recent report, not amended.
Federal Election Commission. Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on September 23, 2026: 80 line-11C rows, 64 line-12 rows (61 of them memo entries restating the joint fundraising committees' own donors) and no line-11B rows, reconciled to the committee's filed totals. The FEC's committee record for each contributor supplied its organisation type.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of candidate H2CA20094, the Republican incumbent. The committee's FEC record lists no website; the campaign site was identified by its "Paid for by Valadao for Congress" line.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee only, covering May 14 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026 and read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 as the most recent report, not amended.
Federal Election Commission. Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on September 23, 2026: 2 line-11B rows, 882 line-11C rows (9 memo) and 1,071 line-12 rows (1,016 memo), reconciled to the committee's filed totals.
Valadao for Congress. Campaign-controlled source, identified by its "Paid for by Valadao for Congress" line. Links an X account (@dgvaladao) and a Facebook page. Its news section's most recent release is dated January 12, 2022.
Valadao for Congress. Campaign-controlled biography. Undated; it describes his earlier House service in the 21st district and his current Appropriations subcommittee.
Valadao for Congress. Campaign-controlled. The campaign's issue pages are undated and appear to predate 2023: the jobs page refers to the 21st Congressional District and the spending page to a national debt of $23 trillion. They are the campaign's positions as published on September 23, 2026.
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao. His congressional office's press release, in his own words. Used for his statement about the terms on which he would support a final reconciliation bill.
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao. His congressional office's press release on his final vote for H.R. 1, in his own words. It makes several claims about what he secured in the law.
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao. His congressional office's release on the Dignity Act of 2025. It also quotes the bill's lead sponsor, whose words are not his and are not used as his position.
Congress.gov. Resolved from Congress.gov's listing for California's 22nd district in the 119th Congress and name-checked. Used for his terms: the 113th to 115th Congresses for the 21st district, the 117th for the 21st, and the 118th and 119th for the 22nd; and for his 93 sponsored items.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. The Clerk's member page, used for his committee and subcommittee assignments in the 119th Congress.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of March 18, 2021, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 228-197.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of March 18, 2021, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 247-174.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of May 22, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 215-214, one member voting present.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of July 3, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Agreed to 218-214; the bill became law the next day.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The enacted text, read in full from GovInfo. Used for sections 50501 (water conveyance and storage), 71112 (retroactive coverage), 71119 (community engagement requirement) and 71401 (Rural Health Transformation Program). Also used for sections 50101 (onshore lease sales), 70103, 70104, 70201 and 70202 (senior deduction, child credit, tips, overtime), and 70512 and 70513 (wind and solar credits).
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The text the House passed on May 22, 2025, read in full from GovInfo. Used for section 44122 (retroactive coverage) and sections 80203 and 80204 (surface water storage and conveyance). A search of the full text for "Rural Health Transformation" returns nothing.
U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. A substitute for H.R. 1 intended to be proposed by the committee's chairman, published on the committee's site; the file was created on June 27, 2025. Its section 71401 (PDF page 739) appropriates $10 billion for each of fiscal years 2028 and 2029, $2 billion for each of 2030 and 2031 and $1 billion for 2032 to the Rural Health Transformation Program, $25 billion in all.
Office of Senator Lisa Murkowski. She calls herself one of the lead advocates to double the fund from $25 billion to $50 billion. The release does not mention Valadao.
Congress.gov. Cosponsorship (he joined on October 30, 2013, one of 200 cosponsors) and its summary as introduced: registered provisional immigrant status for people in the country unlawfully since before 2012, with later adjustment to lawful permanent residence, then naturalization after three years for those lawfully present for ten years first. Not enacted.
Congress.gov. Cosponsorship (he joined on September 13, 2017) and its summary as introduced: conditional permanent resident status for qualifying people who entered the United States before 18. Not enacted.
Congress.gov. Cosponsorship (an original cosponsor on January 16, 2018) and its summary as introduced: conditional permanent resident status for qualifying people who entered the United States before 18. Referred to subcommittee; not enacted.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of June 21, 2018, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Failed 193-231. The bill's summary on Congress.gov describes a contingent nonimmigrant status for certain people who entered the United States as minors.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of June 27, 2018, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Failed 121-301. The bill's summary on Congress.gov describes a six-year renewable contingent nonimmigrant status for certain people who entered the United States before 16, and adjustment to immigrant status on a point system.
Congress.gov. Its summary as passed by the House: conditional permanent resident status for qualifying people who entered the United States as minors, and permanent resident status for certain TPS and DED holders. Passed the House; not enacted.
Congress.gov. Cosponsorship (he joined on March 9, 2021) and the House-passed summary: a certified agricultural worker status for farmworkers and changes to the H-2A programme. Passed the House; not enacted.
Congress.gov. His bill, which became Public Law 115-59 on September 15, 2017. By Congress.gov's latest-action record it is the only one of his sponsored bills to become law under its own number.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan; he was an original cosponsor on February 21, 2023. Passed the House on March 20, 2024 and was referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The House-engrossed text on GovInfo (BILLS-118hr1121eh) was read for the fracking moratorium ban.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of March 20, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 229-188.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise. The House-engrossed text on GovInfo (BILLS-118hr1eh) was read for section 10002 (fracking moratorium) and section 20101 (onshore lease sales).
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of March 30, 2023, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 225-204.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Claudia Tenney; he cosponsored it on February 27, 2023. Its text, read on GovInfo (BILLS-118hres109ih), shows it was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Garret Graves; he cosponsored it on January 20, 2023. Became Public Law 118-273. Its summary says it repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for people who also receive a pension such as one from a state or local government.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of November 12, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 327-75, one present.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The enacted text: section 2 repeals the government pension offset and section 3 the windfall elimination provisions. Approved January 5, 2025.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Section III.B says the Social Security Fairness Act increases benefits for people who worked in jobs not covered by Social Security and has a significant negative effect on the OASI Trust Fund.
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The details
Election facts. Original sources.
Election date
November 3, 2026
Launch rating
Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 25, 2026
Ballot source updated
Certified list dated August 27, 2026; reviewed September 2, 2026.
Candidate field
Printed candidates checked against official election records.