Michael T. McCaul
Republican · TX-10 · U.S. House
TX-10 — U.S. House
Safe R 98%Michael T. McCaul is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Caitlin Rourk vs. Chris Gober. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Michael Thomas McCaul Sr. is an American politician, attorney, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas's 10th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the House Committee on Homeland Security during the 113th, 114th, and 115th Congresses. His district includes both Austin to Houston.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 21.7 years
- First took office
- 2005 (11 terms)
- Seniority
- 50 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 64
- College Station, TX · 979-431-6480
- Austin, TX · 512-770-8929
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
Michael T. McCaul'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
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Caucuses & committees
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Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
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