Juan Vargas, Representative for California's 52nd Congressional District - GovTrack.us
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Rep. Juan Vargas

Representative for California’s 52nd District

pronounced wahn // VAHR-guss

Vargas is the representative for California’s 52nd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Vargas is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 63 years old.

He was previously the representative for California’s 51st congressional district as a Democrat from 2013 to 2022.

Photo of Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA52]

Earmarks

Vargas proposed $38 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) for “Clean Transit Advancement Campus (CTAC)”
  • $5 million to University of California, San Diego for “Wildfire Technology Commons”
  • $4 million to City of San Diego for “Marie Widman Memorial Park Improvements”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Vargas is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Vargas has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 31, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Juan Vargas sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Vargas was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Vargas sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (22%) Government Operations and Politics (19%) Environmental Protection (12%) Housing and Community Development (12%) Health (12%) Immigration (9%) Native Americans (6%) International Affairs (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Vargas recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Vargas voted Nay

Vargas voted No

Passed 314/117 on May 31, 2023.
This bill would enact a compromise reached by House Republicans and President Biden to avert an impending fiscal crisis related to the statutory debt limit. …

Vargas voted Yea

Vargas voted Nay

Passed 327/85 on Dec 21, 2020.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a major government funding bill, which also included economic stimulus provisions due …

Vargas voted No

Passed 360/61 on Dec 8, 2016.
The WIIN (Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation) Act was a 277-page bill dealing with federal water policies, particularly for drought-stricken areas. It’s so complex …

Vargas voted Yea

Vargas voted Yea

Vargas voted Yea

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.
The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Vargas voted Aye

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to May 2024, Vargas missed 145 of 6,647 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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