Salud O. Carbajal
Democrat · CA-24 · U.S. House
Bio
Salud Ortiz Carbajal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 24th congressional district since 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and his district covers Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 161 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 61
- San Luis Obispo, CA · 805-546-8348
- Santa Barbara, CA · 805-730-1710
- Ventura, CA · 805-730-1710
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $682k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $800k – $1.6M
- Net worth
- −$918k – $680k
- Since 2019
- +$173k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Salud O. Carbajal's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Salud O. Carbajal (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Carbajalsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Carbajal's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist SaysCritics lit into US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he demanded on Tuesday that Congress pass President Donald Trump's plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget.While testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hegseth once again made a pitch f…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2026
Elizabeth Warren Is Right About the Democrats’ Big ProblemElizabeth Warren gave an excellent speech January 12 (text; video) urging Democrats not to “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone, especially the rich and powerful who might finance our candidates…. When Democrats water down their economic platform…
The New Republic · January 16, 2026
86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With TrumpIn a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution …
The New Republic · November 21, 2025- US lawmakers urge Trump to roll back H-1B visa crackdown, warn of impact on India ties
-snip- Representative Jimmy Panetta, along with Congress members Ami Bera, Salud Carbajal, and Julie Johnson, wrote to the President expressing concern over the September 19 proclamation titled “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers," as report…
Freerepublic.com · November 1, 2025
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