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Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX28]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 28th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:28th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 19, 1955 / 54 years old

To contact Henry Cuellar, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Cuellar for more biographical and issue information.

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Henry Cuellar has represented Texas’s 28th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Henry Cuellar:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 28th
(was preceeded by Rep. Ciro Rodriguez [D-TX23])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Cuellar is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Cuellar is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Cuellar sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Cuellar’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Cuellar, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Cuellar and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Cuellar.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Cuellar's bills without Cuellar returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordHenry Cuellar missed 92 (2%) of 3985 votes since Jan 4, 2005. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Cuellar in 2007-2008 was $21,900 from employees of International Bancshares Corp. Henry Cuellar’s net worth was between $199,013 and $1,459,998 in 2007, according to Cuellar’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cuellar.

Committee Membership

Henry Cuellar sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Henry Cuellar has sponsored 27 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 23 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Cuellar has co-sponsored 508 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cuellar and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

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

H.R. 2423: A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the "George P. Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
H.R. 3980: Redundancy Elimination and Enhanced Performance for Preparedness Grants Act
H.R. 1436: Government Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Accountability Act
H.R. 1437: Southern Border Security Task Force Act of 2009
H.R. 315: Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.