Former Member, Calendar Committee, Texas State House of Representatives. The Republican Bonilla was hence out of Congress for the first time since his upset election in 1992.On March 7, 2006, Cuellar again defeated Rodriguez in the Democratic primary with 52 percent of the vote in a three-way race. By joining our advisory group, you can help us make GovTrack more useful and engaging to young voters like you.Some of Cuellar’s most recently sponsored bills include...Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.If you’ve visited a bill page on GovTrack.us recently, you may have noticed a new “study guide” tab located just below the bill title. We hope that with your input we can make GovTrack more accessible to minority and disadvantaged communities who we may currently struggle to reach. He worked at Texas A&M International University, as an adjunct professor of International Commercial Law from 1984 to 1986.
Henry Cuellar sits on the following committees: House Committee on Appropriations *Includes contributions from other candidate committees. NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2019 - 2020 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 07/26/20 for Fundraising totals, Source of Funds and Total Raised vs Average, and on 07/21/20 for Top Contributors and Industries. Member, Congressional Hispanic Caucus. If you can, please take a few minutes to help us improve GovTrack for users like you.From Jan 2005 to Jul 2020, Cuellar missed 186 of 10,963 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. No Republican even attempted to file, ostensibly assuring him of reelection in November.Cuellar was unopposed in the March 4, 2008, Democratic primary.On July 24, 2013, Cuellar voted to continue funding NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens who are not suspected of committing any crime, in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights according to some views of the Bill of Rights. Here are some tips to get started.We hope to make GovTrack more useful to policy professionals like you. The United States House Committee on Appropriations is a committee of the United States House of Representatives that is responsible for passing appropriation bills along with its Senate counterpart. Congressman Cuellar serves on the following committees: House Appropriations Committee. Please help us make GovTrack better address the needs of educators by joining our advisory group.Would you like to join our advisory group to work with us on the future of GovTrack?Thank you for joining the GovTrack Advisory Community! Cuellar opened his own law firm in Laredo in 1981 and became a licensed customs broker in 1983. We hope to enable educators to build lesson plans centered around any bill or vote in Congress, even those as recent as yesterday.You’re more than a vote, so support GovTrack today with a tip of any amount:Email address where we can reach you:The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:GovTrack.us is an independent website tracking the status of legislation in the United States Congress and helping you participate in your national legislature. As the son of migrant workers and former member of the Agriculture Committee, Henry knows the importance of Agriculture and Agricultural trade to families in the 28th District and the national economy. This is on par with the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving.
Now what? Please join our advisory group to let us know what more we can do. Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (Introduced 04/14/2020) Cosponsors: Committees: House - Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 04/23/2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. Join 10 million other Americans using GovTrack to learn about and contact your representative and senators and track what Congress is doing each day.The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:Young Americans have historically been the least involved in politics, despite the huge consequences policies can have on them. The city of Laredo has recognized him by naming two schools in his honor: the Doctor Henry Cuellar Elementary School and the Representative Henry Cuellar Charter School.Cuellar's two main political rivals, Bonilla and Rodriguez, ran against each other in the 23rd, and Rodriguez won the election in the runoff. He is the Vice Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, while also serving on the Defense Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.