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Henry Cuellar

DemocratHenry Cuellar

U.S. Representative · Texas

Texas's 28th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Texas

0 tracked promises

Texas · Texas's 28th district

Texas's 28th district

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How they won their seat

Henry Cuellar won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 28) with 52.8% of the vote (125,280 votes).

52.8%
Win share
125,280
Votes for winner
237,298
Total cast
  • Henry Cuellar · Democrat52.8%
  • Jay Furman · Republican47.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Henry Cuellar's record includes legislation related to border issues, infrastructure, and local community initiatives. Notable sponsored bills include the LPOE Modernization Trust Fund Act and the Southern Border Communities Reimbursement Act, reflecting legislative activity in border security and infrastructure. His committee membership on Appropriations, particularly in Homeland Security, aligns with these themes. Focus areas (from the record): Border Security · Infrastructure · Community Development · Veterans Affairs · Economic Policy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. Alignment cannot be determined due to lack of evidence regarding declared positions or tracked promises to compare against Cuellar's legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Cuellar's specific motives or intentions behind his sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills he has sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the understanding of his priorities or commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Henry Cuellar has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Henry Cuellar has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Votes cast
609
Voted yea
389
Voted nay
211
Bills sponsored
97
Committees
4

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 28 YeaJun '25: 12 NayJun '25Jul '25: 13 YeaJul '25: 20 NayJul '25Sep '25: 30 YeaSep '25: 32 NaySep '25Nov '25: 16 YeaNov '25: 7 NayNov '25Dec '25: 43 YeaDec '25: 14 NayDec '25Jan '26: 31 YeaJan '26: 16 NayJan '26Feb '26: 19 YeaFeb '26: 11 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 19 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 33 YeaApr '26: 13 NayApr '26May '26: 26 YeaMay '26: 10 NayMay '26Jun '26: 30 YeaJun '26: 12 NayJun '26Jul '26: 8 YeaJul '26: 8 NayJul '26Jun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:463 passed145 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

98.5%
attendance
600 of 609 roll calls9 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

97bills sponsored
1 became law13 pending83 awaiting status
05101520Bills2005: 2 awaiting status220052007: 9 awaiting status920072008: 5 awaiting status520082009: 13 awaiting status1320092010: 3 awaiting status320102011: 9 awaiting status920112012: 2 awaiting status220122013: 2 awaiting status220132014: 1 awaiting status120142015: 6 awaiting status620152016: 2 awaiting status220162017: 8 awaiting status820172018: 1 awaiting status120182019: 6 awaiting status620192020: 3 awaiting status320202021: 10 awaiting status1020212022: 1 awaiting status120222023: 1 became law, 9 pending2023: 1 became law, 9 pending1020232024: 1 pending120242025: 1 pending120252026: 2 pending22026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

24%
Votes against own party
142 of 600 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

7%
1 of 14 sponsored bills became law
1 became law13 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.7M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.7M2026: spent $1.3M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $19K (1%)Large individual (itemized): $829K (51%)51%PAC / committee: $792K (48%)48%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$19K1%
  • Large individual (itemized)$829K51%
  • PAC / committee$792K48%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
389
Nay
211
Present
0
Not voting
9

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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