Republican · House · CA
Jay Obernolte
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide O000019.
Jay Obernolte is the Republican representative for the House from CA, district 23 in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is 0.318, drawn as economics +32. That is right of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.300, drawn as authority +30. The other axis sits toward authority. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the House, this first-dimension score ranks 237 of 433 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Republican median in this chamber (0.53). The nearest other House scores are Jeff Hurd (Republican, 0.317), Michael K. Simpson (Republican, 0.296), Ken Calvert (Republican, 0.340). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://obernolte.house.gov), under “Budget,” says: “America’s skyrocketing national debt is one of the largest current threats to our nation’s economy. As a small business owner, I understand…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Jay Obernolte would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide O000019.