Henry Cuellar
Democrat · TX-28 · U.S. House
TX-28 — U.S. House
Lean D 69%Henry Cuellar is on the ballot. Henry Cuellar vs. Tano Tijerina. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
D +2 points of win probability since July.
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 2026, the most recent Democrat to have held a statewide office in Texas.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.7 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 47 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- 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
Trump calls Democrat he pardoned a 'loser' for not switching partiesPresident Donald Trump slammed Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas for not becoming a Republican after receiving a presidential pardon.
Fox News · October 8, 2026
Trump Straight Up Admits He Pardons People to Get Something in ReturnWhen Donald Trump gives, he expects something in return.The revelation came amid an attack Wednesday night against Texas Representative Henry Cuellar, who Trump apparently believed should have become a Republican after he received a presidential pardon last y…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026
Trump fact-checked to his face by guest during rally: 'I don't think so, Mr. President'Former MLB superstar Roger Clemens fact-checked President Donald Trump during his Texas rally Wednesday night. Trump traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to stump for Republicans like Tano Tijerina in his race against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whom Trump attacked…
Raw Story · October 8, 2026
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