Christian D. Menefee
Democrat · TX-18 · U.S. House
TX-18 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Christian D. Menefee is on the ballot. Christian Menefee vs. Ronald Whitfield. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Record of service
- In office
- 0.7 years
- First took office
- 2026 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 434 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 38
- Houston, TX · 281-891-4899
- Houston, TX · 713-227-7740
- Houston, TX · 713-655-0050
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.
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
Christian D. Menefee'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
Christian D. Menefee (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Menefeesits 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
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Menefee'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
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