Rep. Gene Green
Former Representative for Texas’s 29th District
pronounced jeen // green
Green was the representative for Texas’s 29th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1993 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. Gene Green [D-TX29, 1993-2018]](/static/legislator-photos/400160-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 Report Card for Green.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Green is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2018 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Green sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2013 to Dec 21, 2018. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Green was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5385 (115th): Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018
- H.R. 1532 (110th): Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2008
- H.R. 1343 (110th): Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008
- H.R. 727 (110th): Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007
- H.R. 584 (110th): To designate the Federal building located at 400 Maryland Avenue Southwest in the District of Columbia as the ‘Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building’.
- H.R. 1776 (107th): Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area Study Act
Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Green sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (54%) Labor and Employment (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (11%) Private Legislation (7%) Transportation and Public Works (7%) Government Operations and Politics (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Green recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5794 (115th): Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2018
- H.R. 5802 (115th): Ensuring Complete Coverage of Medication-Assisted Treatment Act
- H.R. 5803 (115th): SAFETY Act of 2018
- H.R. 5385 (115th): Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018
- H.Res. 605 (115th): Congratulating the Houston Astros on winning the 2017 Major League Baseball World …
- H.R. 2869 (115th): For the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.
- H.R. 2688 (115th): Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1993 to Dec 2018, Green missed 706 of 17,170 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2018. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
