Rep. Michael McCaul

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for McCaul.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

McCaul 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 liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills McCaul has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Oct 16, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Michael McCaul sits on the following committees:

• Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• House Committee on Homeland Security

Enacted Legislation

McCaul was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 3359 (115th): Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018
• H.R. 6401: Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018
• H.R. 4708: Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act
• H.R. 1231: RACE for Children Act
• H.R. 820: Childhood Cancer STAR Act
• H.R. 3873 (114th): International Cyber Policy Oversight Act of 2015
• H.R. 755 (113th): To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.

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Does 9 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

McCaul sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (43%) Emergency Management (19%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Health (8%) Taxation (7%) Immigration (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4636: Partnering and Leveraging Assistance to Stop Trash for International Cleaner Seas Act
• H.Res. 521: Commending the Government of Canada for upholding the rule of law and expressing ...
• H.R. 3763: Promoting United States International Leadership in 5G Act of 2019
• H.R. 3377: Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization Act of 2019
• H.R. 3047: U.S- Ukraine Security Cooperation Enhancement Act
• H.R. 2780: SAFE from Illicit Foreign Opioids Act
• H.R. 2744: USAID Branding Modernization Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2005 to Oct 2019, McCaul missed 232 of 10,654 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. 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:

• 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