Former member of Congress · last served 119th Congress
Sylvester Turner
Sylvester Turner was a Democratic U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2025, who voted with most Democrats on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes.
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 Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 42) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5…Mar 4, 2025 · Passed
- NayOn Ordering the Previous Question — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 42) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5…Mar 4, 2025 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025Mar 3, 2025 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing ActMar 3, 2025 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…Feb 27, 2025 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 1034 DHS Cybersecurity On-the-Job Training Program ActNov 20, 2025 · ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Magaziner asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1034, a bill originally…
- H.R. 1510 Due Process Continuity of Care ActSep 8, 2025 · ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Ms. Dexter asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1510, a bill originally…
Elections Rep. Turner has won
Rep. Turner has won 1 U.S. House election (2024–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 38.9 to 38.9 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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 2 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 2 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 2 | See the 2 → |
| 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 119th 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.