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DemocratHenry Cuellar
U.S. Representative · Texas
Texas's 28th district
U.S. Representative from Texas
0 tracked promises
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).
- Henry Cuellar · Democrat52.8%125,280
- Jay Furman · Republican47.2%112,018
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.
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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.
- Bills sponsored
- 6
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$19K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$829K51%
- PAC / committee$792K48%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — DefenseOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Homeland SecurityOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
97 sponsored billsFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1413: Recognizing the 271st anniversary of Laredo, Texas. ↗Jul 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7865: American Consumer Tariff Rebate Act of 2026 ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 1297: LPOE Modernization Trust Fund Act ↗Feb 13, 2025
- Sponsored HR 9006: Hazardous Workplace Accountability Act of 2024 ↗Jul 11, 2024
- Sponsored HR 6377: ARCC Act ↗Nov 13, 2023
- Sponsored HR 6240: To modify a certain commercial zone in Texas to include Zapata County, and for other purposes. ↗Nov 6, 2023
- Sponsored HR 6183: Office of Colonias and Farmworker Initiatives Establishment Act of 2023 ↗Nov 2, 2023
- Sponsored HR 4540: Water Infrastructure Enhancement Act of 2023 ↗Jul 11, 2023
- Sponsored HR 3569: Starr–Camargo Bridge Expansion Act ↗May 22, 2023
- Sponsored HR 3135: LPOE Modernization Trust Fund Act ↗May 9, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2936: Highway Accident Fairness Act of 2023 ↗Apr 27, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2754: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2395 East Del Mar Boulevard in Laredo, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building". ↗Apr 20, 2023
Showing the 12 most recent of 97 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 389
- Nay
- 211
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 9
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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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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