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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.

Showing 2020. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

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
3

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

Bills sponsored over time

3bills sponsored
3 awaiting status
01234Bills2020: 3 awaiting status32020

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

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

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

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

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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