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DemocratJoaquin Castro
U.S. Representative · Texas
Texas's 20th district
U.S. Representative from Texas
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How they won their seat
Joaquin Castro won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 20) with 100% of the vote (157,890 votes).
- Joaquin Castro · Democrat100%157,890
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
Joaquin Castro's record shows a pattern of involvement in international relations, particularly concerning Latin America and Asia, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the 'No Unauthorized War in Mexico Act' and the 'Strengthening US-Caribbean Partnership Act'. Additionally, his involvement in committees related to intelligence and foreign affairs shows a pattern of involvement in national security and diplomatic efforts. Focus areas (from the record): International Relations · National Security · Latin America · Diplomacy · Education Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his sponsored bills and committee memberships. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any specific motives behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the proposed legislation; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Joaquin Castro 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 2023. 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 Joaquin Castro 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 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)$48K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$507K42%
- PAC / committee$642K54%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — East Asia and PacificOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Western HemisphereOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — Central Intelligence AgencyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — National Security Agency and CyberOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — Oversight and InvestigationsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
171 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 HR 9698: Advanced Coursework Equity Act ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7675: Securing Partner Supply Chains Act ↗Feb 25, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1012: Recognizing and honoring Cristina M. Rodríguez for her historic appointment as dean of Yale Law School. ↗Jan 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7059: No Unauthorized War in Mexico Act ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6910: United States International Development Corporation Chief Development Officer Act ↗Dec 19, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 969: Expressing support for the designation of the week beginning on September 8, 2025, as "National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week". ↗Dec 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6736: ARMAS Act of 2025 ↗Dec 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6563: Terrorist Watchlist Modification Review Act ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6562: United States Development Finance Corporation Effectiveness Act ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6347: Global Child Thrive Reauthorization Act of 2025 ↗Dec 2, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 653: Expressing support for the Japanese Diet's Caucus for Universal Values in the Indo-Pacific and for continued United States-Japan interparliamentary collaboration to advance democracy in the region. ↗Aug 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4489: Sunshine on Solar Lending Act ↗Jul 17, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 171 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 259
- Nay
- 374
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 21
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Nay
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record asserting that the government ordinarily must obtain a judicial warrant to compel cell phone location data, and urging the DHS Inspector General to open a second investigation into ICE and other DHS components purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without one.
SourcesBicameral letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari requesting a second investigation of warrantless purchases of Americans' cell phone location data by ICE and other DHS componentsView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
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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