DemocratVeronica Escobar
U.S. Representative · Texas
Texas's 16th district
U.S. Representative from Texas
2 tracked promises
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How they won their seat
Veronica Escobar won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 16) with 59.5% of the vote (131,391 votes).
- Veronica Escobar · Democrat59.5%131,391
- Irene Armendariz Jackson · Republican40.4%89,281
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%156
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
Veronica Escobar's record includes sponsorship of bills related to military and veterans' issues, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Streamlining Military Infrastructure Act and the El Paso VA Medical Center Activation Readiness Act of 2026. Additionally, her record includes sponsorship of bills related to environmental and public health concerns, reflected in her sponsorship of the Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act and the Disarm Hate Act. Focus areas (from the record): Military Affairs · Veterans' Services · Environmental Policy · Public Health · Community Support Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits understanding of her priorities; The effectiveness of her sponsored bills is unclear, as none have become law; No information is available regarding her engagement outside of sponsored bills and votes. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Veronica Escobar 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 2026. 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 Veronica Escobar 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
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. 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.
Independence
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
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$21K2%
- Large individual (itemized)$472K55%
- PAC / committee$366K43%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Homeland SecurityOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Not yet ratedNo promises have been rated yet, so there is no Integrity Score to show. Lifecycle promises (in progress, not yet rated) are tracked but never scored.
The score, once promises are rated, is a signed −100…+100 breakdown weighted by significance and evidence confidence — never a single opaque grade. How this is measured.
Integrity over time
Topic coverage
2 promises across 2 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- Armed Forces and National Security1 promise
- Veterans housing and VA home loan benefits1 promise
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)2100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
2 tracked promises
“Will extend to the VA home loan program the same kind of support available for other VA benefits, giving veterans access to free, independent guidance when buying a home, refinancing, or fighting to stay in their homes.”
“Will require the Department of Defense to strengthen the JROTC instructor pipeline and provide Congress with the accountability needed to ensure students have access to the leadership opportunities JROTC provides.”
Verified record
70 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $730,213, spent $557,795, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9738: Streamlining Military Infrastructure Act ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9739: To prohibit the exercise of the right of eminent domain with respect to Mount Cristo Rey. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9403: JROTC POWER Act ↗Jun 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9404: VA Home Loan Navigator Act ↗Jun 23, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1327: Supporting the designation of May 2026 as "Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month". ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8372: El Paso VA Medical Center Activation Readiness Act of 2026 ↗Apr 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7823: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program of the Department of Homeland Security, to provide to individuals whose enrollment in a Trusted Traveler program is denied, suspended, or early terminated an option to appeal such denial, suspension, or early termination, as the case may be, and for other purposes. ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6632: El Paso Air Traffic Control Tower Modernization Act ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6258: Disarm Hate Act ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6185: Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2025 ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5020: Supporting Our Shelters Act ↗Aug 22, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4757: Pigs and Public Health Act ↗Jul 25, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 70 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 268
- Nay
- 379
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 8
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- 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
4 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.
- Veterans housing and VA home loan benefitsStated position
Will extend to the VA home loan program the same kind of support available for other VA benefits, giving veterans access to free, independent guidance when buying a home, refinancing, or fighting to stay in their homes.
SourcesOffice of Congresswoman Veronica EscobarView position & sources → - Armed Forces and National SecurityStated position
Will require the Department of Defense to strengthen the JROTC instructor pipeline and provide Congress with the accountability needed to ensure students have access to the leadership opportunities JROTC provides.
SourcesOffice of Congresswoman Veronica EscobarView position & sources → - 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
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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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