Sara Jacobs

U.S. Representative, CA-51

Democratic California since Jan 3, 2025

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Defense & Military 2 Foreign Policy & Trade 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Representative, CA-51 current California	Democratic	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, CA-51 California	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2025	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District CA-51 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2025	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, CA-53 California	Democratic	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District CA-53 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Africa — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Armed Services unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Armed Services — Intelligence and Special Operations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Armed Services — Military Personnel unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Foreign Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Western Hemisphere unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.417, social dim. -0.424. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (583 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
HR 3668 — Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act	Nay	Dec 12, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3668 — Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act	Yea	Dec 12, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2550 — Protect America's Workforce Act	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 432 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2550) to nullify the Executive order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management…	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3898 — PERMIT Act	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3898 — PERMIT Act	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3638 — Electric Supply Chain Act	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3628 — State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 939 — Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors.	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 432 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2550) to nullify the Executive order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management…	Yea	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Yea	Dec 10, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 936 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3898) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make targeted reforms with respect…	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 936 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3898) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make targeted reforms with respect…	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1676 — Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 9, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 356 — Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 9, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1049 — Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act	Nay	Dec 4, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1069 — PROTECT Our Kids Act	Nay	Dec 4, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1005 — Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act	Nay	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 4305 — DUMP Red Tape Act	Nay	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2965 — Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025	Nay	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,018 recorded contributions totalling $2,059,716. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 183 of 1018 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	106	$1,063,401	52%
Corporate PAC	26	$261,800	13%
Small-dollar	33	$4,180	0%
Super PAC	18	$341	0%
Unclassified	835	$729,995	35%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$250,000	JACOBS, SARA	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Big donor	Mar 29, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$250,000	JACOBS, SARA	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Big donor	Mar 21, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$150,000	JACOBS, SARA	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Big donor	Dec 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$100,000	JACOBS, SARA	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Big donor	Dec 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$50,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Jun 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$25,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Sep 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$25,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Mar 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,800	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Mar 5, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$16,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Jun 27, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$15,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Feb 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$13,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Mar 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$8,000	SARA JACOBS HOUSE VICTORY FUND	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Sep 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	ACTBLUE	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	unclassified	Jun 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	ACTBLUE	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	unclassified	Dec 24, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	ACTBLUE	SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS	unclassified	Feb 14, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.