Rep. Darrell Issa [R-CA49]
U.S. Representative, California’s 49^th District

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	49^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Jan 1, 1954 / 56 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 09-08-09 1:22:35 to 1:25:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Darrell Issa has represented California’s 49^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Darrell Issa:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 49^th	(was preceeded by Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA53])
2001-2002	U.S. Representative	California’s 48^th	(was preceeded by Ron Packard)

Sponsorship Analysis

Issa is a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Issa is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Issa tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Issa’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Issa, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Issa and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Issa.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Issa's bills without Issa returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Darrell Issa missed 227 (4%) of 6346 votes since Jan 3, 2001. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Issa in 2007-2008 was $13,000 from employees of BAE Systems. Darrell Issa’s net worth was between $160,615,042 and $526,300,001 in 2007, according to Issa’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Issa.

Committee Membership

Darrell Issa sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Member, House Committee on the Judiciary

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Darrell Issa has sponsored 83 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 63 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Issa has co-sponsored 866 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Issa and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Issa’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3137: To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide clarification relating to the authority of the United States Postal Service to accept donations as an additional source of funding for commemorative plaques.
	H.R. 3736: Minerals Management Service Reform Act
	H.R. 3687: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.
	H.Res. 14: Recognizing the importance of the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in combating human smuggling and trafficking in persons, and commending the Department of Justice for increasing the rate of human smuggling and trafficking prosecutions.
	H.R. 2545: CIA Act

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