John Garamendi

Democrat · CA-8 · U.S. House

Bio

John Raymond Garamendi is an American businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009.

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Record of service

In office: 16.8 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 76 of 437 by time served
Age: 81

District offices

Fairfield, CA · 707-438-1822
Vallejo, CA · 707-645-1888
Richmond, CA · 510-620-1001

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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

2019

$4.2M

2020

$4.7M

2021

$4.8M

2022

$4.9M

2023

$4.8M

2024

$4.7M

2025

$3.7M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.6M – $6.5M
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: $1.1M – $6.3M
Since 2019: −$474k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 11 assets reported

Ranch$1.0M – $5.0M

Wells Fargo Bank Account$250k – $500k

Bank of America Account$100k – $250k

Grupe Squaw Valley LLC$100k – $250k

US Bank$100k – $250k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ PIMCO Income Fund Insti Class (PIMIX)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ JPMorgan Hedged Equity Fund I Class (JHEQX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ MFS Technology Fund Class I (MTCIX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ Oakmark Fund Institutional Class (OANMX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ Allspring Money Market Fund - Premier Class (WMPXX)$1k – $15k

Wells Fargo 401k ⇒ First Eagle Gold Fund Class I (FEGIX)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.59

Healthcare

D+0.76

Immigration & Border

D+0.74

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.43

Defense & Veterans

D+0.08

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.18

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.74

Government & Democracy

D+0.78

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.99

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

John Garamendi's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

83%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

John Garamendi (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Garamendisits 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

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Garamendi'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.