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.
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· 2025-12-10
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.
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· 2024-12-12
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 industry.
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· 2018
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 transactional event.
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· 2026-05-04
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 defeated in his 2022 primary by a progressive challenger who made the drug pricing vote a central campaign issue.
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· 2021-09-15
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 thousands of constituents who would be affected by drug pricing policies that reduce pharmaceutical R&D investment.
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· 2021
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.
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· 2024-05-04
Representative Scott Peters officially voted Nay on the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 7511) on March 7, 2024, joining 170 Democrats in opposition.
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· 2024-03-07
The FY2025 NDAA included Peters' 'Smart Ship Repair Act,' which mandates the Navy to keep ships needing maintenance cycles of up to 18 months in their homeports, benefiting San Diego's $3.7 billion maritime economy.
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· 2024-12-12
Scott Peters voted Yea on the final bipartisan FY2025 NDAA on December 12, 2024, securing a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted personnel and protecting San Diego's ship repair workforce.
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· 2024-12-12
In April 2026, Peters introduced the CERTAIN Act (H.R. 8308), a bipartisan initiative aimed at streamlining federal permitting and environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects.
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· 2026-04-15
Representative Scott Peters officially voted Nay on the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) and Yea on the GENIUS Act (S. 1582) on July 17, 2025, demonstrating a bifurcated approach to digital asset regulation.
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· 2025-07-17
Representative Peters officially voted Nay on the SAVE Act (H.R. 8281) in July 2024, citing concerns over potential administrative hurdles for naturalized citizens in his district.
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· 2024-07-10
Scott Peters secured a $1,031,000 federal appropriation in March 2026 to fund a state-of-the-art CyberLab Incubator at San Diego City College for cyber defense training.
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· 2026-03-10
[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Partisan lean (Cook PVI-style): D+29 (Solid Democratic)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Largest ethnic groups: White Non-Hispanic 53.6%, Hispanic 22.3%, Asian 14.4%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate: 5.2% (national average 12.4%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: 48.7% (national average 65.5%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's degree or higher: 60.3% of adults (national average 33.7%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Population foreign-born: 21.5% (162,000 residents)
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Last contradiction analysis: Never
Platform: "Peters stated he supports lowering prescription drug costs, saying in an op-ed that Americans 'shouldn't have to choose between paying for medicine an"
Vote: on "Peters, along with two other Democrats, voted against the drug pricing reform provision in the Energ"
Peters publicly positioned himself as favoring lower prescription drug costs for consumers, yet he cast the decisive vote to kill Medicare drug-price negotiation authority in committee — a transformative pricing reform. His top career donor sector is
Platform: ""I have received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund because I have voted in favor of reproductive rights 100% of the time." — Peters ca"
Vote: on "Peters voted against the Build Back Better Act in committee (September 2021), blocking the $3.5 tril"
Peters' campaign characterized him as a leader among progressive Democrats, but his voting record shows he consistently ranks among the House Democrats most likely to vote against his party, with a 46.15 ProgressivePunch score (worst among California
Last silence detection: Never (via )
Refused to complete Vote Smart's Political Courage Test for multiple election cycles
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Expected position: Candidates for federal office are expected to provide explicit issue positions to help voters make informed decisions. Vote Smart repeatedly requested responses throughout Peters' c
Did not publicly address the apparent contradiction between his campaign finance reform advocacy and his own stock trading after a confidential COVID-19 briefing
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Expected position: As a member who has publicly supported the STOCK Act and campaign finance reform, Peters would be expected to address allegations that he traded stocks based on non-public COVID-19
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