Fallon is the representative for Texas’s 4th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Fallon is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 55 years old.
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.
Fallon was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Fallon 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 pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. 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. Patrick “Pat” Fallon [R-TX4]](/static/legislator-photos/456845-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Fallon.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Fallon 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 Fallon has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 29, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Patrick “Pat” Fallon sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Fallon was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
Fallon sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (35%) Immigration (24%) Armed Forces and National Security (24%) International Affairs (18%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Fallon recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1394: American SAFER Act of 2023
- H.R. 1286: Lone Star Reimbursement Act
- H.R. 979: No Terrorists on U.S. Soil Act of 2023
- H.R. 627: VOTE Act
- H.R. 499: SAFE from PRC Investments Act
- H.Res. 8: Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
- H.J.Res. 3: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Mar 2023, Fallon missed 28 of 1,180 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is worse than the median of 1.6% 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, 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
- Office of Rep. Fallon for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
