Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Cuellar has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Cuellar is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Cuellar for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Henry Cuellar sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Appropriations
- Member, Subcommittee on Homeland Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cuellar sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (100%)
Recent Bills
Some of Cuellar’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 833: Recommending the designation of the first Wednesday of December as “Government Customer Service ...
- H.R. 5591: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 810 ...
- H.R. 3688: To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo ...
- H.R. 3612: Making emergency appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, to address ...
- H.R. 2060: United States-Mexico Economic Partnership Act
- H.R. 1744: To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria ...
- H.R. 875: Cross-Border Trade Enhancement Act of 2015
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Voting Record
From Jan 2005 to Sep 2016, Cuellar missed 160 of 8,814 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 4 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills