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Mike Garcia Republican · CA-27

House of Representatives · former member · serving since 2020 · born April 24, 1976

Transactions 53 across 17 filings
Securities traded 14 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $1,642,053 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 53 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
CA-27 118th 2023–2025 district renumbered from 25
CA-25 116th–117th 2020–2023 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

No current committee assignments on file (former member).

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Appropriations Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2021-03 → 2022-11

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

14 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
TSLA Tesla, Inc. - Common Stock (TSLA) Automotive 20 9 / 11 $686,511 2020-05 → 2023-06
GLD SPDR Gold Trust Capital Markets 2 1 / 1 $65,001 2021-04 → 2023-06
AMC AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Class … 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2022-08 → 2022-08
TXT Textron Inc. Common Stock (TXT) Other 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2022-07 → 2022-07
VXX iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short- Term … 4 3 / 1 $81,002 2020-11 → 2021-07
GME GameStop Corporation Common Stock (GME) 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2021-06 → 2021-06
USO United States Oil Fund (USO) 2 1 / 1 $65,001 2020-05 → 2020-12
AAL American Airlines Group, Inc. - Common … Transportation 2 1 / 1 $65,001 2020-07 → 2020-12
AAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) Technology Hardware 2 1 / 1 $47,502 2020-11 → 2020-12
OIH VanEck Vectors Oil Services ETF (OIH) 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2020-11 → 2020-11
BA Boeing Company (BA) Defense & Aerospace 3 0 / 3 $73,002 2020-06 → 2020-11
FAS Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) 4 2 / 2 $81,002 2020-06 → 2020-11
UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. Common Stock (U… Business Services 2 0 / 2 $40,501 2020-06 → 2020-11
SBUX Starbucks Corporation - Common Stock Retail & Consumer 1 0 / 1 $32,501 2020-06 → 2020-06

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2023 +5.5% 3 $140,002
2022 -21.7% 4 $172,502
2021 -1.7% 5 $145,003
2020 +1.6% 20 $552,511

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2024-07-30 3 Month USG Bond buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2024-03-08 3 Month Bond buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2023-12-04 3 month USG bond buy $250,001 – $500,000 self
2023-08-17 6 Month Bond buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2023-08-17 3 Month T bond buy $100,001 – $250,000 self
2023-06-12 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2023-06-08 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2023-06-08 GLD DR Gold Trust (GLD) sell $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2022-12-20 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-09-29 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) buy $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-08-12 AMC AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Class A (AMC) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2022-07-12 TXT Textron Inc. (TXT) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2022-02-23 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2022-01-25 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) defgc buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-10-25 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) FIlING STATuS: New sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-10-04 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $15,001+ self
2021-07-12 VXX iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short- Term Futures ETN (VXX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-21 GME Gamestop Corporation (GME) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-04-28 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-04-12 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-04-12 GLD DR Gold Trust (GlD) buy $15,001 – $50,000 spouse
2021-04-12 VXX iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short- Term Futures ETN (VXX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-12-11 USO united States Oil Fund (uSO) FIlING STATuS: New sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-12-11 VXX iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short- Term Futures ETN (VXX) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-12-10 AAPL Apple Inc. (AAPl) gfedc sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-12-10 AAL American Airlines Group, Inc. (AAl) efgbcd sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-12-07 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $50,001 – $100,000 self
2020-11-25 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) FIlING STATuS: New sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-24 AAPL Apple Inc. (AAPl) buy $15,001+ self
2020-11-23 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-18 OIH VanEck Vectors Oil Services ETF (OIH) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-11-17 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-16 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-16 VXX iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short- Term Futures ETN (VXX) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-13 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-13 BA Boeing Company (BA) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-09 uBS Group AG Registered sell $15,001+ self
2020-11-09 FAS Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-11-05 UBER uber Technologies, Inc. (uBER) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-10-26 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-10-26 FAS Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-10-26 sell $15,001+ self
2020-09-04 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-07-09 FAS Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-07-09 AAL American Airlines Group, Inc. (AAl) P buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-06-16 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-06-05 BA Boeing Company (BA) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-06-03 UBER uber Technologies, Inc. (uBER) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-06-03 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-06-03 FAS Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-06-03 BA Boeing Company (BA) gfedcb FIlING STATuS: New sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-05-28 USO united States Oil Fund (uSO) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2020-05-21 TSLA Tesla, Inc. (TSlA) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self