Promise Tracker › Raul Ruiz
U.S. Representative, California 25th district · Democrat
Raul Ruiz
18 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.
676 recorded votes
- Voted for29844.1%
- Voted against36754.3%
- Did not vote81.2%
Turned up for 98.4% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.
Ruiz voted 98 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the House, which is 98.
They vote the same way as Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.
Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 72 times out of 100.
The Record prints their remarks under one heading more than once. The list below names them.
- First took office
- January 3, 2013
- Terms served
- 7 terms in the House
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
- Born
- August 25, 1972
Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.
What They Spoke On
Only one heading repeats in what Ruiz has on the record here, a resolution supporting rural communities. Everything else appears once, taking in the killing of a constituent and a food bank leader in California.
The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.
- Expressing Support for Rural Communities Across the…2
What Was Said, and What Was Done
18 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Raul Ruiz’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.
- 2026-07-23HONORING DEBBIE ESPINOSA“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Debbie Espinosa, president and CEO of FIND Food Bank, and her 8 years of extraordinary leadership. Debbie and I have stood together through disaster response, through the darkest days of the pandemic, and in the fight to protect the Federal nutrition programs that many children and farmworker families depend on.”
- 2026-06-11ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IS NOT FOR SALE“Mr. Speaker, I rise today with an important message for the Trump administration: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not for sale. For the third time, they have tried to sell off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil, and for the third time, it has flopped.”
- 2026-05-13RECOGNIZING NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND HONORING OUR FIRST RESPONDERS“Mr. Speaker, I rise during National Police Week to honor the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to keep our community safe.”
- 2026-04-22EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AS STEWARDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, MAJOR SUPPLI“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to represent and speak up for the people in California's 25th Congressional District, home to farmworkers, laborers, and families in the Coachella, Imperial, and San Jacinto Valleys who wake up each morning breathing some of the most polluted air in the United States.”
What Their Votes Add Up To
Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.
- Voted for
- Voted against
Voting With Their Party
On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Raul Ruiz voted on 466 and was with the Democrat majority on 452 of them.
466 party line votes cast
- With their party45297.0%
- Against their party143.0%
Votes Against Their Own Party
- 22-Jul-2026H R 8800Voted Aye · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 15-Jul-2026H R 8595Voted No · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 14-May-2026H R 5625Voted Yea · On Passage
- 13-May-2026H R 1346Voted Yea · On Passage
- 30-Apr-2026H R 7567Voted Aye · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 30-Apr-2026H R 7567Voted Aye · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 27-Mar-2026H R 7084Voted Yea · On Passage
- 21-Nov-2025H CON RES 58Voted Yea · On Agreeing to the Resolution
- 21-Jul-2025H R 3095Voted Yea · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
- 17-Jul-2025S 1582Voted Yea · On Passage
- 17-Jul-2025H R 3633Voted Yea · On Passage
- 9-Jun-2025H RES 488Voted Yea · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree
- 11-Mar-2025H J RES 25Voted Yea · On Passage
- 23-Jan-2025H R 471Voted Yea · On Passage
Who They Vote With
In Their Own Party
Of the votes both took part in.
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormickDemocrat · FL · agreed on 98.7% of 464 shared votes
- Frederica S. WilsonDemocrat · FL · agreed on 98.3% of 474 shared votes
- Ted LieuDemocrat · CA · agreed on 98.2% of 651 shared votes
- Pete AguilarDemocrat · CA · agreed on 98.0% of 660 shared votes
- Joyce BeattyDemocrat · OH · agreed on 97.9% of 626 shared votes
Voting Across the Aisle
- James C. MoylanRepublican · GU · agreed on 71.6% of 74 shared votes
- Kimberlyn King-HindsRepublican · MP · agreed on 63.6% of 66 shared votes
- Brian K. FitzpatrickRepublican · PA · agreed on 46.5% of 660 shared votes
- James GallagherRepublican · CA · agreed on 41.3% of 92 shared votes
- Michael LawlerRepublican · NY · agreed on 38.3% of 653 shared votes
Where the Words Are
The Congressional Record marks Raul Ruiz as speaking in 22 items of business across 20 sitting days of this Congress.
Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.
- July 23, 2026HONORING DEBBIE ESPINOSA; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 121
- June 11, 2026ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IS NOT FOR SALE; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 99
- May 13, 2026RECOGNIZING NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND HONORING OUR FIRST RESPONDERS; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 81
- April 22, 2026EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AS STEWARDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, MAJOR SUPPLI
- February 4, 2026HORRIFIC ICE ABUSES; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 25
- December 17, 2025LOWER HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS FOR ALL AMERICANS ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 171, No. 213
- December 17, 2025PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 6703, LOWER HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS FOR ALL AMERICANS ACT; PROVIDING FOR CONS
- November 20, 2025UNLOCKING OUR DOMESTIC LNG POTENTIAL ACT OF 2025; Congressional Record Vol. 171, No. 196
The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.
Every Recorded Vote
All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Raul Ruiz. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.
- 16-Sep-2026S 2403Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
- 16-Sep-2026H R 9497Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
- 16-Sep-2026H R 9340Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
- 16-Sep-2026H J RES 213Voted against (Nay) · On Passage
Elsewhere in the Record
- Everyone who represents California Both chambers, with a link to each member's page.
- Find your representatives Every member of the 119th Congress, by state.
The other California representatives in this Congress: Salud O. Carbajal and Julia Brownley.
How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.