Former member of Congress · last served 113th Congress

Pete P. Gallego

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · TexasHouse 2013–2015 (TX-23)

Pete Gallego was a Democratic U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2013.

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8Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–113th Congress (excludes amendments)

0Passed a chamberof 8 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

0Became law113th–113th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

H.R. 5341 To delay for 1 year the application of Revenue Ruling 2012-18 with respect to the characterization of payments as tips or service charges.
Jul 31, 2014 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 5198 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an appeal process for designation as qualified census tracts and difficult development areas under the…
Jul 24, 2014 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 3296 Pay America First Act
Oct 16, 2013 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 3215 Shutdown Pay for Members of Congress Act of 2013
Sep 28, 2013 · Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently…
H.R. 3214 Preserve our National Security Act
Sep 28, 2013 · Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 1420 (113th) American Export Promotion Act of 2013
4 cosponsors
H.R. 2755 (113th) Border Security Tax Relief Act of 2013
2 cosponsors

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Gallego has won

Rep. Gallego has won 1 U.S. House election (2012–2012). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.8 to 4.8 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won1 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 4.8 points2012, TX-23

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 1 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Texas’s 23rd districtWinners, most recent three: Pete P. Gallego (D) 2012 → Will Hurd (R) 2014–2018 → Tony Gonzales (R) 2020–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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 23rd district done while Rep. Gallego served?

2013 to 2014 in TX-23: typical household income was up 6% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.

Typical household income · after inflation

TX-23: $64.6K in 2013 → $68.5K in 2014

TX-23 up 6%Texas up 1%U.S. up 1%

Share of people below the poverty line

TX-23: 18.8% in 2013 → 18.2% in 2014

TX-23 about the sameTexas down 0.4 pointsU.S. down 0.3 points

Share of workers looking for a job

TX-23: 8.1% in 2013 → 6.9% in 2014

TX-23 about the sameTexas down 1.0 pointsU.S. down 1.2 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 23rd district during Gallego’s time representing it (2013 to 2015). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. TX-23 was redrawn in 2007, 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Gallego’s term so far (2013 and 2014) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

113th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 8 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	8	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	8	See the 8 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	0	None listed
With a committee report listed	0	None listed

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 113th 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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.