Former member of Congress · last served 118th Congress
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee was a Democratic U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 1995, who voted with most Democrats on 92% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 5 bills that became law (113th–118th 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
- YeaOn 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
- NayOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 3208 DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program ActDec 17, 2024 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 710.
- H.R. 282 Infant Protection and Baby Switching Prevention Act of 2023Dec 17, 2024 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- H.R. 7840 ProTECT Act of 2024Dec 12, 2024 · ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Lieu asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 7840, a bill originally…
- H.R. 9044 To provide for citizen engagement on the development and adoption of Federal civilian agency use of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.Jul 15, 2024 · Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined…
- H.R. 9043 To provide for Federal civilian agency laboratory development for testing and certification of artificial intelligence for civilian agency use, and for other…Jul 15, 2024 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 434 (116th) Emancipation National Historic Trail Study ActBecame law
- H.R. 78 (113th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4110 Almeda Road in Houston, Texas, as the "George Thomas 'Mickey' Leland Post Office…Became law
- H.R. 835 (116th) Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019Became law
- H.R. 6100 (116th) STOP FGM Act of 2020Became law
- H.R. 710 (114th) To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to prepare a comprehensive security assessment of the transportation security card program, and for other…Became law
- H.R. 4510 (109th) To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable location in the…Became law
- H.R. 6510 (111th) To direct the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in Houston, Texas, to the Military Museum of Texas, and for other purposes.Became law
- H.Res. 740 (110th) Condemning in the strongest terms the attacks on African Union peacekeepers that occurred in Haskanita, Darfur, Sudan, on September 29, 2007.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Lee has won
Rep. Lee has won 15 U.S. House elections (1994–2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 42.9 to 82.5 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 18th district done while Rep. Lee served?
2012 to 2021 in TX-18: typical household income was up 12% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.8 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.9 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 18th district during Lee’s time representing it (1995 to 2024). 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-18 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 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 1995 to 2024.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
118th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 55 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 55 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 46 | See the 46 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 118th 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.