Former representative · Texas's 3rd district

Van Taylor

Van Taylor served in Congress from 2019 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for Texas's 3rd district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 25, and cast 553 of 566 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Republican
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: Jan 3, 2019
Last term ended: Jan 3, 2023

Open in the Congress explorer Official 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.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	2.5%25 of 997 · rank 97 of 443	98%553 of 566 · rank 255 of 443	80 became law	43%122 of 287

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+0.58+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.

H.R. 5455: Terry Technical Correction ActYea
Nov 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 307–101· Against party
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
H.R. 2543: Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity ActYea
Jun 15, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 297–123· Against party
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
H.R. 1916: Ensuring Lasting Smiles ActYea
Apr 4, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 310–110· Against party
H.R. 2119: Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021Nay
Oct 26, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 175–250· Against party
H.R. 3005: To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol, and for other purposes.Yea
Jun 29, 2021· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 285–120· Against party
H.R. 3233: National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex ActYea
May 19, 2021· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 252–175· Against party

Recent votes

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

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
H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Nay
Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35· Against party
S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Nay
Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79· Against party
S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Nay
Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71· Against party
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
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
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
S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActNay
Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95· Against party
H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Nay
Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201
S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Yea
Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
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.Yea
Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActYea
Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

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 3rd 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: $0; through Jun 23, 2023
Cash on hand: $0
From committees: -$4,000; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: -$500; 0 PACs · — of committee money

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2024	$0	-$4,000	-$5000 PACs · — of committee money
2022	$2.7M	$477.2K	$93.2K32 PACs · 20% 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 3rd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · Texas's 3rd 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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.