Robert Garcia

Democrat · CA-42 · U.S. House

Bio

Robert Julio Garcia is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 42nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 28th mayor of Long Beach, California, from 2014 to 2022. He was both the city's youngest and first elected openly LGBT mayor, as well as the first Latino to hold the office. He is the second person of color to be mayor of Long Beach, after Republican Eunice Sato, a Japanese American who served from 1980 to 1982. A former member of the Long Beach City Council, he was vice mayor from 2012 to 2014.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 300 of 437 by time served
Age: 48

District offices

Long Beach, CA · 562-512-8489

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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

2021

$108k

2022

$141k

2023

$201k

2024

$268k

2025

$226k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $151k – $365k
Liabilities: $15k – $50k
Net worth: $101k – $350k
Since 2021: +$118k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

California Public Retirement System$100k – $250k

The California State Teachers' Retirement System$50k – $100k

Chase Bank Account$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+0.38

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.95

Guns

D+0.75

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.75

Defense & Veterans

D+0.46

Economy & Labor

D+0.69

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.32

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.82

Education

D+0.90

Government & Democracy

D+0.91

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

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

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

90%

Communist Party USA

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

88%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

28%

On the political map

Robert Garcia (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 Garciasits 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 Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformRanking Membercenter · 47 members
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Highways and Transit

Most and least aligned members

Treating Garcia'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.