Rep. Silvestre Reyes

Former Representative from Texas's 16^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1997-2013	Representative	Texas's 16^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Reyes was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Reyes’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Reyes to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to Jan 2013, Reyes missed 890 of 10,969 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	5	7.0%	80^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	7	4.0%	71^st
1997 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	95^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	31^st
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	27^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	29	15.7%	96^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	6	3.0%	62^nd
1998 Oct-Dec	74	2	2.7%	58^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	21	27.3%	98^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	13	7.1%	85^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	21	10.3%	93^rd
1999 Oct-Nov	146	7	4.8%	76^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	60^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	8	2.9%	54^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	64^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	12	11.9%	74^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	56^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	12	8.1%	91^st
2001 Oct-Dec	153	25	16.3%	96^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	5	6.3%	79^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	36	17.7%	97^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	2	1.4%	38^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	10	16.4%	93^rd
2003 Jan-Mar	94	5	5.3%	78^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	20	8.4%	90^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	12	6.2%	82^nd
2003 Oct-Dec	151	26	17.2%	96^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	26	25.0%	98^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	69	31.2%	98^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	17	10.6%	86^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	4	6.9%	67^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	2	2.2%	38^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	32	11.8%	94^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	17	11.6%	93^rd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	43	26.4%	98^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	2	2.5%	60^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	34	12.3%	97^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	19^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	10	2.5%	65^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	5	1.6%	40^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	31	11.8%	93^rd
2008 Jan-Mar	149	27	18.1%	95^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	12	3.7%	59^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	19	9.3%	87^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	5	2.9%	63^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	28	9.2%	93^rd
2009 Jul-Sep	268	5	1.9%	51^st
2009 Oct-Dec	246	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	11	5.6%	73^rd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	17	7.8%	83^rd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	8	5.3%	79^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	24	24.2%	95^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	10	4.7%	88^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	4	1.4%	52^nd
2011 Jul-Sep	247	12	4.9%	81^st
2011 Oct-Dec	208	6	2.9%	59^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	11	7.3%	83^rd
2012 Apr-Jun	299	2	0.7%	31^st
2012 Jul-Sep	152	43	28.3%	98^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	34	66.7%	99^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th