Jay Obernolte

Republican · CA-23 · U.S. House

Bio

Jay Phillip Obernolte is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for California's 23rd district since 2021, when it was numbered as the 8th district. A Republican, he was previously a member of the California State Assembly representing the 33rd district. Before serving in the Assembly, Obernolte served on the city council and was the mayor of Big Bear Lake, California. He is the owner, president, and technical director of FarSight Studios, an American video game developer.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 244 of 437 by time served
Age: 56

District offices

Hesperia, CA · 760-247-1815

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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

$90.2M

2022

$77.2M

2023

$94.9M

2024

$94.8M

2025

$116.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $52.2M – $186.1M
Liabilities: $1.0M – $5.0M
Net worth: $47.2M – $185.1M
Since 2021: +$25.9M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 12 assets reported

FarSight Studios, Inc., 100% Interest$25.0M – $50.0M

FarSight Technologies, Inc., 100% Interest$5.0M – $25.0M

Vanguard brokerage account ⇒ Vanguard 500 Index Fd Admiral Shs (VFIAX)$5.0M – $25.0M

Vanguard brokerage account ⇒ Vanguard Tax Managed Small Cap Fund Admiral Cl (VTMSX)$5.0M – $25.0M

Vanguard brokerage account ⇒ Vanguard Tax-Managed Capital Appreciation Fund Admiral Shares$5.0M – $25.0M

Vanguard brokerage account ⇒ Vanguard Tax-Managed Fund Balanced Fund (VTMFX)$5.0M – $25.0M

Rental property$1.0M – $5.0M

Vanguard IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fd Admiral Shs (VTSAX)$1.0M – $5.0M

Powell Trust Deed$100k – $1.0M

Ascensus SIMPLE ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fd Admiral Shs (VTSAX)$50k – $100k

Rondell G. Yates and Cynthia L. Yates Trust Deed$1k – $15k

Vanguard brokerage account ⇒ Vanguard Federal Money Market$1 – $200

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+0.81

Healthcare

R+0.63

Immigration & Border

R+0.84

Guns

R+0.81

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.80

Defense & Veterans

R+0.53

Economy & Labor

R+0.71

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.73

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.18

Education

R+0.96

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

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

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

91%Closest

64%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Jay Obernolte (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 Obernoltesits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Communications and Technology Health
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Research and Technology (Chair)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Obernolte'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.