George Whitesides
Democrat · CA-27 · U.S. House
Bio
George Thomas Whitesides is an American politician and businessman who has served as the U.S. representative for California's 27th congressional district since 2025. He was previously chief of staff at NASA and CEO of Virgin Galactic. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 375 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 52
- Palmdale, CA · 661-839-0532
- Santa Clarita, CA · 661-568-4855
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.
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
George Whitesides'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
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Caucuses & committees
Where Whitesidessits 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 Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Whitesides'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
The Kid Rock Flyby Controversy and the Erosion of Military ProfessionalismDuring Congressional testimony from Department of Defense leadership last week, Representative George Whitesides asked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “How does canceling a command-initiated review support a culture of accountability?” But before the secre…
War on the Rocks · May 22, 2026
86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With TrumpIn a country where the cost of living skyrockets while wages remain low, where a few broken bones can leave you in financial ruin, and where the young feel they have no chance at any upward mobility, 86 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a resolution …
The New Republic · November 21, 2025- Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifts 11 California races toward Democrats, 1 toward GOP
Voters in the Golden State passed Proposition 50, a ballot measure that will allow lawmakers to redraw congressional lines ahead of the midterm elections. The state’s congressional Democrats — including Reps. Jim Costa, Adam Gray, Josh Harder, Doug LaMalfa, D…
Freerepublic.com · November 5, 2025
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