Henry Cuellar
Democrat · TX-28 · U.S. House
Bio
Enrique Roberto "Henry" Cuellar is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 28th congressional district since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and his district spans from the Rio Grande toward the suburbs of San Antonio. Cuellar served in the Texas House of Representatives for 14 years, from 1987 to 2001, and briefly served as the Texas secretary of state in 2001, making him, as of 2025, the most recent Democrat to have held a statewide office in Texas.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.6 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 47 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 70
- Laredo, TX · 956-725-0639
- San Antonio, TX · 210-271-2851
- Rio Grande City, TX · 956-487-5603
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $777k – $1.7M
- Liabilities
- $300k – $700k
- Net worth
- $77k – $1.4M
- Since 2019
- +$594k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 15 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Henry Cuellar's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Henry Cuellar (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cuellarsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Blue Dog Coalitionleft · 10 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cuellar's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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The New Republic · August 5, 2026- House approves long-awaited stock trading ‘ban’ — here’s who the largest traders are (ony 4.51 years left)
WASHINGTON — The House passed a sweeping set of restrictions on stock trades by lawmakers and their spouses that was paired with a voter ID provision that scared off many Democrats. The “Stop Insider Trading Act” cleared the House 232 to 198, with the full su…
Freerepublic.com · July 23, 2026 
13 Dems Help House GOP Pass Stock Trading Ban That Includes Trump Attack on VotersThe US House of Representatives on Wednesday held a series of key votes, including one in which over a dozen Democrats helped Republicans pass a purported congressional stock trading ban, even though the GOP tacked on a voter suppression provision demanded by…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2026
Dem Rep Henry Cuellar rejects DSA agenda, says socialists are trying to 'use' Democratic PartyTexas Rep. Henry Cuellar warns Democrats that Democratic socialists are using the party as a "vehicle" to later launch their own radical platform nationwide.
Fox News · July 18, 2026
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