Rep. Silvestre Reyes

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Reyes is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013 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 Reyes sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 1, 2013. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Reyes was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 1560 (112th): To amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine …
• H.R. 4119 (112th): Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012
• H.R. 2701 (111th): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
• H.R. 2053 (111th): To designate the United States courthouse located at 525 Magoffin Avenue in El Paso, Texas, as the “Albert Armendariz, Sr., United States Courthouse”.
• H.R. 6304 (110th): FISA Amendments Act of 2008
• H.R. 860 (109th): To provide for the conveyance of the reversionary interest of the United States in certain lands to the Clint Independent School District, El Paso County, Texas.
• H.R. 233 (106th): To designate the Federal building located at 700 East San Antonio Street in El Paso, Texas, as the “Richard C. White Federal Building”.

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Does 8 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

Reyes sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (14%) Emergency Management (11%) International Affairs (9%) Native Americans (9%) Law (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Reyes recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 6359 (112th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross …
• H.R. 6055 (112th): Facilitating Access of Services and Trade Act of 2012
• H.R. 4119 (112th): Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012
• H.R. 3279 (112th): To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that caregivers for …
• H.R. 3033 (112th): To amend the Anti-Smuggling Act to subject vehicles, other conveyances, and instruments …
• H.R. 2298 (112th): Border Health Security Act of 2011
• H.R. 2264 (112th): Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2011

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Jan 2013, Reyes missed 890 of 10,969 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills