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The FY2026 NDAA authorizes $38 billion for aircraft including the MQ-9 produced by San Diego-based defense contractors, which Peters explicitly cited as a reason for his support.

Peters successfully secured the integration of the Smart Ship Repair Act (SSRA) into the final FY2025 and FY2026 NDAA texts after it was omitted from the 2023 House-passed bill.

As of his 2024 filings, Peters maintains a personal net worth estimated between $42 million and $78 million, with significant exposure to broad-market and pooled funds that track the pharmaceutical…

Peters' $1.58 million in pharma/health product career donations accumulated over multiple election cycles beginning in 2012, reflecting a long-term alignment with the sector rather than a single…

The two other Democrats who joined Peters in killing the drug pricing provision were Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR-05) and Rep. Kathleen Rice (NY-04). Schrader, who shared Peters' donor profile, was later…

The CA-50 district includes the San Diego life sciences cluster anchored by UC San Diego, the Scripps Research Institute, and the Salk Institute—major biomedical research institutions employing…

California's 50th District has a 21.5% foreign-born population, making immigration-related administrative changes a high-impact constituent issue for the Peters office.

Representative Scott Peters officially voted Nay on the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 7511) on March 7, 2024, joining 170 Democrats in opposition.