Mark Takano
- Previous profession
- Public school teacher and community college trustee
- First public office
- 2012Elected to the 41st District for the 113th Congress on November 6, 2012
- Years in public office
- 13
Confirmed from the official recordSource: Congressional Directory for the 119th Congress (2025-2026), February 20, 2026. We saved our copy on October 8, 2026.
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Since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025, Takano has a recorded vote on 60 laws that passed, and 1 vote on a resolution that passed a law.
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The record in plain language
Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 60 came to a recorded vote on passage in the House while Takano is a member. On 1 more, the recorded House vote is on a resolution. Takano votes No on H.Res. 590, the resolution that passed the Rescissions Act of 2025 in the House. The rest passed the House by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.
Takano votes Yes on the HALT Fentanyl Act, the Epstein Files Transparency Act and the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
On funding the government, Takano votes Yes on the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA, and the September 2026 funding extension, and No on the March 2025 full-year funding law, the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown and the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies.
Takano votes No on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.
Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the House in that time. Takano votes to cancel 0 and against cancelling 23, and did not vote on 1.
Takano votes differently from most House Democrats on 2 of 58 Yes and No votes: No on the law that extends again the surveillance authority that lets intelligence agencies collect the communications of foreigners abroad from U.S. providers without individual warrants and No on the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026.
Takano did not vote on the Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act and the law that cancels an IRS rule that would have required decentralized finance platforms to report their customers' digital asset sales the way stockbrokers do.
Votes on laws that passed
Lets the IRS push back tax deadlines for people in areas where a governor has declared a disaster, without waiting for a federal declaration.
Cancels an IRS rule that would have required decentralized finance platforms to report their customers' digital asset sales the way stockbrokers do.
Votes on a resolution that passed a law
Cancels about $9 billion that Congress had already approved: roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion for public broadcasting.
What this member says about laws and orders
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Member-requested spending
Congress printed 14 spending items this member requested, $11,649,000 in all, in the lists read for 4 laws.
Laws read: Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-74, Public Law 119-75, Public Law 119-86.
| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| on STAG--Clean Water Stat Revolving Fund | Public Law 119-74 | e CA Elsinore Valle Water Distric Water/WastewaInfrastructurEnvironmentAgency · al Protecti | None printed | $1,092,000 |
| on STAG--Drinking Water S Revolving Fund | Public Law 119-74 | tate CA Eastern Munici District for Quality ImproEnvironmentAgency · al Protecti | None printed | $1,092,000 |
| on STAG--Drinking Water S Revolving Fund | Public Law 119-74 | tate CA Jurupa Communi District for DevelopmentEnvironmentAgency · al Protecti | None printed | $1,092,000 |
| on STAG--Drinking Water S Revolving Fund | Public Law 119-74 | tate CA Western Munici District for Management SyEnvironmentAgency · al Protecti | None printed | $1,092,000 |
| University of California Riverside | Public Law 119-74 | University of California Riverside Sustainable Immersive Mobility LaboratoryDOC · NIST--STR S | None printed | $1,031,000 |
| City of Riverside | Public Law 119-74 | Riverside Real Time Information CenterDOJ · COPS Tech | None printed | $1,000,000 |
| CA | Public Law 119-75 | Limonite Avenue Roadway ImprovementDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | CA | $850,000 |
| Riverside County Transportation Commission | Public Law 119-75 | Mead Valley Metrolink Station/Mobility Hub ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Transit Infrastructure Grants | CA | $850,000 |
| Riverside Transit Agency | Public Law 119-75 | Veterans Riverside National Cemetery ADA Bus Stop EnhancementDepartment of Transportation · Transit Infrastructure Grants | CA | $250,000 |
| Riverside County Transportation Commission | Public Law 119-75 | Metrolink Double Track ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Transit Infrastructure Grants | CA | $850,000 |
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| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Perris | Public Law 119-75 | Fire Safety ProjectDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | CA | $850,000 |
| City of Riverside | Public Law 119-75 | Northside Agriculture Innovation CenterDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | CA | $250,000 |
| Riverside Community College District | Public Law 119-75 | Riverside Community College District Community SitesDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | CA | $500,000 |
| City of Moreno Valley | Public Law 119-75 | Business and Employment Resource Center ExpansionDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | CA | $850,000 |
Read from the lists Congress printed for 4 laws. An item requested by several members appears under each of them, so sums across members count such an item more than once. A list the Congressional Record printed on two days is counted once, from the later printing. A requester is tied to a member only when exactly one member serving in that chamber on that day has the printed name.
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