Former member of Congress · last served 117th Congress

Van Taylor

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · TexasHouse 2019–2023 (TX-3)

Van Taylor was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2019.

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16Bills & resolutions sponsored116th–117th Congress (excludes amendments)

1Passed a chamberof 16 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

0Became law116th–117th 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. 5990 Dual Credit Innovation Act
Nov 16, 2021 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
H.R. 3364 Truth in Taxation Act of 2021
Nov 9, 2021 · Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
H.R. 2902 Elected Official Lobbying Prohibition Act of 2021
Oct 19, 2021 · Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
H.R. 3367 Gold Star Children Act
May 25, 2021 · Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
H.R. 3010 Search and Rescue Dog Protection Act
May 10, 2021 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 3246 (116th) Traveling Parents Screening Consistency Act of 2019
Passed a chamber
H.R. 7809 (116th) HOPE Act of 2020
78 cosponsors
H.R. 2623 (116th) Search and Rescue Dog Protection Act
28 cosponsors
H.R. 3938 (116th) Gold Star Children Act
15 cosponsors
H.R. 5394 (116th) Strengthening State and Local Cybersecurity Defenses Act
10 cosponsors
H.R. 1478 (117th) Vital STATS Act of 2021
2 cosponsors
H.R. 1606 (117th) End Forced Child Marriages Act
2 cosponsors
H.R. 7603 (116th) Improving Congressional Oversight of CFIUS Determinations Act
2 cosponsors

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

Elections Rep. Taylor has won

Rep. Taylor has won 2 U.S. House elections (2018–2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 10.0 to 12.2 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won2 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 10.0 points2018, TX-3

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 2 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Texas’s 3rd districtWinners, most recent three: Sam Johnson (R) 1992–2016 → Van Taylor (R) 2018–2020 → Keith Self (R) 2022–2024. 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 3rd district done while Rep. Taylor served?

2019 to 2021 in TX-3: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 1.2 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

TX-3: $117.7K in 2019 → $116.6K in 2021

TX-3 about the sameTexas down 2%U.S. about the same

Share of people below the poverty line

TX-3: 6.2% in 2019 → 7.2% in 2021

TX-3 about the sameTexas up 0.6 pointsU.S. up 0.4 points

Share of workers looking for a job

TX-3: 4.0% in 2019 → 5.2% in 2021

TX-3 up 1.2 pointsTexas up 1.8 pointsU.S. up 1.8 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 3rd district during Taylor’s time representing it (2019 to 2023). 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-3 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, 2019 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2019 to 2023.

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

117th 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	1	See the 1 →
With a committee report listed	0	None listed

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 117th 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.