Darrell Issa
Republican · CA-48 · U.S. House
CA-48 — U.S. House
Likely D 87%Darrell Issa is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Marni von Wilpert vs. Jim Desmond. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
D +2 points of win probability since September.
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years · not continuous, returned 2021
- First took office
- 2001 (12 terms)
- Seniority
- 44 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 72
- Escondido, CA · 760-304-7575
- Santee, CA · 760-304-7575
- Temecula, CA · 760-304-7575
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
- $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
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
Darrell Issa'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
Darrell Issa (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNsCongress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), H.R. 10364, a bill that would give copyright own…
EFF · October 2, 2026
New US Bill Would Force ISPs, DNS Providers & VPNs to Block Piracy SitesA newly introduced US bill would create a system for copyright holders to obtain court orders blocking foreign piracy websites. The proposal goes beyond traditional ISP blocking by potentially requiring major DNS and VPN providers to enforce the same restrict…
Sankakucomplex.com · September 20, 2026- New US Bill Would Force ISPs, DNS Providers & VPNs to Block Piracy Sites
A newly introduced US bill would create a system for copyright holders to obtain court orders blocking foreign piracy websites. The proposal goes beyond traditional ISP blocking by potentially requiring major DNS and VPN providers to enforce the same restrict…
Sankakucomplex.com · September 20, 2026 
Groups Slam Issa Bill to Expedite Site Blocking OrdersRepresentative Darrell Issa introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) on Monday, a bill aimed at creating an expedited judicial mechanism for copyright owners to obtain orders blocking access to certain foreign piracy sites. While the official t…
IPWatchdog.com · September 16, 2026
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