Kevin Kiley

Kevin Kiley is the U.S. Representative for California's 3rd congressional district, first elected to the House in 2022. Originally a member of the Republican Party, Kiley announced his shift to independent status in March 2026, citing a commitment to bipartisan solutions and a desire to move past increasing political polarization. Before his tenure in Congress, he served in the California State Assembly from 2016 to 2022, where he was recognized for authoring legislation on school choice, criminal justice reform, and consumer privacy. He also gained national attention as a prominent candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election. Born and raised in the Sacramento area, Kiley attended local public schools before earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2007. He subsequently joined Teach for America, teaching 10th-grade English in Los Angeles while earning a master’s degree in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University. He later graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. His legal career included working as a prosecutor and Deputy Attorney General for the State of California, where he represented the state against violent felons and handled intellectual property theft cases. In the House of Representatives, Kiley has held leadership roles on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, including serving as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. He has also been a member of the Judiciary and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. His legislative record includes the introduction of the PRESS Act to protect journalists' sources and the "Fix It Act," a bipartisan effort to extend healthcare subsidies. He has also focused on regional issues such as wildfire prevention, the management of public lands, and securing federal grants for infrastructure projects in the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento regions.

Kiley’s policy platform emphasizes fiscal responsibility, educational freedom, and bipartisan legislative reform. On the economy, he advocates for policies aimed at reducing inflation and ensuring trade stability, while emphasizing the need for workforce development to address challenges posed by artificial intelligence. In education, he is a prominent supporter of school choice and the Federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, which provides tax incentives for scholarship donations. Regarding healthcare, Kiley has supported the temporary extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies through the "Fix It Act" to prevent cost increases for middle-income families, while also calling for increased oversight of Medicare Advantage programs and anti-fraud measures. On foreign policy, Kiley has consistently supported supplemental aid to allies, including Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and played a key role in forcing a House vote on the Ukraine Support Act. His approach to immigration favors bipartisan enforcement reforms; he has voted against party-line immigration legislation in favor of measures such as body cameras for agents and "nonenforcement zones" near schools and churches. Additionally, Kiley is an advocate for electoral reform, introducing legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting and partisan gerrymandering to ensure stable and fair representation.