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Michael T. McCaul

RepublicanMichael T. McCaul

U.S. Representative · Texas

Texas's 10th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Texas

0 tracked promises

Texas · Texas's 10th district

Texas's 10th district

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How they won their seat

Michael T. McCaul won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 10) with 63.6% of the vote (221,229 votes).

63.6%
Win share
221,229
Votes for winner
347,818
Total cast
  • Michael T. McCaul · Republican63.6%
  • Theresa Boisseau · Democrat34%
  • Jeff Miller · Libertarian2.4%

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

Michael T. McCaul's record includes multiple bills related to national security, foreign affairs, and humanitarian issues. He has sponsored multiple bills related to border security (e.g., HR 8935, HR 8256), support for Israel (e.g., HR 8437, HRES 771), and international humanitarian efforts (e.g., HRES 982). His committee memberships include those related to foreign affairs and homeland security. Focus areas (from the record): national security · foreign affairs · border security · humanitarian issues · healthcare What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal McCaul's motives or intentions behind his legislative actions; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Michael T. McCaul 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 2023–2025 term. 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 Michael T. McCaul 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.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
01234VotesJan '25: 3 YeaJan '25: 1 NayJan '25Jan '25: 4 total
Measures voted on:2 passed1 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
4 of 4 roll calls0 missed

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

Bills sponsored over time

33bills sponsored
5 passed a chamber28 pending
06131925Bills2023: 4 passed a chamber, 18 pending2023: 4 passed a chamber, 18 pending2220232024: 1 passed a chamber, 10 pending2024: 1 passed a chamber, 10 pending112024

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

0%
Votes against own party
0 of 4 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

0%
0 of 33 sponsored bills became law
5 passed a chamber28 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.8M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.8M2026: spent $1.7M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $53K (3%)Large individual (itemized): $926K (54%)54%PAC / committee: $745K (43%)43%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$53K3%
  • Large individual (itemized)$926K54%
  • PAC / committee$745K43%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
420
Nay
139
Present
0
Not voting
96

Full voting record

655 votes
  • HR4795Not voting
  • HR1501Not voting
  • HJRES1Not voting
  • HRES1498Not voting
  • HR9436Not voting
  • HR9436Not voting
  • HRES1490Not voting
  • HRES1499Not voting
  • HRES1499Not voting
  • HR6500Not voting
  • S32Not voting
  • S307Not voting
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The 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 SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NO 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.
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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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