Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Alex Padilla

DEMOCRAT U.S. Senator · CaliforniaSenate 2021–now

Alex Padilla is a Democratic U.S. senator from California, in Congress since 2021, who voted with most Democrats on 96% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 6 bills become law since 2021.

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283Bills & resolutions sponsored117th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

14Passed a chamberof 243 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

6Became law4 substantive + 2 ceremonial · 117th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress

38Broke with partyof 882 yes/no votes, 119th (4.3%)

33Missed votesof 915 roll calls, 119th (3.6%)

$145.2MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 192 items; shared items split

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

NayOn the Nomination — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Nomination Confirmed
NayOn the Cloture Motion — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture Motion Agreed to
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Stop Insider Trading Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
YeaOn the Motion to Discharge — A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Sep 29, 2026 · Motion to Discharge Rejected

5 most recent bills

S. 5634 SPELL Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5265)
S. 5352 Desalination Reauthorization Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
S. 5585 BRIDGE Act of 2026
Sep 29, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5172)
S.Res. 919 A resolution honoring the leadership of Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and recognizing his career as a public servant and the…
Sep 29, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text: CR S5174)
S. 5563 Ocean Protection and DDT Reduction Act
Sep 24, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5005-5006)

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Joint Committee on Printing
No subcommittees
Joint Committee on the Library
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Energy, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, Subcommittee on Water and Power
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration — Ranking Member
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on the Budget
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Subcommittee on the Constitution

Elections Sen. Padilla has won

Sen. Padilla has won 2 U.S. Senate elections (2022, 2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 21.8 to 22.1 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won2 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 21.8 points2022, CA Senate

Won an open seat or took one from the other party0 of 2 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, California Senate (class None)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: .

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 done while Sen. Padilla served?

2021 to 2024 in California: typical household income was up 2% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 0.5 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.4 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

California: $98.4K in 2021 → $100.1K in 2024

California up 2%U.S. up 1%

Share of people below the poverty line

California: 12.3% in 2021 → 11.8% in 2024

California down 0.5 pointsU.S. down 0.6 points

Share of workers looking for a job

California: 8.3% in 2021 → 5.9% in 2024

California down 2.4 pointsU.S. down 1.7 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in California during Padilla’s time representing it (2021 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

California’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

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.

Fresno office2500 Tulare Street, Suite 5290, Fresno, CA 93721
Phone 559-497-5109 · Fax 202-228-3864 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
San Francisco office333 Bush Street, Suite 3225, San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone 415-981-9369 · Fax 202-224-0454 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Sacramento office501 I Street, Suite 7-800, Sacramento, CA 95814
Hours: By appointment only
Phone 916-448-2787 · Fax 202-228-3865 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
San Diego office600 B Street, Suite 2240, San Diego, CA 92101
Phone 619-239-3884 · Fax 202-228-3863 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Los Angeles office255 E. Temple St., Suite 1860, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone 310-231-4494 · Fax 202-224-0357 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries P000145-fresno, P000145-san_francisco, P000145-sacramento, P000145-san_diego, P000145-los_angeles (5 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, www.padilla.senate.gov.

Federal figures for California

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s state. The full table, sources and notes are on the state page.

6,813,640people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'CA - OASDI', row 5
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

1,106,560people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'CA - SSI', row 6
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$14,889,943,492VA direct expenditures in the state, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, State Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 8, FIPS 06
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the California page, with notes →

Read this first. These describe the state, not the member. They say nothing about what this member did or did not do, and they are never used to rate or rank members.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 114 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	114	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	7	See the 7 →
With a committee report listed	5	See the 5 →
With a Congress.gov note	1	See the 1 →

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 25, 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.

Votes on civilian nominations

237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.

Yea 7 (3%)Nay 221 (93%)Not voting 9 (4%)

Nay · September 30, 2026 · Keith Sonderling Secretary of Labor
Nay · September 23, 2026 · Angela Veronica Colmenero United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
Nay · September 17, 2026 · Kasdin Miller Mitchell United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Nay · September 15, 2026 · Matthew R. Byrne United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
Nay · August 8, 2026 · Todd Blanche Attorney General
Nay · August 7, 2026 · Michael Kavoukjian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
Nay · August 5, 2026 · Erica Schwartz Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nay · July 28, 2026 · Walter Clayton Director of National Intelligence

Source: Senate roll call votes, as stored by PORKER ↗

Evidence

What is counted: Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
How it is matched: The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
Not voting: Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.

589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.

All confirmed nominations Nominations hub

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.