Joaquin Castro
Democrat · TX-20 · U.S. House
TX-20 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Joaquin Castro is on the ballot. Joaquin Castro vs. Edgardo Rafael Baez. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Joaquin Castro is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who has represented Texas's 20th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2013. The district includes just over half of his native San Antonio. He currently serves on the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 116 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 52
- San Antonio, TX · 210-348-8216
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
Joaquin Castro'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
Joaquin Castro (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Castrosits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
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Recent notable votes
Latest news
Rep. Castro: Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign Has 'Torn the Country Apart'On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “On the Line,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign “has really torn the country apart.” Castro said, “There’s a reason that Representative James Talarico is gaining in the pol…
Breitbart News · October 7, 2026- Joaquin Castro: 'Lawless' ICE Basically Torturing People
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is basically torturing people, like the Venezuelan man who was shot by an agent Sunday in Austin, Texas. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “A The post…
Breitbart News · September 23, 2026 
Austin Man Shot by ICE Facing Paralysis After Being Refused Medical CareDemocrats in Congress on Monday evening were demanding a full, independent investigation into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's shooting on Sunday of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, as it was reported that he had been held in an ICE detention center with a…
Common Dreams · September 22, 2026
Where the Hell Is the Oil Money Trump Stole From the People of Venezuela?At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Tr…
Common Dreams · September 18, 2026
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