Rep. Filemon Vela

Committee Membership

Filemon Vela sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
  • Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  • Member, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Vela’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 2307: Working to Address Treaty Enforcement Rapidly for Texas Act
• H.R. 1863: To require the Secretary of State to submit a report on water sharing ...
• H.R. 583: Putting Our Resources Toward Security (PORTS) Act

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Voting Record

From Jan 2013 to Jun 2013, Vela missed 1 of 252 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• New Member Pictorial Directory (113th), Committee on House Administration for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills