Sam T. Liccardo

Democrat · CA-16 · U.S. House

Bio

Samuel Theodore Liccardo is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the U.S. representative from California's 16th congressional district. Previously, he served as the 65th mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Liccardo was elected mayor in November 2014. He was reelected in 2018 with 75.8% of the vote. As the leader of the California Big City Mayors Coalition, Liccardo advocated on statewide issues including homelessness and COVID-19 response.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 374 of 437 by time served
Age: 56

District offices

Half Moon Bay, CA

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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

2023

$4.4M

2024

$7.8M

2025

$7.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $3.4M – $13.7M
Liabilities: $1.0M – $2.0M
Net worth: $1.4M – $12.7M
Since 2023: +$2.6M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 50 assets reported

Residential Property$1.0M – $5.0M

CalPERS Pension Sam Liccardo ⇒ CalPERS$250k – $500k

Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Fidelity ZERO Large Cap Index Fund (FNILX)$100k – $250k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$100k – $250k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$100k – $250k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ SWPPX$100k – $250k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$100k – $250k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$100k – $250k

Capital Gains, Interest None Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Fidelity Select Utilities Grow$50k – $100k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ FHLB (9/2026)$50k – $100k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Fund$50k – $100k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$50k – $100k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$50k – $100k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ SWVXX$50k – $100k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$50k – $100k

Fidelity 457 ⇒ BrokerageLink ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Joint Trading Account ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Joint Trading Account ⇒ U.S. Treasuries$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO)$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$15k – $50k

Spouse Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ)$15k – $50k

Spouse Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$15k – $50k

TreasuryDirect ⇒ Series I Savings Bond$15k – $50k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ American States Water Company Common Stock (AWR)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Common Stock (BMY)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ FHLB (3/2030)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF (SCHY)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Merck & Company, Inc. Common Stock (MRK)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Roth IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ NovoCure Limited - Ordinary Shares (NVCR)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab SEP IRA -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF$1k – $15k

Schwab ⇒ Schwab Trading Account -- Sam Liccardo ⇒ Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD)$1k – $15k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)$1k – $15k

Spouse Schwab IRA ⇒ Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL)$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+0.61

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.97

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.82

Crime & Policing

D+0.71

Defense & Veterans

D+0.70

Economy & Labor

D+0.76

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.51

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+1.00

Government & Democracy

D+0.78

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.33

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

Sam T. Liccardo's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Green Party

92%Closest

Democratic Party

90%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

90%

Communist Party USA

88%

Libertarian Party

55%

Republican Party

27%

On the political map

Sam T. Liccardo (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 Liccardosits 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
Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Oversight and Investigations Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

Most and least aligned members

Treating Liccardo'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.