
Mike Levin
Democrat · CA-49 · U.S. House
Bio
Michael Ted Levin is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin represents most of San Diego's North County, including Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, as well as a portion of southern Orange County. He is currently serving his fourth term. Levin flipped the historically Republican-held seat in 2018 after the retirement of Darrell Issa and has won four consecutive elections in the competitive district. His legislative work has focused on spent nuclear fuel removal at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, veterans' affairs, and environmental policy.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 195 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 47
- Oceanside, CA · 760-599-5000
- Dana Point, CA · 949-281-2449
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
- $1.6M – $3.3M
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- $581k – $2.8M
- Since 2019
- +$1.4M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 20 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
Mike Levin'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
Mike Levin (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Levinsits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Levin'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
'How Cruel': Child Advocates Rip Trump's Plan to Gut Head StartAdvocates for early education and vulnerable children are denouncing a new rule issued Thursday by the administration of President Donald Trump that would severely weaken the Head Start program relied on by families and communities nationwide."At a time when …
Common Dreams · August 7, 2026
Top Finance Committee Democrat Rips Trump's New Canada Tariffs as 'Yet Another Shakedown'Critics are piling on President Donald Trump for once again picking a fight with the United States' top trading partner by moving to slap 50% tariffs on certain imported Canadian goods.Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, s…
Common Dreams · July 21, 2026
'Canada gave us a free bridge': California Congressman adds voice to open the Gordie Howe bridge chorus'There's a brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada that is finished, it's ready, and it's sitting there empty because Donald Trump will not let it open,' says Mike Levin
National Post · July 1, 2026
Congressman pinpoints alarming election comment Trump made 'out loud': 'Becomes a crime'Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) warned this week that President Donald Trump has openly acknowledged directing federal prosecutors to investigate elections whose results he dislikes — a statement the congressman argued the president made plainly and even boasted a…
Raw Story · June 28, 2026
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