# Robert Garcia Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California and **Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform**, the chamber's principal investigative committee. Before Congress he was mayor of Long Beach. As ranking member he is the House-side counterpart to Senate Democrats on federal ethics and self-dealing inquiries, and would be positioned to chair the committee — and issue subpoenas — if Democrats win the House in the [[2026 Midterms]]. ## Why this page exists in this KB Garcia co-signed the **August 12, 2026 letter to the President** with Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] demanding the identity of the third-party managers said to direct the president's brokerage accounts, and enumerating thirty transactions that overlapped official government actions. The letter set an **August 28, 2026** response deadline and is the primary document behind [[Spending Gap - No Role in Selecting Investments vs. the 1,051-Trade June Ledger]]. He is also named alongside [[Jamie Raskin]] in reporting on what a Democratic House majority would investigate — the crypto ventures, the pardons, and the compensation fund — in the [[Trump Corruption News Log]]. ## Related [[Elizabeth Warren]] · [[Jamie Raskin]] · [[Trump Corruption News Log]] · [[The Spending Gap]] · [[2026 Midterms]]