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Jay Obernolte

Jay Obernolte

U.S. Representative for California's 23rd districtR-CA-23

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645

recorded votes

4

bills sponsored

30

cosponsored

0%

votes missed

2021

first took office

The numbers

based on decisive floor votes
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Agrees with you

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95%

Kept their word

20 kept · 1 broken

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Sides with constituents

not enough local votes yet

96%

Votes with party

638 roll calls

“Agrees with you” compares your recorded position on a bill against this member's vote on the bill's decisive roll call — passage or an equivalent up-or-down vote, not procedural motions. Abstentions are excluded rather than counted as disagreement.

Who funds them

FEC filings, 2024 + 2026 cycles

$1.8M

from PACs

1,067

contributions

$14k

routed through organizations

$15k

moved between their own committees

$262k

spent supporting them

$41k

spent against them

Individual money routed through organizations

not the organization's own money

This is individuals' money, not the organization's. Supporters write checks earmarked for a named candidate, the organization collects them and passes them on — so it isn't bound by the PAC limits above, and it doesn't come out of the organization's own funds. It is still worth knowing: somebody chose this candidate and did the gathering.

A PAC can give a candidate up to $10,000 per election cycle — $5,000 for the primary and $5,000 for the general — so totals spanning two cycles run to about $20,000 at the top end. Occasional larger figures usually mean a special election or a runoff, which counts as another election.

Money moved between committees the candidate controls — a House campaign fund transferred to a Senate run, for instance. It isn't a donation from anyone and isn't counted as one.

The PAC figures above are the organizations' own contributions only. Earmarked money they merely carried is listed separately, and independent expenditures separately again — they aren't gifts to the campaign, and money spent against a member would otherwise appear as backing. Source: FEC bulk filings ↗

Individuals vs PACs

FEC filings, 2026 cycle
From individuals$561k · 23%
From PACs$1.8M · 77%

51%

from outside California

0%

in gifts under $200

92

maximum contributions

$558k

itemised, from 334 gifts

That's state, not district. ZIP codes straddle congressional districts, so placing a donation inside one would be a guess — and this site doesn't guess. For a House member, treat the out-of-state figure as a floor: some of the in-state money came from outside the district too.

Where their donors work

  • Anthropic10 donors$28k
  • Lighthouse6 donors$21k
  • Andreessen Horowitz6 donors$14k
  • Esri4 donors$14k
  • Mehlman Consulting11 donors$12k
  • Innovative Federal Strategies7 donors$12k
  • Anthropic Pbc5 donors$7,787
  • Alimeter Capitol2 donors$7,000
  • Carte Verte Management LLC2 donors$7,000
  • C6 Strategies LLC3 donors$7,000

Grouped from what donors wrote in the employer box on their own filing. It's free text, so “retired”, “self” and “homemaker” are dropped rather than dressed up as employers — and one employer can appear twice under two spellings, because merging them would mean guessing which spellings mean the same thing. A company listed here has given nothing itself; its employees have, as individuals.

Maximum donors

People who gave at least one full election maximum — 92 such contributions in total. The largest 25 are listed.

  • SALTON, SCOTT MR.OR$7,000
  • YUHAAVIATAM OF SAN MANUEL NATIONCA$7,000
  • KIM, TAE-YUN DR.OR$7,000
  • FAISON, JAY WNC$7,000
  • NEWMAN, PAUL MR.CA$7,000
  • HOGAN, NOREEN CTX$7,000
  • VALENTINE, MICHELLECA$7,000
  • JONES, ANDREWDC$7,000
  • EMMERSON, MARK D. MR.CA$7,000
  • DENISON, CARSONCA$7,000
  • JOHNSTON, SCOTTCA$7,000
  • WHITE, LETITIADC$7,000
  • KARP, ALEXANDER CDC$7,000
  • DANGERMOND, LAURACA$7,000
  • DANGERMOND, JACKCA$7,000
  • RADEMAKER, MICHAELCA$7,000
  • WEITZ, STEFANTX$7,000
  • HOGAN, JOANTX$7,000
  • HOGAN, FRANKTX$7,000
  • GERSTNER, BRADEYCA$7,000
  • JANG, STEVECA$7,000
  • DAYTON, SKYOR$7,000
  • VON, SYDNEYOR$7,000
  • BRICKEN, TRENTONCA$7,000
  • O'MALEY, DAVIDOH$3,500

Name and state only — no address, no employer, and no way to search for a person on this site. These are public FEC filings, but someone who gave $3,500 is a private citizen, not a public official, and the point of listing them is to show who funds a politician rather than to build a directory of donors.

Individual giving is aggregated by the FEC and read from its API — including the $2,732 given in amounts under $200, which never appears in the bulk download because donors under that threshold aren't named. Source: FEC ↗

When a donor said what it wanted

24 bills
92%

Voted with donors

22 of 24

Across 24 bills where an organization that gave Obernolte money publicly stated what it wanted, and Obernolte cast a recorded vote. Those organizations gave $120k in total.

Read this carefully: it counts only bills where the organization itself stated a position, in its own lobbying filing or a public statement, and where the member cast a recorded vote. VoteWire never guesses what a donor wanted. And alignment is not influence — PACs overwhelmingly give to members who already vote their way, so a high number more often reflects who chose whom than who bought whom. The full method.

Did they keep their word?

stated position vs. recorded vote

Fair warning on reading this section: a bill can change a great deal between the day a member adds their name to it and the day it reaches the floor. Voting against a bill you cosponsored is sometimes a reversal and sometimes a reasonable response to an amendment — which is why every row links to the official record instead of just handing you a verdict.

Recent votes on bills

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BillDateThey votedYou
H.Con.Res. 89 Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jul 23, 2026Nayweigh in
H.R. 8884 Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act

On Passage

Jul 23, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 7008 Stop Insider Trading Act

On Passage

Jul 22, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 8800 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

On Passage

Jul 22, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.Con.Res. 113 Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036.

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jul 22, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.Res. 1438 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8884) to amend title II of t

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jul 21, 2026Ayeweigh in
H.R. 6955 Main Street Act

On Passage

Jul 21, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 9770 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027

On Passage

Jul 21, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 1118 Value Over Cost Act of 2026

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jul 21, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 8823 Putting Patients First by Strengthening Provider Accountability in FECA Act

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jul 20, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 4541 To reauthorize the Young Women’s Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009.

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jul 20, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 9237 Take Care of America’s Veterans Act

On Motion to Recommit

Jul 16, 2026Nayweigh in
H.R. 5362 To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Jul 16, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 8595 Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act

On Passage

Jul 15, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.Res. 1423 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 139) to make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8595) making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9237) to amend titles 10 and

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jul 14, 2026Ayeweigh in
H.R. 139 Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

On Passage

Jul 14, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 1181 Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act

On Passage

Jul 14, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 3106 Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Jul 13, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 8897 Improving Travel for American Families Act

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jul 13, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.Res. 1398 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8595) making appropriations

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jun 30, 2026Ayeweigh in
H.Res. 1399 Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records relating to .monetary settlements involving acts of sexual harassment.

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jun 30, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.Con.Res. 108 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities in Lebanon.

On Agreeing to the Resolution

Jun 30, 2026Nayweigh in
H.R. 7757 SCREEN Act

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jun 29, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 7128 TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jun 29, 2026Yeaweigh in
H.R. 2478 Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Jun 25, 2026Yeaweigh in

Bills they sponsored