Former representative · Texas's 26th district
Michael C. Burgess
Michael C. Burgess served in Congress from 2003 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Texas's 26th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 34, and cast 801 of 833 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 7, 2003
- Last term ended
- Jan 3, 2025
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.
| Congress | Roll calls | Missed | Votes with party | Sponsored | Cosponsored across the aisle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,222 | 2.8%34 of 1,222 · rank 192 of 442 | 96%801 of 833 · rank 257 of 442 | 420 became law | 18%37 of 204 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 3.0%30 of 997 · rank 74 of 443 | 98%543 of 554 · rank 225 of 443 | 440 became law | 26%76 of 292 |
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.
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.
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 158–257· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–295· Against party
- Jul 11, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 149–262· Against party
- Jun 13, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 192–230· Against party
- Jun 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 201–217· Against party
- H.R. 8580: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025YeaJun 4, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 290–116· Against party
- Apr 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 311–112· Against party
- Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 212–212· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not votingDec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
- Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37· Against party
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96· Against party
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39· Against party
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
- 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.
86 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced6474%
- Reported by committee33.5%
- Passed one chamber1922%
Policy areas
- Health28
- Congress16
- Immigration6
- Energy5
- Commerce4
- International Affairs4
- Taxation4
- Armed Forces and National Security3
Latest activity
- H.Res. 1616 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 115) to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for en bloc consideration in resolutions of disapproval for "midnight rules'', and for other purposes.Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 977 Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 9001 Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 6794 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the Medicare independence at home medical practice demonstration program.Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 5391 Protecting Patient Access to Cancer and Complex Therapies ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 4968 GOLD CARD Act of 2023Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 4402 To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify manufacturer transparency reporting requirements for certain transfers used for educational purposes.Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 3284 Providers and Payers COMPETE ActReported by committee· Health· Dec 5, 2024
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 26th 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
- $47.3M
- Per resident
- $56.42
- Rank in Texas
- 37 of 38
- Contract actions
- 4,559
- New awards: 3,995
By fiscal year
- 92.6MFY2017
- 151.7MFY2018
- 180.5MFY2019
- 133.9MFY2020
- 195.6MFY2021
- 174.7MFY2022
- 85MFY2023
- 31.7MFY2024
- 68.3MFY2025
- 47.3MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of the Air Force$22.7M48%Department of Defense
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection$12.8M27%Department of Homeland Security
- Defense Logistics Agency$8M17%Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.7M3.6%
- Public Buildings Service$1.5M3.2%General Services Administration
- Department of Justice
- Federal Aviation Administration$468.7K1.0%Department of Transportation
Top recipients
- U.S. AVIATION GROUP LLC$16.3M34%2 awards
- AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$12.7M27%3 awards
- 1 award
- M1 SUPPORT SERVICES, L.P.$5.2M11%5 awards
- RED CREEK SOLUTIONS LLC$5.1M11%1 award
- PULSETECH PRODUCTS CORPORATION$3.3M6.9%71 awards
- VET CON SOUZA$1.7M3.5%1 award
- MELGAR FACILITY MAINTENANCE LLC$1.5M3.2%2 awards
- AVIATECH CORPORATION$1.5M3.1%16 awards
- DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL LLC$1.3M2.8%3 awards
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
- -$26.03
- through Jul 15, 2025
- Cash on hand
- $0
- From committees
- -$3,500
- 1 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $0
- 0 PACs · — of committee money
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | -$26.03 | -$3,500 | $00 PACs · — of committee money |
| 2024 | $1.3M | $269.6K | $56K24 PACs · 21% of committee money |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $685.3K | $145.9K44 PACs · 21% 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.
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
- House · Texas's 26th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
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)
- 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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)
- 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.