Darrell Issa

Republican · CA-48 · U.S. House

Bio

Darrell Edward Issa is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 48th congressional district. He represented the 50th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2019, representing two districts primarily covering North County in the San Diego area: first the 48th district for one term and then the 49th district for eight terms. From January 2011 to January 2015, he chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Record of service

In office: 23.6 years · not continuous, returned 2021
First took office: 2001 (12 terms)
Seniority: 44 of 437 by time served
Age: 72

District offices

Escondido, CA · 760-304-7575
Santee, CA · 760-304-7575
Temecula, CA · 760-304-7575

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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

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$50.1M

2022

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$157.7M

2023

$243.6M

2024

$294.0M

2025

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$347.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $141.4M – $553.4M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $141.4M – $553.4M
Since 2021: +$297.3M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 50 assets reported

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ Proshares Ultrapro QQQ$50.0M – over $50M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ B of A Finance LLC L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 2/19/27$25.0M – $50.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN C01 9/30/26$25.0M – $50.0M

Ocean Collection LP$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ B of A Finance LLC L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 01/22/27$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ B of A Finance LLC L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 2/24/27$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ B Oof A Finance LLC L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 02/10/27$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ BNP Paribas T-IDN C01 10/30/26$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ BNP Paribas T-IDN C01 9/30/26$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ Citigroup Global Markets L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 01/15/27$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ HSBC USA Inc L/O TC-YN NDX RTY 2/16/27$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund (SOXX)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund - I Shares (JMGRX)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Pacer US Large Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (COWG)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$5.0M – $25.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (VFLO)$5.0M – $25.0M

1800 Carillon Blvd, LP$1.0M – $5.0M

212 Main St LP$1.0M – $5.0M

25 D St SE LP$1.0M – $5.0M

Tahoe Beach LP$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ B of A Finance LLC L/O TC-YN RTY 06/10/26$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ BNP Paribas T-IDN C01 12/29/26$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ BNP Paribas T-IDN CO1 5/30/25$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN C01 12/29/26$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 10/31/25$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 3/31/25$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 9/30/25$1.0M – $5.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ UBS Bank USA Core Savings$1.0M – $5.0M

1200 Harbor Dr, LP$500k – $1.0M

Interest Rate Cap Transaction UBS$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ BNP Paribas T-IDN CO1 6/30/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ GS Finance Corp t-IDN CO1 04/17/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ Insured Sweep Program$500k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 5/30/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 6/30/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN CO1 7/31/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 1-Investment account-496 ⇒ JP Morgan Chase Financial T-IDN XLE 3/21/25$100k – $1.0M

Account 2 Investment account-838 ⇒ Federated Hermes Government Obligations Fund AVR Shares$500k – $1.0M

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

R+0.78

Healthcare

R+0.73

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.92

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.79

Defense & Veterans

R+0.74

Economy & Labor

R+0.78

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.16

Education

R+0.87

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+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

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

90%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Darrell Issa (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 Issasits 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

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Middle East and North Africa Oversight and Intelligence
House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet (Chair)The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Investigations and Oversight Research and Technology

Most and least aligned members

Treating Issa'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.