Troy E. Nehls
Republican · TX-22 · U.S. House
Bio
Troy Edwin Nehls is an American politician and former law-enforcement officer serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district since 2021. Before his election to Congress, he served as the sheriff for Fort Bend County, Texas from 2013 to 2021. Nehls is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.6 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 277 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 58
- Fulshear, TX · 346-762-6600
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
- $152k – $455k
- Liabilities
- $125k – $315k
- Net worth
- −$163k – $330k
- Since 2019
- −$146k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 12 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
Troy E. Nehls'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
Troy E. Nehls (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Nehlssits 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
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Committees
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 42 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Nehls'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
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls Goes Full Marie Antoinette About Affordability, And Yeah, It's BadOne person said the Texas Republican's comments "might be the most tone-deaf thing I've heard a politician say."
HuffPost · July 1, 2026
GOP Congressman Explains Economy To Peasants: I Deserve 'Lobster Tails,' You Don'tTexas GOP Rep. Troy Nehls claims he works harder than you do if you can't afford lobster and ribeye steaks, even though Congress averages about 135 to 150 legislative working days per year. Lawmakers typically work Tuesday through Thursday in Washington, D.C.…
Crooksandliars.com · July 1, 2026
Republican Suggests Americans Who Can’t Afford Steak and Lobster for July 4th ‘Don’t Work as Hard as I Do’Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, a leading defender of President Donald Trump, didn't seem too concerned when asked on Tuesday about Americans' struggles to pay for food on the Fourth of July, saying they may just not work as hard as he does.As Nehls (R-Texas) pre…
Common Dreams · July 1, 2026
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