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 Jun 18, 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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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 (18%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Health (8%) Taxation (7%) Immigration (5%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• 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
• H.R. 2691: USAID Branding Modernization Act
• H.R. 2444: Eastern European Security Act
• H.R. 2118: Iran Ballistic Missiles and International Sanctions Enforcement Act
• H.R. 2002: Taiwan Assurance Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2005 to Jun 2019, McCaul missed 230 of 10,457 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.

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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