Weber is the representative for Texas’s 14th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Weber is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 69 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.
Weber was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Weber 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 violent insurrection at the Capitol, Weber 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 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.
Misconduct
In 2021, Rep. Weber was fined for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Nov. 30, 2021 | House Sergeant at Arms fined them for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic |
![Photo of Rep. Randy Weber [R-TX14]](/static/legislator-photos/412574-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Weber.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Weber 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 Weber has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 17, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Randy Weber sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Weber was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 431 (115th): Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2017
- H.R. 5246 (114th): To remove the Federal claim to navigational servitude for a parcel of land in Texas City, Texas, and for other purposes.
Does 2 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
Weber sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Science, Technology, Communications (29%) Crime and Law Enforcement (19%) Immigration (19%) Energy (14%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (10%) International Affairs (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Weber recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9349 (117th): Next Generation Pipelines Research and Development Act
- H.Res. 1445 (117th): Recognizing that the irresponsible withdrawal of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum …
- H.R. 8518 (117th): Texas Coastal Spine Authorization Act
- H.R. 8219 (117th): Justice for American Victims Of Terrorism Act of 2022
- H.R. 7908 (117th): PASS Act
- H.R. 7909 (117th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an …
- H.R. 7907 (117th): Protect Our Children’s Schools Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Mar 2023, Weber missed 116 of 5,834 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% 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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
