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Rep. Michael Cloud

Representative for Texas’s 27th District

pronounced MĪ-kul // klowd

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Cloud is the representative for Texas’s 27th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jul 10, 2018. Cloud’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2023.

Cloud is among the Republican legislators who participated in President Trump’s months-long, multifarious attempted coup during the 2020 presidential election and culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. Shortly after the election, Cloud 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.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the insurrection at the Capitol, Cloud voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol disrupted Congress’s count of electors that determined the outcome of the presidential election with the goal to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office.
Photo of Rep. Michael Cloud [R-TX27]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Cloud is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Cloud has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Nov 29, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Michael Cloud sits on the following committees:

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Cloud sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (23%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Taxation (18%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) International Affairs (9%) Law (9%) Economics and Public Finance (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Cloud recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Cloud voted Nay

Passed 360/64 on Sep 22, 2022.

Cloud voted Nay

Cloud voted Nay

Passed 361/69 on Mar 9, 2022.

Cloud voted Nay

Passed 327/85 on Dec 21, 2020.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a major government funding bill, which also included economic stimulus provisions due …

Cloud voted Nay

Cloud voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jul 2018 to Nov 2022, Cloud missed 49 of 2,063 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: