U.S. House · California's 6th District

• NoWar Powers Resolution directing removal of forces from Iran hostilities · H. Con. Res. 86 · Passed 215–208 · 2026-06-03 roll call ↗The resolution directs the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran that Congress has not authorized, invoking the War Powers Resolution. It passed the House with support from Democrats and a number of Republicans.
• YesResolution disapproving tariffs on Canada · H.J. Res. 72 · Passed 219–211 · 2026-02-11 roll call ↗The resolution terminates the national emergency the President declared in February 2025 to justify a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada, ending that tariff if it becomes law. It passed with a bipartisan majority, including several Republicans who broke with the administration on trade policy.
• YesConsolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 — full-year government funding · H.R. 7148 · Passed 217–214 · 2026-02-03 roll call ↗The bill provides full-year discretionary appropriations for federal agencies for the remainder of fiscal year 2026, replacing the stopgap funding enacted after the fall 2025 shutdown. It sets spending levels across defense and non-defense programs through September 2026.
• NoBreaking the Gridlock Act — ACA subsidy extension · H.R. 1834 · Passed 230–196 · 2026-01-08 roll call ↗The bill extends for additional years the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that were expanded in 2021 and had lapsed at the end of 2025, lowering health-insurance premiums for people who buy coverage on ACA marketplaces. It passed with support from nearly all Democrats and a small group of Republicans.
• NoWar Powers Resolution on Venezuela · H. Con. Res. 64 · Failed 211–213 · 2025-12-17 roll call ↗The resolution would have directed the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities in or against Venezuela that Congress had not authorized. It failed after U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-trafficking vessels off Venezuela had raised questions in Congress about the administration's legal authority for military action in the region.
• YesNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 — final passage · S. 1071 · Passed 312–112 · 2025-12-10 roll call ↗The fiscal year 2026 NDAA authorizes roughly $900 billion in defense spending, including a pay raise for service members and funding for shipbuilding, munitions, and missile-defense programs. It also sets policy on military personnel, procurement, and other Defense Department programs for the year.
• YesEpstein Files Transparency Act · H.R. 4405 · Passed 427–1 · 2025-11-18 roll call ↗The bill directs the Department of Justice to publicly release its investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, while allowing redactions to protect victim identities, ongoing investigations, and law enforcement techniques. It passed with near-unanimous support.
• YesContinuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 — shutdown-ending vote · H.R. 5371 · Passed 222–209 · 2025-11-12 roll call ↗The bill reopened the federal government after a 43-day shutdown by funding most agencies through January 30, 2026, and providing full-year funding for a smaller group of agencies through September 2026. It also reversed shutdown-related federal layoffs and funded SNAP benefits retroactively.
• YesCLARITY Act — digital asset market structure · H.R. 3633 · Passed 294–134 · 2025-07-17 roll call ↗The CLARITY Act creates a regulatory framework dividing oversight of digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It sets registration and disclosure requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and other digital-asset intermediaries.
• YesGENIUS Act — stablecoin regulation · S. 1582 · Passed 308–122 · 2025-07-17 roll call ↗The GENIUS Act creates a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, requiring issuers to hold reserves backing their tokens on a one-to-one basis and to comply with new disclosure and licensing rules. It was the first major piece of cryptocurrency legislation enacted into federal law.
• YesOne Big Beautiful Bill Act — final passage · H.R. 1 · Passed 218–214 · 2025-07-03 roll call ↗H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, extends and expands the 2017 tax cuts, adds new deductions for tips, overtime pay, and seniors, and raises the cap on state and local tax deductions. It increases border security and defense spending while cutting projected Medicaid and SNAP spending and adding new work requirements; President Trump signed it into law on July 4, 2025.
• YesRescissions Act of 2025 · H.R. 4 · Passed 214–212 · 2025-06-12 roll call ↗The Rescissions Act canceled about $9 billion in previously approved federal spending, mostly for foreign aid programs and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It was the first rescissions package Congress had approved in decades.
• YesOne Big Beautiful Bill Act — House passage · H.R. 1 · Passed 215–214 · 2025-05-22 roll call ↗H.R. 1 extends and modifies the 2017 individual and business tax cuts, creates new deductions for tips and overtime pay, and increases spending on border security and defense. It also reduces projected spending on Medicaid and food-assistance programs and adds new work requirements for some recipients.
• YesSAVE Act — proof-of-citizenship voter registration · H.R. 22 · Passed 220–208 · 2025-04-10 roll call ↗The SAVE Act would require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections. It also directs states to establish procedures to remove noncitizens identified on voter rolls.
• YesFull-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 · H.R. 1968 · Passed 217–213 · 2025-03-11 roll call ↗The bill funded the federal government through the remainder of fiscal year 2025, largely at prior-year spending levels, averting a shutdown ahead of a March 14 deadline. It also extended several expiring health and other program authorizations.
• YesLaken Riley Act — final passage · S. 5 · Passed 263–156 · 2025-01-22 roll call ↗The Laken Riley Act requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants who are arrested, charged, or convicted for theft, burglary, or certain violent crimes. It also allows state attorneys general to sue the federal government over certain immigration enforcement decisions.
• YesSecure the Border Act of 2023 — House passage · H.R. 2 · Passed 219–213 · 2023-05-11 roll call ↗Would have resumed border-wall construction, restricted asylum eligibility, expanded detention, and mandated E-Verify for employers.

• actionServed on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chairing its Workforce Protections Subcommittee, during the 2023-2024 session.[2]
• actionServed on the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure during the 2023-2024 session.[2]

• ✓SupportsPublic funding for school choice (vouchers / charters)

  Supports the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, a tax-credit scholarship program that lets taxpayers claim a credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations that fund families' private-school and other education expenses, and has publicly pressed California to opt in.[5]

  “Last year, I fought for $5 billion in education dollars for low and middle-income families to access services like special education, tuition, and tutoring. It is unfortunate that Governor Newsom is refusing to let California families access funds that will be available to other students across the country.”

• ✓SupportsExpand immigration enforcement and deportationsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on Laken Riley Act (S. 5, 2025-01-22). Voted yes on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which funded expanded immigration enforcement, detention and border operations. Voted yes on Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R. 2, 2023-05-11).[9][10][11][12][13]

• ✕OpposesExpand public health coverageFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which reduced federal Medicaid spending and added Medicaid work requirements. Voted no on Breaking the Gridlock Act (H.R. 1834, 2026-01-08).[10][11][12][14]

• ✕OpposesFaster transition away from fossil fuelsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which phased out Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy tax credits.[10][11][12]

• ✕OpposesRaise taxes on high earners or corporationsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, 2025-05-22; 2025-07-03), which made the 2017 individual tax rates, including the 37% top rate, permanent.[10][11][12]

• ✕OpposesBroad tariffs on imported goodsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on Resolution disapproving tariffs on Canada (H.J. Res. 72, 2026-02-11).[15]

• Chairs the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and says he fought for $5 billion in education dollars for low- and middle-income families to access services like special education, tuition and tutoring.[5]
• Says protecting access to Head Start early-childhood education, health, nutrition and family-support services is important, citing his role as chairman of the education subcommittee that oversees the program.[6]

• Earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 2007, a master's in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University in 2009, and a law degree from Yale Law School in 2012.[2]
• Worked as a teacher, lawyer, deputy attorney general, and adjunct professor before elected office.[2]
• Has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey.[2]

Raised $3.0M · spent $1.2M · $2.1M cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

• actionChaired the California Senate Health Committee during the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 sessions.[4]
• billAs a state senator, authored California's law tightening childhood vaccination exemption requirements, according to his campaign.[3]
• vote2019-09-10 · Voted yes on AB 1482 (the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, capping annual rent increases statewide), which passed the California Senate 25-10 on 2019-09-10.[7]
• vote2017-06-01 · Voted yes on SB 35 (streamlining local approval of affordable housing developments that meet zoning and labor standards), which passed the California Senate 25-12 on 2017-06-01.[8]

• ✓SupportsExpand public health coverage

  Campaign frames his candidacy around defending public health policy and science-based healthcare against administration rollbacks.[3]

• ✓SupportsStronger rent regulation and tenant protectionsFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on AB 1482 (the Tenant Protection Act, capping annual rent increases statewide), which passed the California Senate 25-10 on 2019-09-10.[7]

• ✓SupportsLoosen zoning rules to build more housingFrom recorded votes

  Voted yes on SB 35 (streamlining local approval of affordable housing developments that meet zoning and labor standards), which passed the California Senate 25-12 on 2017-06-01.[8]

• Campaign describes him as a public health advocate running to oppose Trump administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. policies on healthcare and science.[3]

• Earned a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in public health from Harvard University, and an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.[4]
• Worked as a physician at UC Davis Children's Hospital and as an associate professor of pediatrics at UC Davis.[4]
• Served in the California State Senate representing District 6 from 2014 to 2022, including as Chair of the Senate Health Committee, after earlier service in the State Assembly.[4]

Raised $1.1M · spent $739K · $359K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗