Rep. Ronny Jackson
Representative for Texas’s 13th District
pronounced RON-ee // JAK-sun
![Photo of Rep. Ronny Jackson [R-TX13]](/static/legislator-photos/456847-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.
Jackson was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Jackson voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Alleged misconduct & resolution
In 2022, the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation into possible campaign finance violations because Rep. Jackson used campaign funds to pay for membership at an Amarillo social club. That investigation may be continuing. In June of 2024, the House Ethics Committee announced an apparent second separate investigation since the Office of Congressional Ethics issued a second report recommending further review by House Ethics in early 2024 on the same topic because Rep. Jackson has continued to use campaign funds all this time to pay the Amarillo Club.
| Mar. 15, 2024 | Office of Congressional Ethics recommended further review by the House Committee on Ethics |
| Jun. 24, 2024 | House Committee on Ethics extended the matter regarding the representative |
In 2022, the House Committee on Ethics announced it would extend its investigation of allegations of campaign finance violations. The Committee carried its investigation into the 118th Congress.
| Dec. 22, 2021 | Office of Congressional Ethics recommended further review by the House Committee on Ethics |
| Apr. 7, 2022 | House Committee on Ethics extended the matter regarding the representative |
| Apr. 7, 2022 | Jackson's office said that the investigation concerned alleged campaign finance violations. |
| May. 23, 2022 | House Committee on Ethics published the Office of Congressional Ethics Report and Findings and Jackson's response |
| Jan. 3, 2023 | House Committee on Ethics carried the investigation into the 118th Congress |
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Jackson 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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Dec 4, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Ronny Jackson sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Jackson 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
Jackson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (32%) International Affairs (20%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Immigration (10%) Taxation (8%) Agriculture and Food (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%) Science, Technology, Communications (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Jackson recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9923: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 505 …
- H.R. 9208: Improving Military Recruitment at Senior Military Colleges Act
- H.R. 9155: Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act
- H.R. 9103: Air Force Technical Training Enhancement Act
- H.R. 8434: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 107 …
- H.R. 8229: LIP Enhancement Act of 2024
- H.Res. 1041: Condemning the order issued by the International Court of Justice on January 26, …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Dec 2024, Jackson missed 85 of 2,213 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% 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. Jackson for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
