Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Jim Costa
Jim Costa is a Democratic U.S. representative from California, in Congress since 2005, who voted with most Democrats on 90% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 1 bill become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 10772 Frontline Innovation ActOct 9, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
- H.Res. 1611 Expressing support for the designation of October 8, 2026, as "National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day".Oct 5, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- H.Res. 1356 A resolution commemorating the Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities, and for other purposes.Jun 10, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- H.Res. 1190 Supporting the designation of April 19 through April 25, 2026, as "National Crime Victims' Rights Week".Apr 20, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 7609 Rural Development Modernization ActFeb 20, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, for a period to…
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4389 (112th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19 East Merced Street in Fowler, California, as the "Cecil E. Bolt Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 6023 (117th) Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021Became law
- H.R. 3022 (110th) Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Wilderness Act of 2008Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 119 (110th) Supporting the mission and goals of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in order to increase public awareness of the rights, needs, and concerns of victims…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 109 (111th) Supporting the mission and goals of 2009 National Crime Victims' Rights week to increase public awareness of the rights, needs, and concerns of victims and…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1104 (111th) Supporting the mission and goals of 2010 National Crime Victims' Rights Week to increase public awareness of the rights, needs, and concerns of victims and…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1457 (111th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the one-year anniversary of the Government of Iran's fraudulent manipulation of Iranian elections, the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1053 (110th) Supporting the mission and goals of National Crime Victims' Rights week in order to increase public awareness of the rights, needs, and concerns of victims…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on AgricultureForestry and Horticulture, Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsEurope
Elections Rep. Costa has won
Rep. Costa has won 11 U.S. House elections (2004–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 1.5 to 48.7 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has California’s 21st district done while Rep. Costa served?
2023 to 2024 in CA-21: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in California’s 21st district during Costa’s time representing it (2023 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. CA-21 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Costa’s term so far (2023 and 2024) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Visalia office425 E. Oak Ave, Suite 202, Visalia, CA 93291
Phone 559-749-9330 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Fresno office2440 Tulare Street, Suite 420, Fresno, CA 93721
Phone 559-495-1620 · Fax 559-495-1027 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries C001059-visalia, C001059-fresno (2 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, costa.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 31 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 31 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 24 | See the 24 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.