Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress
Bill Flores
Bill Flores was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2011, who voted with most Republicans on 95% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 1 bill that became law (113th–116th Congress).
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- NayOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments — American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and…Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — Drywall Safety Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 7349 Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment ActSep 11, 2020 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- H.R. 7676 Health Care PRICE Transparency ActJul 20, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 7401 Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines ActJun 29, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 6885 Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020May 15, 2020 · Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the…
- H.Res. 575 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all stakeholders in the deployment of 5G communications infrastructure should carefully consider…Jan 8, 2020 · The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4199 (113th) To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, Texas, as the "Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".Became law
- H.R. 2728 (113th) Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2910 (115th) Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 6140 (115th) Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2481 (113th) Veterans Economic Opportunity Act of 2013Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1172 (115th) Honoring the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1760 (116th) Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability ActPassed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 125 (113th) Providing for the sine die adjournment of the second session of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Flores has won
Rep. Flores has won 5 U.S. House elections (2010–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 15.5 to 59.9 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Texas’s 17th district done while Rep. Flores served?
2012 to 2019 in TX-17: typical household income was up 15% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.2 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 4.0 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Texas’s 17th district during Flores’s time representing it (2011 to 2021). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. TX-17 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2012 to 2019 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2011 to 2021.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
116th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 20 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 20 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 18 | See the 18 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 116th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.