LegiStorm

Summary

Biographical

Family:

Education

• California State University, Bakersfield School of Business and Public Administration - MBA (1994)

• California State University, Bakersfield - BS, marketing (1989)

• Bakersfield (Calif.) College (1984-1985)

• Bakersfield (Calif.) High School - Diploma (1983)

Office History

Election Results

• 2021 (Nov. 3, 2020 election)

  23rd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 62.14%

  Republican
  Kim Mangone, 37.86%

  Democrat

• 2019 (Nov. 6, 2018 election)

  23rd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 63.72%

  Republican
  Tatiana Matta, 36.28%

  Democrat

• 2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

  23rd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 69.18%

  Republican
  Wendy Reed, 30.82%

  Democrat

• 2015 (Nov. 4, 2014 election)

  23rd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 74.84%

  Republican
  Raul Garcia, 25.16%

  Democrat

• 2013 (Nov. 6, 2012 election)

  23rd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 73.22%

  Republican
  Terry Phillips, 26.78%

  Non-designated

• 2011 (Nov. 2, 2010 election)

  22nd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 98.76%

  Republican

• 2009 (Nov. 4, 2008 election)

  22nd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 100.00%

  Republican

• 2007 (Nov. 7, 2006 election)

  22nd Congressional District of California
  Kevin Owen McCarthy, 70.70%

  Republican
  Sharon M Beery, 29.30%

  Democrat

Employment History

• Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA) (1993-Dec. 2002)

  Field Representative, then District Director

Associated Organizations

• U.S. Naval Academy

  Board Chair

• University of Maryland Medical Center (Baltimore, Md.)

  Board Member, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.)

  Ex Officio Member, Board of Trustees

• Kevin McCarthy for Congress (California)

Awards

• Hero of Main Street (National Retail Federation) (July 2022)

• Guardian of Small Business (National Federation of Independent Business Inc.) (2020)

• Policymaker of the Year (Recording Industry Association of America) (Sept. 2019)

• True Blue Award (Family Research Council Action) (April 2019)

• Distinguished Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2019)

• Guardian of Small Business (National Federation of Independent Business Inc.) (Nov. 2018)

• Conservative Achievement Award (American Conservative Union) (April 2018)

• Thomas Jefferson Award (International Foodservice Distributors Association) (April 2018)

• Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2018)

• Spirit of Enterprise Award (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (March 2017)

• Distinguished Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2017)

• Manufacturing Legislative Excellence Award (National Association of Manufacturers) (Oct. 2016)

• Defender of Housing (National Association of Home Builders) (Sept. 2016)

• Hero of Main Street (National Retail Federation) (July 2015)

Publications

• Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders (2010)

  Co-authors: Cantor, Eric Ivan; Ryan, Paul Davis Jr.
  

Official Signature

Privately Financed Travel

8 trips taken between 2007 - 2022 costing $143,806

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Congressional Staff

Caught Our Eye

• Rep. Gaetz, crusader against reckless spending, led the House in 2023 office expenses

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 11, 2024
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who cited the federal government's "reckless spending" as a justification for bringing a motion to vacate against then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), led the House in 2023 office spending - thanks, in part, to new reimbursement rules that allowed the congressman to receive more than $40,000 for housing and meals. read more

• Ways and Means aide moves to big-lobbying trade group

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 15, 2022
  A Ways and Means subcommittee staffer has left for one of Washington's biggest lobbying presences, the American Hospital Association. read more

• Privately sponsored congressional travel is making its comeback

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 23, 2022
  Interest groups are making up for lost time, spending on private congressional travel at the highest election-year rate since 2014. read more

• Chief to ex-Rep. Sean Duffy heads to pot group

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 17, 2019
  The chief of staff to Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), who resigned from the House in September, has moved to a company producing marijuana. read more

• One in seven representatives spent recess in Israel

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 9, 2019
  One out of seven representatives spent part of the August recess traveling to Israel, thanks to a private sponsor that dropped more than $1.45 million on the trip. read more

• One in nine House reps went to Israel last month

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 13, 2017
  If Democrats and Republicans in Congress agreed on one thing this August, it was the importance of traveling to Israel. They just couldn't agree to travel together. read more

• Congress reacts to McCarthy's decision on Twitter, unites behind cynicism

  Posted by Steve Shapiro on Oct. 9, 2015
  Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) decision to drop out of the speakership race moments before the GOP vote shocked political observers and Congress alike. Twitter did not take kindly. read more

• Boehner's replacement will have weaker staff ties to K Street

  Posted by Steve Shapiro on Oct. 6, 2015
  The three candidates vying to be House speaker have considerably fewer staff ties with K Street than the man one of them will replace.  read more

• Scalise skipped Selma for conference at a lavish resort

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on March 19, 2015
  As lawmakers from both parties crossed a bridge in Selma, Alabama, on a historic anniversary for civil rights, one Republican House leader under fire from civil rights leaders was instead staying with his wife at a posh resort in Georgia, new records show. read more

• Capitol Hill loses another staffer to Uber

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Oct. 30, 2014
  As Uber Technologies Inc. surges into cities across the globe - sometimes igniting protests from taxi drivers - the app-based ridesharing service continues to poach from Capitol Hill and other high-powered political positions. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on June 22, 2012
  A major player in the natural gas industry that actively lobbies recently sponsored a congressional trip to its drilling sites in Pennsylvania, calling attention to the extent which companies that lobby can still fund travel. read more

• Posted by LegiStorm on Nov. 3, 2011
  GOP communications guru Sarah Pompei's previous stint as spokeswoman for Meg Whitman's campaign for California governor has haunted her Google profile with a torrent of words over a single-character error in a tweet. During the campaign, she used the URL-shortening service bit.ly to send out a link via Twitter but a single typo caused her to link to a Korean cross-dressing musician in error. read more

• Posted by Daimon Eklund on Oct. 3, 2011
  Tim Berry, the chief of staff to House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), earned more than half a million dollars for his lobbying work on behalf of Time Warner in 2010, including a bonus of $205,000 that appears to have been paid in the days before he started work on Capitol Hill. read more

• Israel jaunts set record for most costly trips

  Posted by Daimon Eklund on Sept. 12, 2011
  The American Israel Education Foundation has spent a record amount to send members of Congress and their staff to Israel in 2011, even before all the numbers are in. read more