Former representative · Texas's 8th district

Kevin Brady

Kevin Brady served in Congress from 1997 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for Texas's 8th district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 201, and cast 469 of 486 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 7, 1997
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2023
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
117th CongressHouse of Representatives99720.2%201 of 997 · rank 2 of 44397%469 of 486 · rank 308 of 443130 became law21%21 of 102

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 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.52+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. 1456: Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022Yea
    Sep 19, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 290–125· Against party
  2. H.R. 884: National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act of 2022Yea
    Sep 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 293–133· Against party
  3. H.R. 5315: Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant ActYea
    Sep 13, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 308–110· Against party
  4. H.R. 263: Big Cat Public Safety ActYea
    Jul 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 278–134· Against party
  5. H.R. 5118: Continental Divide Trail Completion ActYea
    Jul 29, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 296–128· Against party
  6. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Yea
    Jul 14, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 277–150· Against party
  7. H.R. 7309: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022Yea
    May 17, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 313–107· Against party
  8. H.R. 6825: Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    May 16, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 288–129· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201
  2. H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
  3. S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79
  4. S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Not voting
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71
  5. S. 5087: A bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
  6. S. 4104: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
  7. S. 3773: A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
  8. S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActNay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95· Against party
  9. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201
  10. S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Not voting
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
  11. S. 3168: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.Not voting
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
  12. H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActNot voting
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

Sponsored bills

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

13 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced13100%

Policy areas

  1. Foreign Trade and International Finance3
  2. Labor and Employment3
  3. Social Welfare2
  4. Taxation2
  5. Economics and Public Finance1
  6. Energy1
  7. Government Operations and Politics1

Latest activity

  1. H.Res. 1520 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reengage with trading partners, particularly like-minded Allies with market-based economies and high labor and environmental standards, to promote trade in environmental goods, services, and technologies in new or existing bilateral and plurilateral dialogues with a view to negotiating a new environmental goods agreement with updated product coverage to broaden United States export opportunities, support United States jobs, and enhance the environmental contribution of any new trade agreement.
    Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Dec 14, 2022
  2. H.R. 9143 To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.
    Introduced· Taxation· Oct 7, 2022
  3. H.R. 8000 Chase COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2022
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Jun 9, 2022
  4. H.R. 7014 To suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Mar 9, 2022
  5. H.R. 5834 Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2021
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Nov 3, 2021
  6. H.R. 5206 To require the Internal Revenue Service to issue a report on the tax gap, to establish a fellowship program within the Internal Revenue Service to recruit mid-career tax professionals to create and participate in an audit task force, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Taxation· Sep 10, 2021
  7. H.R. 4509 Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services for Success Act
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Jul 19, 2021
  8. H.R. 4037 Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021
    Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Jun 22, 2021

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 8th 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.

Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.

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.

2024 cycle

Raised
$8,998
through Dec 31, 2024
Cash on hand
$356.7K
From committees
-$10.5K
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2024$8,998-$10.5K$00 PACs · — of committee money
2022$348.5K$128.5K$33.5K12 PACs · 26% 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 8th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  2. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  6. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  7. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  8. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  9. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  10. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
  11. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
  12. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001
  13. House · Texas's 8th districtJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999

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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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)
  • 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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.