Brady was the representative for Texas’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1997 to 2022.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Brady was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Brady joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX8, 1997-2022]](/static/legislator-photos/400046-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Brady.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Brady is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 Brady sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Brady was the primary sponsor of 20 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 7014 (117th): To suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 4602 (116th): Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
- H.R. 4514 (116th): Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
- H.R. 4318 (115th): Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018
- H.R. 1 (115th): An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
- H.R. 3823 (115th): Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017
- H.R. 3178 (115th): Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017
Does 20 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
Brady sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Social Welfare (32%) Taxation (18%) Labor and Employment (18%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Brady recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1520 (117th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States …
- H.R. 9143 (117th): To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being …
- H.R. 8000 (117th): Chase COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2022
- H.R. 7014 (117th): To suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the …
- H.R. 5834 (117th): Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2021
- H.R. 5206 (117th): To require the Internal Revenue Service to issue a report on the …
- H.R. 4509 (117th): Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services for Success Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1997 to Dec 2022, Brady missed 915 of 16,660 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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
