Former representative · Texas's 32nd district

Colin Z. Allred

Colin Z. Allred served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Texas's 32nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 15, and cast 768 of 846 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2019
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,2221.2%15 of 1,222 · rank 309 of 44291%768 of 846 · rank 363 of 442210 became law25%149 of 604
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.0%10 of 997 · rank 221 of 44397%554 of 569 · rank 269 of 443141 became law11%43 of 385

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.42+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.R. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
    Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
  2. H.R. 9495: Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages ActYea
    Nov 21, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 219–184· Against party
  3. H.R. 1449: CLEAN ActYea
    Nov 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 244–171· Against party
  4. H.R. 8446: Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2024Yea
    Nov 14, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 245–155· Against party
  5. H.R. 9495: Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages ActYea
    Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Failed 256–145· Against party
  6. H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161· Against party
  7. H.R. 3334: STOP CCP ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 243–174· Against party
  8. H.R. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActYea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  8. S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Yea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
  11. S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActYea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

35 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced3394%
  2. Passed one chamber12.9%
  3. Became law12.9%

Policy areas

  1. Government Operations and Politics7
  2. Armed Forces and National Security5
  3. International Affairs5
  4. Crime and Law Enforcement3
  5. Education2
  6. Law2
  7. Science, Technology, Communications2
  8. Sports and Recreation2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 9615 Know Your Polling Place Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 9599 Skills Against Violence Act of 2024
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Sep 16, 2024
  3. H.R. 9185 Helping Student Parents Succeed Act
    Introduced· Education· Jul 30, 2024
  4. H.R. 8567 Informing VETS Act
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jul 23, 2024
  5. H.R. 8959 AmeriCorps Access for Dreamers Act
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Jul 9, 2024
  6. H.R. 8794 Border Workforce Improvement Act
    Introduced· Immigration· Jun 21, 2024
  7. H.Res. 1250 Commemorating the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· May 22, 2024
  8. H.R. 4898 Global Press Freedom Act
    Introduced· International Affairs· Jul 26, 2023

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Texas's 32nd district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Obligations · FY2026
$264.4M
Per resident
$349
Rank in Texas
29 of 38
Contract actions
49.7K
New awards: 48.5K

By fiscal year

  1. 318.1MFY2017
  2. 414.1MFY2018
  3. 506.3MFY2019
  4. 473MFY2020
  5. 503.9MFY2021
  6. 239.9MFY2022
  7. 393.9MFY2023
  8. 391.7MFY2024
  9. 355.5MFY2025
  10. 264.4MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$170.1M64%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Air Force$79.7M30%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$30.5M12%
  4. Department of the Navy$15.4M5.8%
    Department of Defense
  5. Office of the Secretary$9.8M3.7%
    Department of Commerce
  6. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$5.7M2.2%
    Department of Homeland Security
  7. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$4.8M1.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. Federal Acquisition Service$4.1M1.6%
    General Services Administration

Top recipients

  1. VETJET FUELS LLC$143.3M54%
    274 awards
  2. CONTINENTAL ELECTRONICS CORP$41.7M16%
    7 awards
  3. ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.$23.3M8.8%
    2 awards
  4. DELL FEDERAL SYSTEMS L.P$14.9M5.6%
    28 awards
  5. RQI PARTNERS LLC$13.5M5.1%
    3 awards
  6. BROTHERS PRODUCE OF DALLAS, INC.$9.4M3.5%
    44,678 awards
  7. VETERAN ELEVATED SOLUTIONS, LLC$8.1M3.1%
    1 award
  8. BLUE YONDER DEFENSE SOLUTIONS, LLC$5.1M1.9%
    3 awards
  9. OEI-AECOM JOINT VENTURE$4.7M1.8%
    1 award
  10. INNOVATIVE SIGNAL ANALYSIS INC.$4.5M1.7%
    2 awards
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Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised
$7.4M
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$159.9K
From committees
$50.8K
15 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · 0% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$7.4M$50.8K$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2024$598.1K$108.3K-$1,0000 PACs · -1% of committee money
2022$3.5M$612.7K$23.8K7 PACs · 4% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · Texas's 32nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Texas's 32nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Texas's 32nd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.