U.S. House

California
District 22

Election day: November 3, 2026

Two candidates are on the U.S. House ballot in California's District 22.

Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Democratic

Ratings checked October 1, 2026

Updated October 10, 2026

At a glance

A quick look at the candidates

One stated goal, one checked action and the top committee funding for each candidate. Read the detailed guide for the rest.

What the funding line covers

Funding shows up to the two largest listed committee categories, without individual-donor conduit entries.

Record checked Oct 10, 2026. Money dates are shown separately.

Randy Villegas

Democratic

One stated goal Medicare for All, including dental and vision care, and caps on the prices of medical procedures and prescription drugs.

One checked action Dec 9, 2021. Appointed provisionally to the Visalia Unified board for Trustee Area 6, four votes to one with one abstention.

Campaign cash $571,792 on Jun 30, 2026, principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $57,917; Leadership PACs: $54,000.

Through June 30, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

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.

David G. Valadao

Republican

One stated goal A pathway to citizenship, a guest worker program for agriculture, and immigration enforcement focused on people who have committed serious crimes.

One checked action Sep 15, 2017. His Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act became Public Law 115-59.

Campaign cash $3,365,587 on Jun 30, 2026, principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $1,568,869; Corporation PACs: $532,371.

Through June 30, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

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.

Who is running?

Printed ballot candidates

Randy VillegasDemocratic
David G. ValadaoRepublican

Source: California Secretary of State certified candidate list

Checked September 2, 2026

Read the detailed guide, goals, actions and campaign funding

Voter guide

The candidates, side by side

Goals come from each campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

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; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filings it covers, and some notes also compare the rows with the campaign's own FEC summary.

Randy Villegas

Background

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.
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.
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.
His ballot designation is Teacher/Business Owner; his campaign's economy page describes him as a family auto shop owner.

What they say they want to do

Medicare for All, including dental and vision care, and caps on the prices of medical procedures and prescription drugs.
A path to citizenship for undocumented residents and an end to blanket detention and deportation.
Higher taxes on the top 1 per cent of earners and wealth holders, and a federal minimum wage above $7.25.
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.
Tuition-free public colleges, career, technical and community, and action on student debt.

What the official record shows

Dec 9, 2021 Appointed provisionally to the Visalia Unified board for Trustee Area 6, four votes to one with one abstention.
Jun 28, 2022 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.
May 9, 2023 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.
Jun 13, 2023 Voted for the classified employees' 2023-24 agreement, which raised their salary schedule 9.25 per cent. It carried unanimously.
Jun 10, 2025 Voted for the classified employees' 2025-26 agreement, which raised their salary schedule 0.76 per cent. It carried unanimously.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 2 committees	$57,917
Leadership PACs 21 committees	$54,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 10 committees	$35,548
PAC - Qualified 12 committees	$35,500
Labor Organization PACs 5 committees	$23,000
House 12 committees	$20,500
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees	$10,950
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 3 committees	$6,100
Committees the FEC records no type for 1 committee	$3,500
PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee	$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

David G. Valadao

Background

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.
The House Clerk lists him on the Appropriations Committee, on its Agriculture, Defense and Legislative Branch subcommittees, and on the Agriculture Committee.
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.
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.

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.
A safe and stable water supply for the Central Valley and its farms.
Market-based health care reform that lowers costs while keeping access for the elderly, the poor and people with pre-existing conditions.
A balanced budget, with spending cuts and a fairer tax code; he opposes California's high-speed rail.
More domestic energy production, including oil and natural gas in California as well as solar and hydro power.

What the official record shows

Sep 15, 2017 His Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act became Public Law 115-59.
Mar 18, 2021 Voted Yea on House passage of the American Dream and Promise Act and of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which he cosponsored. Both passed the House and went no further.
May 22, 2025 Voted Yea on House passage of H.R. 1, the 2025 reconciliation bill, which carried 215-214.
Jul 3, 2025 Voted Aye on concurring in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1, 218-214; it became Public Law 119-21 the next day.
Jul 15, 2025 Became an original cosponsor of the Dignity Act of 2025, having cosponsored the 2023 version.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 8 committees	$1,568,869
Corporation PACs 136 committees	$532,371
Leadership PACs 91 committees	$414,510
Trade Association PACs 91 committees	$361,500
PAC - Qualified 45 committees	$172,500
House 58 committees	$130,402
Membership Organization PACs 29 committees	$112,500
Cooperative PACs 18 committees	$67,750
Labor Organization PACs 13 committees	$52,500
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 4 committees	$19,000
PAC - Nonqualified 4 committees	$17,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 5 committees	$11,500
Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only) 3 committees	$11,000
Party committees 2 committees	$10,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 2 committees	$7,500
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 1 committee	$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

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 an approved rating source sees this race

Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities. A rating appears only when that publisher allows the use.

Sabato's Crystal BallLeans Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Sep 29, 2026; checked Oct 1, 2026.

Sabato's Crystal Ball allows this rating to be used with credit, so their name and date stay on the row. A Stated Record comparison is added only when two or more approved ratings are current. The rule is in Methodology.

What to know

The race in context

Randy Villegas held a Bakersfield town hall in August as he campaigned against David Valadao, KVPR reported.
As of Sep 3, 2026.

Latest record

Updates to this race desk.

Public statementPublished Oct 10, 2026

CA-22 debate claims checked against the record

Eight claims from the October 6 KGET debate now have claim pages. David Valadao's votes on the Epstein files, impeachment, government funding, Pell grants for job training and the 2016 WIIN Act match what he said. Interior did give $540 million of the 2025 law's water money to Central Valley projects, not just his district, and no record shows his part in that. The 2026 spending laws fund Bakersfield senior housing, wells and Arvin projects he requested; agencies still award the grants. Visalia Unified's graduation rate rose while Randy Villegas served, as rates rose statewide.

Named in this record: David G. Valadao, Randy Villegas

Candidate records

The field, without the campaign gloss

Current public roles come from government sources. Campaign-finance IDs come from the FEC.

Democratic

Randy Villegas

Visalia Unified School District trustee for Trustee Area 6, appointed in December 2021 and elected in 2022 and 2024.

FEC candidate: H6CA22190
Principal committee: C00902379

Public profiles

X @Villegas_CA22Public profile linked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete historical archive.
Instagram @villegasforcongressPublic profile linked by the campaign site. Post availability and account metadata can change.
Facebook VillegasforCongressPublic profile linked by the campaign site. Post availability and account metadata can change.

Republican

David G. Valadao

Current U.S. representative for California's 22nd Congressional District; Congress.gov records House service from 2013 to 2019 and again since 2021.

FEC candidate: H2CA20094
Principal committee: C00499392

Public profiles

X @dgvaladaoPublic profile linked by the campaign site. His congressional office keeps separate accounts, which are not this one.
Facebook ValadaoforCongressPublic profile linked by the campaign site. Post availability and account metadata can change.
Instagram: not foundThe campaign site links an X account and a Facebook page and no Instagram account; none was searched for beyond the site.

Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise.

How social posts are used

Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.

Issue comparison

What each campaign says

Each campaign's own positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.

Health care

Villegas's campaign backs Medicare for All and price caps; Valadao's backs market-based choices and lower costs. Valadao voted for the 2025 law, which has the extra $25 billion for rural health he says his talks added; no record shows their part. He promised not to back a final bill reducing Medicaid coverage for children, seniors or pregnant women; from 2027 the law covers fewer months of care before they apply, but ends no one's eligibility.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Immigration

Villegas's campaign backs a path to citizenship and calls blanket detention and deportation unconstitutional; Valadao's backs a path to citizenship, a farm guest worker program and enforcement aimed at undocumented immigrants who commit serious crimes. Since 2013 Valadao has cosponsored and voted for bills giving legal status to Dreamers and others, most with a provisional status first. None became law.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Water and infrastructure

Villegas's campaign would create jobs fixing roads, bridges and water systems, and bring rural broadband. Valadao's campaign calls a safe, stable water supply critical to the Central Valley and its farms. Valadao voted for a 2025 law with $1 billion for western water storage and conveyance, and for 2026 spending laws funding wells and water projects he requested. The 2025 law's text cannot show who secured that money, and agencies still award the grants.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Taxes, spending and the economy

Villegas's campaign would tax the top 1 per cent, raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage and end what he calls pointless tariffs. Valadao's campaign wants a balanced budget, spending cuts and a fairer tax code. Valadao voted for the 2025 law, which raises the child credit to $2,200 and allows capped deductions for tips and overtime through 2028. He also voted for the 2025 and 2026 funding bills checked; earlier years were not checked.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Energy

Villegas's campaign says any move to renewable energy must guarantee oil and gas workers well-paid, secure jobs; Valadao's backs more oil and gas in California alongside solar and hydro power. Valadao voted for House-passed bills barring a president from banning fracking, and for the 2025 law resuming oil and gas lease sales. That law ends wind and solar credits for plants opened after 2027, with an exception.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

Says any transition to renewable energy must guarantee oil and gas workers well-paid, secure jobs.

David G. Valadao

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.

Education

Villegas's campaign would make public colleges tuition-free and pay teachers and school staff more. Valadao's campaign opposes a one-size-fits-all federal approach and backs more trade school options. On the Visalia school board, Villegas voted for every pay deal he was present for; each passed unanimously, so the minutes cannot show his part beyond his vote. Valadao voted for the 2025 law creating Workforce Pell Grants, which also narrows regular Pell for some students.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Money and power in Washington

Villegas's campaign would ban stock trading by members of Congress, end Citizens United and set term limits; Valadao's says members of Congress should be open and spend their time in the community, not with lobbyists. Villegas's campaign says it takes no corporate PAC money; his filings through June 30, 2026 list 80 donations from other committees, none recorded by the FEC as a corporation. Some of those committees can take corporate PAC money themselves.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Social Security and Medicare

Villegas's campaign says Social Security must be protected, as inflation puts seniors on fixed incomes at risk of poverty; Valadao's says Social Security and Medicare must be strengthened and preserved. Valadao cosponsored the Social Security Fairness Act from 2013 on and voted for it; it became law in 2025, raising benefits for some people with public pensions. The program's trustees say it hurt the trust fund's finances, and no Medicare vote was checked.

What each campaign says

Randy Villegas

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.

David G. Valadao

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.

Words and record

Where statements meet official action

Each card sets one thing a candidate says beside their own official record, with one label from a fixed list and its limit. No card says why someone did something.

How the cards work

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.

Randy Villegas

School staff wages as a trustee

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says that as a school board trustee he has fought for and raised wages for teachers, custodians, nutrition workers and bus drivers.

What the record shows · Jun 11, 2026

The Visalia Unified board raised teacher and staff pay while he served, and he voted for every agreement he was present for, each of which passed unanimously.

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What they say

His campaign says that as a school board trustee he has fought for and raised wages for teachers, custodians, nutrition workers and bus drivers.

“As a school board trustee, I have fought for and successfully raised wages for our teachers, custodians, nutritional workers and bus drivers”

What the record shows · Jun 11, 2026

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.

Randy Villegas

Money: no corporate PACs

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign's home page says it takes no corporate PAC money.

What the record shows · Jun 30, 2026

His FEC filings through June 30, 2026 list 80 contributions from other committees, and the FEC records none of those committees as a corporation.

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What they say

His campaign's home page says it takes no corporate PAC money.

“No Corporate PACs. Just People Like You.”

What the record shows · Jun 30, 2026

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.

Randy Villegas

Graduation rates as a trustee

Matches stated direction

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Villegas said the school board he serves on achieved real results, including higher graduation rates.

What the record shows

Visalia Unified's graduation rate rose from 90.8% in 2021 to 95.5% in 2025, with a dip in 2023; state rates rose too, and the data can't show the board's part.

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What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Villegas said the school board he serves on achieved real results, including higher graduation rates.

What the record shows

Visalia Unified's four-year graduation rate was 90.8% for the class of 2021, the last before he joined the board in December 2021, and 95.5% for the class of 2025, the latest. In between it fell to 90.4% for the class of 2023. The statewide rate rose from 83.6% to 87.5% over the same years.

Limit: The district's rate did rise while he served, as rates rose statewide. The data cannot show what part the board, or he, played.

David G. Valadao

Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable

Record does not bear out the claim

What they say

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”

What the record shows · Jul 3, 2025

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.

David G. Valadao

The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program

Matches stated record claim

What they say

He said that after his conversations an additional $25 billion was added to the new Rural Health Transformation Program, bringing it to $50 billion.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

The final law has $50 billion for the program, $25 billion more than the Senate's June text, but no record shows what part his conversations played.

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What they say

He said that after his conversations an additional $25 billion was added to the new Rural Health Transformation Program, bringing it to $50 billion.

“an additional $25 billion was added to the newly established Rural Health Transformation Program”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

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.

David G. Valadao

$1 billion for western water storage and conveyance

Matches stated record claim

What they say

He said he secured $1 billion in western water storage and conveyance funding in the reconciliation law.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

The 2025 law he voted for gives the Bureau of Reclamation $1 billion for water storage and conveyance across the West, but its text can't show who secured it.

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What they say

He said he secured $1 billion in western water storage and conveyance funding in the reconciliation law.

“I was able to secure $1 billion in western water storage and conveyance funding”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

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.

David G. Valadao

Immigration: a pathway to legal status

Matches stated direction

What they say

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.

What the record shows · Jul 15, 2025

Since 2013 he has cosponsored and voted for bills offering legal status to Dreamers and others, most with a provisional status first, and none became law.

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What they say

“David supports a reasonable and responsible pathway to citizenship for those wishing to enter our country and those already here.”

What the record shows · Jul 15, 2025

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.

David G. Valadao

Tax breaks in the 2025 reconciliation law

Matches stated direction

What they say

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.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

The law lets workers deduct capped amounts of tips and overtime pay through 2028, raises the child credit from $2,000 to $2,200 and adds a $6,000 deduction for seniors.

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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”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

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.

David G. Valadao

Expanding domestic oil and gas production

Matches stated direction

What they say

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.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He backed the 2025 oil/gas lease-sale law with limits on wind/solar credits, and a fracking-ban restriction that passed only the House. The credit cutoff has an exception.

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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.”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

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).

David G. Valadao

Voting to release the Epstein files

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said he voted to release the Epstein files.

What the record shows · Nov 18, 2025

He voted for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed the House 427-1 on November 18, 2025 and became law the next day; earlier procedural votes were not checked.

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What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said he voted to release the Epstein files.

What the record shows · Nov 18, 2025

He voted Aye on November 18, 2025, when the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405) 427-1 (Roll Call 289). It became Public Law 119-38 the next day. It orders the Attorney General to make public the Justice Department's unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein.

Limit: This is the House vote that passed the bill. His earlier procedural votes on the files were not checked.

David G. Valadao

His 2021 vote to impeach President Trump

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Asked in the October 6 KGET debate whether he still stands by his 2021 vote to impeach President Trump, Valadao said he made his decisions and stands by them, and that he works with whoever is president.

What the record shows · Jan 13, 2021

In January 2021 he was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump; whether he still stands by that vote is his own account.

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What the record shows · Jan 13, 2021

On January 13, 2021 he voted Yea on H. Res. 24, impeaching President Trump (Roll Call 17). It passed 232-197, with 10 Republicans voting Yea.

Limit: The vote is on the record. Whether he still stands by it is his own account.

David G. Valadao

Votes to keep the government funded

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said he is not one of those who shut down the government and that he votes to fund it.

What the record shows · Jul 21, 2026

He voted for the 2025 and 2026 stopgap funding bills and the 2026 consolidated spending bill checked here; earlier years were not checked.

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In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said he is not one of those who shut down the government and that he votes to fund it.

What the record shows · Jul 21, 2026

He voted Yea on the stopgap funding bills the House passed on March 11, 2025 (Roll Call 70, 217-213) and September 19, 2025 (Roll Call 281, 217-212), and on the Senate's version of the second, agreed to on November 12, 2025 (Roll Call 285, 222-209). He voted Yea on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 on February 3, 2026 (Roll Call 53, 217-214) and on a stopgap for fiscal 2027 on July 21, 2026 (Roll Call 272, 220-205).

Limit: Only his 2025 and 2026 votes on stopgaps and the 2026 consolidated spending bill were checked. Earlier years were not.

David G. Valadao

Pell grants for short job-training programs

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said the 2025 reconciliation law he voted for improved Pell grants, so young people can go to school to learn trades such as plumbing.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

The law creates Workforce Pell Grants for short, approved job-training programs from July 2026, and also narrows regular Pell for some students.

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What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said the 2025 reconciliation law he voted for improved Pell grants, so young people can go to school to learn trades such as plumbing.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

Section 83002 of Public Law 119-21 creates Workforce Pell Grants from July 1, 2026, for job-training programs of at least 150 but under 600 clock hours, lasting at least 8 but under 15 weeks, that the state's governor and the Education Department approve. The same law ends regular Pell grants from July 2026 for students whose student aid index is at least twice the maximum grant, or whose non-federal grants cover their full cost (sections 83001 and 83004). He voted Aye on the final bill (Roll Call 190).

Limit: Workforce Pell starts with the 2026-27 school year, and a program qualifies only after state and federal approval. The same law narrows regular Pell for some students.

David G. Valadao

$540 million for Central Valley water projects

Matches stated direction

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said he brought over $500 million to the district this year alone, including $500 million to help the Central Valley develop more water infrastructure, money he tied to the 2025 reconciliation law.

What the record shows · Mar 17, 2026

In March 2026 Interior gave $540 million from the 2025 law he voted for to water projects across the Central Valley, not just his district; no record shows his part.

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What the record shows · Mar 17, 2026

On March 17, 2026 the Interior Department gave $540 million of the law's $1 billion for Bureau of Reclamation water storage and conveyance to Central Valley projects: $235 million for the Delta-Mendota Canal, $200 million for the Friant-Kern Canal, $50 million for the San Luis Canal, $15 million for a Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority pumping plant and $40 million to plan raising Shasta Dam. The $1 billion is in section 50501 of Public Law 119-21, which he voted for (Roll Call 190).

Limit: Interior's $540 million matches his figure, but it goes to projects the length of the Central Valley, not just his district. Interior picked them, and no record checked here shows his part.

David G. Valadao

The 2016 WIIN Act and Delta water

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said that at the end of 2016, under the Obama administration, they passed the WIIN Act with changes that let them move water through the Delta.

What the record shows · Dec 16, 2016

He voted for the WIIN Act, law since December 2016, which told agencies to maximize Delta pumping within fish limits; most of its California part expired in 2021.

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In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said that at the end of 2016, under the Obama administration, they passed the WIIN Act with changes that let them move water through the Delta.

What the record shows · Dec 16, 2016

He voted Aye when the House passed the WIIN Act on December 8, 2016, 360-61 (Roll Call 622), and it became Public Law 114-322 on December 16, 2016. Its California water subtitle tells federal agencies to provide the most water practicable to Central Valley Project contractors, and to run the south Delta pumps at the most negative river flow the fish biological opinions allow, to maximize supplies, unless that harms listed fish more than those opinions expected or breaks state law (sections 4001 and 4002).

Limit: The law changed how the pumps are run; it does not show how much more water moved. Most of the California subtitle expired five years after enactment, in December 2021.

David G. Valadao

Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 6 KGET debate, Valadao said that through the appropriations process he helped with a seniors' building coming to Kern County, with roads and with wells, and that his appropriations helped communities such as Arvin, including a project bringing water to Arvin's edge to help its wells.

What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

Two 2026 spending laws he voted for fund his requests for Bakersfield senior housing, two wells, an Arvin street and an Arvin-Edison water district project; agencies still award the grants.

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What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

Two 2026 spending laws he voted for (Roll Calls 7 and 53) fund projects their explanatory statements list him as requesting, including $7,575,000 for the Kern County Housing Authority's Bakersfield Senior Center affordable housing, $1,250,000 for a street project in Arvin, $2,000,000 each for a new well in Kings County and a replacement well in McFarland, and $2,000,000 for an Arvin-Edison Water Storage District water supply project. They are Public Laws 119-74 and 119-75. The same tables list him for four more road projects worth $13,000,000.

Limit: The tables name him as the House member who asked for each project; agencies still award the grants. He did not name the Arvin water project, so the Arvin-Edison one shown here may not be the one he meant.

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.

Candidate	Cycle receipts	Cycle disbursements	Cash on hand	Debt owed
Randy VillegasC00902379	$897,368	$662,613	$571,792	$0
David G. ValadaoC00499392	$694,188	$209,178	$3,365,587	$0

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Randy Villegas: July Quarterly 2026, coverage May 14, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, received Jul 15, 2026, file 1995697, image 202607159875701165.

David G. Valadao: July Quarterly 2026, coverage May 14, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, received Jul 15, 2026, file 1996880, image 202607159880541188.

Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 23, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.

Chronology

How the field took shape

Mar 18, 2021
House passes two immigration bills
Valadao voted Yea on House passage of the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Neither became law.
Dec 9, 2021
Villegas appointed to the Visalia Unified board
The board provisionally appointed him to fill the Trustee Area 6 vacancy until the November 2022 election.
May 9, 2023
Teachers' 2023-24 agreement approved
Villegas moved approval of the agreement raising all certificated salary schedules 10 per cent; it carried unanimously.
May 22, 2025
Valadao sets terms for his reconciliation vote
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.
Jul 4, 2025
The reconciliation act becomes law
H.R. 1 became Public Law 119-21. Valadao voted Aye on the final House vote the day before.
Jul 15, 2025
Dignity Act of 2025 introduced
Valadao was one of its original cosponsors.
Jul 15, 2026
July quarterly reports filed
Both principal campaign committees filed their reports for May 14 to June 30, 2026 on the same day.
Aug 27, 2026
Official candidate list certified
The California Secretary of State's certified list for the November 3 general election names both candidates for the 22nd district.

The details

Election facts. Original sources.

Election date: November 3, 2026
Added: September 2026 launch set
Ballot source updated: Certified list dated August 27, 2026; reviewed September 2, 2026.
Candidate field: Printed candidates checked against official election records.

Coverage

What this page includes, and what is not yet included.

As of Nov 11, 2026. Only what passed a source check is listed. How coverage works.

BallotIncluded
2 printed candidates, checked September 2, 2026 against the official election record.
Race outlookIncluded
1 of 1 specialist rating is current as of Nov 11, 2026.
Reported contextIncluded
1 dated development with original reporting attached.
Words and recordIncluded
17 statement-to-action comparisons across 2 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.
Campaign financeIncluded
FEC filing snapshots for 2 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.
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Sources131 source records

Snapshot as of Nov 11, 2026. The live page may have changed: https://statedrecord.com/races/california-us-house-22-2026

How we use sources

California Secretary of State certified candidate list (document)
Official certified list of candidates, November 3, 2026 general election
California Secretary of State · Published Aug 27, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official election record
For: Election facts, ratings and race context; Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
How these races were chosenhttps://statedrecord.com/methodology#race-selection
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
Sabato's Crystal Ball ratingshttps://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2026-house/
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
KVPRhttps://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2026-08-21/democratic-house-candidate-randy-villegas-pitches-himself-to-voters-ahead-of-midterms
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
Board of Educationhttps://www.vusd.org/boe
Visalia Unified School District · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official office record
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: Graduation rates as a trustee
Campaign home pagehttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Randy Villegas: Money: no corporate PACs
David G. Valadao, member recordhttps://api.congress.gov/v3/member/V000129
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official office record
For: Candidate roles and profiles; David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
Campaign home pagehttps://valadaoforcongress.com/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles
Special board meeting minutes, December 9, 2021https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-Qrxo-6iqly9l4qRXAjM5VWxzrGe7sL/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Dec 9, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Meet Randyhttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/about
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled biography. Undated page, retrieved September 23, 2026.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money
Issues: Jobs and the economyhttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/jobs-the-economy
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Water and infrastructure; Taxes, spending and the economy; Energy
Issues: Healthcarehttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/immigration
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled. Titled Healthcare although its address says immigration; see the note on the cost-of-living page.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Health care
Issues: Immigrationhttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/immigration-1
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled. The campaign's immigration page.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Immigration
Issues: Cost of livinghttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/healthcare
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Taxes, spending and the economy; Social Security and Medicare
Issues: Fight political corruptionhttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/fight-political-corruption
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Money and power in Washington
Issues: Education and traininghttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/education-training
Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled. Carries the one claim about his own record found on the site, on staff wages as a school board trustee.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Education; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, June 28, 2022https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hVMV3jWcvwLG8eh6V9zia4oQT9bhPNjd/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 28, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Board agenda packet, June 28, 2022: VUSD and CSEA Chapter 83 tentative agreementhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1qbl3cyp6MM770BsXYdeC2CxPw91m6F/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 28, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, May 9, 2023https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hB1SEQaSyWTVIU8ct8VERI4N34Bv9mgp/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published May 9, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 15.1, printed pages 15 and 16.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Board agenda packet, May 9, 2023: VUSD and VUTA tentative agreementhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQttE7VtPaHeIlwocQrGN1QJSiRdzTNq/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published May 9, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Regular board meeting minutes, June 13, 2023https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SzGVIPTxRf48Fo_oD6QVWB17WxkBRVD0/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 13, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 11.1.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Board agenda packet, June 13, 2023: VUSD and CSEA Chapter 83 tentative agreementhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAVE3cBcbS_QXvRzWhCX_WdLIIRItysH/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 13, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, June 10, 2025https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GyDhEJPQdML0CSNfAQmoY-FJzA9G9_3t/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 11.5.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Board agenda packet, June 10, 2025: VUSD and CSEA agreement for 2025-26https://drive.google.com/file/d/15krCA4GfNQSFJiOZ79iX-iPeXmPMS7iU/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The classified employees' tentative agreement of May 19, 2025: the 2025-26 salary schedule reflects a 0.76 per cent increase.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Classified 2025-26 tentative agreement, June 10, 2025https://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/df75fd27-fb92-4f44-9e46-0be4986b5acc
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
The enclosure behind the classified 2025-26 agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 174).
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS, receipts from political committees (lines 11B, 11C and 12)https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00902379&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
fec filing
For: Randy Villegas: background, goals, record and money; Randy Villegas: Money: no corporate PACs
Representative David G. Valadaohttps://clerk.house.gov/members/V000129
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Clerk's member page, used for his committee and subcommittee assignments in the 119th Congress.
official office record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
About Davidhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/about-david/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled biography. Undated; it describes his earlier House service in the 21st district and his current Appropriations subcommittee.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
H.R. 624, Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/624
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
Issues: Immigrationhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/immigration/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated. See the note on the healthcare page.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; Immigration; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
Issues: Waterhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/water/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; Water and infrastructure
Issues: Healthcarehttps://valadaoforcongress.com/healthcare/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; Health care
Issues: Spendinghttps://valadaoforcongress.com/spending/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated. Cites a national debt of $23 trillion.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; Taxes, spending and the economy
Issues: Energyhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/energy/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; Energy; David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production
Roll Call 91, H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2021, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202191
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Recorded vote of March 18, 2021, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 228-197.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Roll Call 93, H.R. 1603, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202193
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Recorded vote of March 18, 2021, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 247-174.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 1603, Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1603
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
Roll Call 145, H.R. 1, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025145
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Roll Call 190, H.R. 1, on concurring in the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable; David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program; David G. Valadao: $1 billion for western water storage and conveyance; David G. Valadao: Tax breaks in the 2025 reconciliation law; David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production; David G. Valadao: Pell grants for short job-training programs; David G. Valadao: $540 million for Central Valley water projects; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1, 119th Congress)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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).
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable; David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program; David G. Valadao: $1 billion for western water storage and conveyance; David G. Valadao: Tax breaks in the 2025 reconciliation law; David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production; David G. Valadao: Pell grants for short job-training programs; David G. Valadao: $540 million for Central Valley water projects; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 4393, Dignity Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4393
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Cosponsorship: an original cosponsor on July 15, 2025, one of 39. Referred to subcommittee.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 3599, Dignity Act of 2023https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3599
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Cosponsorship: he joined on September 21, 2023, one of 38 cosponsors. Referred to subcommittee; not enacted.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money; David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
VALADAO FOR CONGRESS, receipts from political committees (lines 11B, 11C and 12)https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00499392&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
fec filing
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
VALADAO FOR CONGRESS, committee recordhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00499392/
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
fec filing
For: David G. Valadao: background, goals, record and money
Issues: Jobs and the economyhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/jobs-and-the-economy/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated. Refers to the 21st Congressional District.
candidate statement
For: Taxes, spending and the economy
Issues: Educationhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/education/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated.
candidate statement
For: Education
Issues: Reforming Washingtonhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/reforming-washington/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated.
candidate statement
For: Money and power in Washington
Issues: Seniorshttps://valadaoforcongress.com/seniors/
Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled; undated.
candidate statement
For: Social Security and Medicare; David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
Special board meeting minutes, May 23, 2025https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yyYNaEmpgrO0Q7TGtbaArThh1JzCZL1p/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published May 23, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 2.1.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Special meeting agenda, May 23, 2025: VUSD and VUTA agreement for 2025-26https://drive.google.com/file/d/15rElU0SbR8DGjOtb_2T7Gz9d_FYNgDOI/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published May 23, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, June 11, 2024https://drive.google.com/file/d/12_kbri4yraL-SenZ37lOOi_aMEbnbfrO/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 11, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Board agenda packet, June 11, 2024: 2024-25 tentative agreementshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1bGnOmWxYImiX3wCxEQ5kzMJWImBqzSj5/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 11, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Special board meeting minutes, July 19, 2022https://drive.google.com/file/d/1by0gCdTTd4u2CXi5SYULQ4Xnxpoby7rN/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jul 19, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Special meeting agenda packet, July 19, 2022: VUSD and VUTA agreement for 2022-23https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vZgmvyq-xun3qIv6NNyv6WP5R7VRPic/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jul 19, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, June 9, 2026https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IF2SMOFW6sngSgvZif1K6XwZSX96A-HP/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 9, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 11.5.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Special board meeting minutes, June 11, 2026https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ck7hCy_-mhz07WR_P0J6g6Ys_GyBufW_/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 11, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes, published by the district in its Google Drive minutes archive. Cited from item 10.3.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, November 19, 2024https://drive.google.com/file/d/1meWBVx6SBpf4ABBxS58I0L7O_0p8H-Ad/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Nov 19, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Classified 2024-25 tentative agreement and disclosure, June 11, 2024https://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/de8ef439-c644-4ad7-8489-a5a8f6e45d6f
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 11, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The enclosure behind the classified 2024-25 agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 144).
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Regular board meeting minutes, December 12, 2023https://drive.google.com/file/d/19tUVpTjolSACR7NuMyP6jyClLfAEmvYF/view
Visalia Unified School District · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Approved board minutes. Cited from item 12, the consent agenda, and item 12.16.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Consent item 12.16, December 12, 2023: CSEA agreement on Nutritional Services hours and dayshttps://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/9ce8a966-2590-41fd-8b2d-db91f477d5ec
Visalia Unified School District · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Consent item 6.17, November 19, 2024: reclassification of delivery person positionshttps://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/b632a8c9-00b7-4a43-bf1d-d46f48367fa7
Visalia Unified School District · Published Nov 19, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The signed agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 166). Page 2 is a scan, read by OCR.
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Teachers' 2026-27 tentative agreement and disclosure, June 9, 2026https://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/79089a0c-c8fc-47aa-9c81-7bfd122d5655
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 9, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The enclosure behind the teachers' 2026-27 agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 199).
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Classified 2026-27 tentative agreement, June 11, 2026https://vusd.community.diligentoneplatform.com/document/57d76514-1612-4e6f-95b2-6620c6c9ca69
Visalia Unified School District · Published Jun 11, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The enclosure behind the classified 2026-27 agreement, from the district's meeting portal (meeting 200).
official legislative record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
Board meeting minutes archivehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mb6qUYw61qJrVyYUsAyVrmBJ6rfZ9HXZ
Visalia Unified School District · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official office record
For: Randy Villegas: School staff wages as a trustee
VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS, committee recordhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00902379/
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Principal campaign committee of candidate H6CA22190, a Democratic challenger for California's 22nd district; its filed website is VILLEGASFORCONGRESS.COM.
fec filing
For: Randy Villegas: Money: no corporate PACs
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Villegas on school board results, 51:12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=3072s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
51:31-51:37. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: Randy Villegas: Graduation rates as a trustee
Four-year graduation rates, 2020-21 (data file) (document)
California Department of Education · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Visalia Unified district row, all schools including charters: 2,177 students in the cohort, 1,976 graduates, 90.8%. State row: 83.6%.
official office record
For: Randy Villegas: Graduation rates as a trustee
Four-year graduation rates, 2022-23 (data file) (document)
California Department of Education · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Visalia Unified district row, all schools including charters: 2,298 students in the cohort, 2,078 graduates, 90.4%.
official office record
For: Randy Villegas: Graduation rates as a trustee
Four-year graduation rates, 2024-25 (data file) (document)
California Department of Education · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Visalia Unified district row, all schools including charters: 2,238 students in the cohort, 2,138 graduates, 95.5%. State row: 87.5%.
official office record
California Department of Education, 2024-25 graduation rates
For: Randy Villegas: Graduation rates as a trustee; CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Congressman Valadao Releases Statement on Passage of the House Version of Reconciliation Billhttps://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1979
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao · Published May 22, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 1 as passed by the House, May 22, 2025 (engrossed text)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr1eh/html/BILLS-119hr1eh.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published May 22, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Medicaid coverage for the most vulnerable; David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program; David G. Valadao: $1 billion for western water storage and conveyance
Congressman Valadao Releases Statement After House Budget Reconciliation Votehttps://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3103
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao · Published Jul 3, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program; David G. Valadao: $1 billion for western water storage and conveyance; David G. Valadao: Tax breaks in the 2025 reconciliation law
Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1, Senate Budget Committee text of June 27, 2025 (document)
U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget · Published Jun 27, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program
Murkowski on Rural Health Transformation Fund: "Alaska has an extraordinary opportunity."https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/murkowski-on-rural-health-transformation-fund-alaska-has-an-extraordinary-opportunity
Office of Senator Lisa Murkowski · Published Dec 29, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
She calls herself one of the lead advocates to double the fund from $25 billion to $50 billion. The release does not mention Valadao.
official office record
For: David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program
Senator Collins Announces $190 Million for Maine Rural Hospitals and Providers through Rural Health Transformation Programhttps://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-announces-190-million-for-maine-rural-hospitals-and-providers-through-rural-health-transformation-program
Office of Senator Susan Collins · Published Dec 29, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
It says she proposed the fund and pushed to expand it to $50 billion. The release does not mention Valadao.
official office record
For: David G. Valadao: The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program
H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (113th Congress)https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/15
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
H.R. 3440, Dream Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3440
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
H.R. 4796, USA Act of 2018https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4796
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
Roll Call 282, H.R. 4760, Securing America's Future Act of 2018, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2018282
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
Roll Call 297, H.R. 6136, Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2018297
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2021https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
Congressman Valadao Works to Reform Our Nation's Immigration Systemhttps://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3117
Office of Congressman David G. Valadao · Published Jul 16, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Immigration: a pathway to legal status
H.R. 1121, Protecting American Energy Production Act (118th Congress)https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1121
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production
Roll Call 93, H.R. 1121, Protecting American Energy Production Act, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202493
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Recorded vote of March 20, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 229-188.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production
H.R. 1, Lower Energy Costs Act (118th Congress)https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
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).
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production
Roll Call 182, H.R. 1, Lower Energy Costs Act, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023182
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Recorded vote of March 30, 2023, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 225-204.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Expanding domestic oil and gas production
H. Res. 109, Social Security should be preserved and protected (118th Congress)https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/109
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
H.R. 1795, Social Security Fairness Act of 2013https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1795
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
H.R. 973, Social Security Fairness Act of 2015https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/973
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
H.R. 1205, Social Security Fairness Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1205
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
H.R. 82, Social Security Fairness Act of 2021https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/82
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
H.R. 82, Social Security Fairness Act of 2023https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/82
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
Roll Call 456, H.R. 82, Social Security Fairness Act of 2023, on motion to suspend the rules and passhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024456
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
Recorded vote of November 12, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 327-75, one present.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
Public Law 118-273 (H.R. 82, 118th Congress)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ273/html/PLAW-118publ273.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 5, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
The enacted text: section 2 repeals the government pension offset and section 3 the windfall elimination provisions. Approved January 5, 2025.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
The 2025 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds (H. Doc. 119-62) (document)
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jun 23, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026
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.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Preserving Social Security
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on the Epstein files vote, 28:24https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=1704s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
28:27-28:29. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Voting to release the Epstein files
Roll Call 289, H.R. 4405, Epstein Files Transparency Act, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025289
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of November 18, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 427-1 under suspension of the rules.
official legislative record
Clerk Roll Call 289 (2025), Epstein Files Transparency Act
For: David G. Valadao: Voting to release the Epstein files; CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Public Law 119-38 (H.R. 4405, 119th Congress), Epstein Files Transparency Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/html/PLAW-119publ38.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Nov 19, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The enacted text, signed November 19, 2025. Section 2 orders the Attorney General to make public the Justice Department's unclassified Epstein records.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Voting to release the Epstein files
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on his impeachment vote, 28:47https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=1727s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
28:52-29:28 (question and answer). Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: His 2021 vote to impeach President Trump
Roll Call 17, H. Res. 24, impeaching President Trumphttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202117
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of January 13, 2021, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Agreed to 232-197; Republicans voted 10 Yea and 197 Nay.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: His 2021 vote to impeach President Trump
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on funding the government, 26:18https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=1578s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
26:32-26:39. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded
Roll Call 70, H.R. 1968, Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202570
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of March 11, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 217-213.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded
Roll Call 281, H.R. 5371, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025281
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of September 19, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 217-212.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded
Roll Call 285, H.R. 5371, on concurring in the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025285
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of November 12, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Agreed to 222-209.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded
Roll Call 53, H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, on concurring in the Senate amendmentshttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202653
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of February 3, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Agreed to 217-214.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded; David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
Roll Call 272, H.R. 9770, continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026272
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of July 21, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 220-205.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Votes to keep the government funded
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on what the 2025 law carried, 26:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=1560s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
26:03-26:19. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Pell grants for short job-training programs; David G. Valadao: $540 million for Central Valley water projects
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on Central Valley water money, 20:20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=1220s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
20:26-20:42. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: $540 million for Central Valley water projects
Interior Announces $889 Million Investment in Western Water Infrastructurehttps://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-announces-889-million-investment-western-water-infrastructure-through
U.S. Department of the Interior · Published Mar 17, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Interior's allocation of the 2025 law's $1 billion for water storage and conveyance: $540 million to Central Valley projects, listed by canal and dam.
official office record
Interior: $889 million for western water, including $540 million for California
For: David G. Valadao: $540 million for Central Valley water projects; CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on the 2016 WIIN Act, 47:14https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=2834s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
47:29-47:35. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: The 2016 WIIN Act and Delta water
Roll Call 622, S. 612 (the WIIN Act), on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2016622
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of December 8, 2016, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 360-61; the House passed the Senate bill with its WIIN Act amendment.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: The 2016 WIIN Act and Delta water
S. 612, House amendment of December 8, 2016https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s612eah/html/BILLS-114s612eah.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Dec 8, 2016 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The text the House passed, which replaced the Senate bill with the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: The 2016 WIIN Act and Delta water
Public Law 114-322 (S. 612, 114th Congress), the WIIN Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-114publ322/html/PLAW-114publ322.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Dec 16, 2016 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The enacted text. Used for sections 4001, 4002 and 4013 of its California water subtitle.
official legislative record
Public Law 114-322, the WIIN Act
For: David G. Valadao: The 2016 WIIN Act and Delta water; CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on local projects, 13:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=780s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
13:03-13:18. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debate, Valadao on Arvin, 47:54https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ&t=2874s
KGET 17 News, with KSEE24 · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
47:57-48:14. Paraphrased, not quoted: one copy of YouTube's English captions; no second English transcript.
candidate statement
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
Explanatory statement on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2026-01-22/html/CREC-2026-01-22-pt2-PgH1353-2.htm
Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The housing and transportation project tables list him as the House requester of $7,575,000 for the Bakersfield Senior Center affordable housing, $1,250,000 for Arvin's 4th Street project and four more road projects worth $13,000,000.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
FY26 Interior and Environment project table, as enacted (document)
Senate Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The project table for the Interior division of Public Law 119-74, built by GPO. It lists him as House requester of $2,000,000 each for the Arvin-Edison project and wells in McFarland and Kings County; Senator Padilla also requested the Kings County well.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
Public Law 119-74 (H.R. 6938, 119th Congress)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ74/html/PLAW-119publ74.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 23, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Signed January 23, 2026. Section 4 gives the House explanatory statement the effect of a conference report's; Division C is the Interior and Environment act.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
Public Law 119-75 (H.R. 7148, 119th Congress), Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Feb 3, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Signed February 3, 2026. Section 4 gives the House explanatory statement the effect of a conference report's; Division D is the transportation and housing act.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
Roll Call 7, H.R. 6938, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20267
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Recorded vote of January 8, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by his member ID. Passed 397-28.
official legislative record
For: David G. Valadao: Local projects he requested in the 2026 spending laws
VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)
Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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. Committee C00902379; July Quarterly 2026; coverage 2026-05-14 to 2026-06-30; received 2026-07-15; file 1995697; image 202607159875701165.
fec filing
For: Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Campaign finance
VALADAO FOR CONGRESS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)
Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
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. Committee C00499392; July Quarterly 2026; coverage 2026-05-14 to 2026-06-30; received 2026-07-15; file 1996880; image 202607159880541188.
fec filing
For: Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Campaign finance
Our claim page: Valadao's Epstein files votehttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-epstein-files-vote
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: Valadao's 2021 impeachment votehttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-impeachment-vote
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: Valadao's government funding voteshttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-government-funding-votes
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: Workforce Pell grantshttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-workforce-pell
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: $540 million for Central Valley waterhttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-central-valley-water-2026
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: the 2016 WIIN Acthttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-wiin-act-2016
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: local projects he requestedhttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/valadao-community-projects-2026
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
Our claim page: Visalia Unified graduation rateshttps://statedrecord.com/claims/california-us-house-22-2026/villegas-graduation-rates
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record
KGET 17/KSEE24 CA-22 debatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTfMhDMlpQ
For: CA-22 debate claims checked against the record

A quick look at the candidates

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House passes two immigration bills

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Teachers' 2023-24 agreement approved

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Dignity Act of 2025 introduced

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