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Sheila Jackson Lee

Former

Democrat · TX-18 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.71
Healthcare
D+0.72
Immigration & Border
D+0.73
Guns
D+0.82
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.81
Environment & Energy
D+0.80
Crime & Policing
D+0.53
Defense & Veterans
D+0.15
Economy & Labor
D+0.57
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.18
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.92
Education
D+0.65
Government & Democracy
D+0.87
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+1.00

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

Sheila Jackson Lee'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

Sheila Jackson Lee (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Lee'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

NAY
Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023
2024-05-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
NAY
Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies.
2024-05-01 · Passed · Immigration & Border
YEA
Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023
2024-05-01 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social
NAY
Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023
2024-05-01 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor
YEA
Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023
2024-05-01 · Passed · Civil Rights & Social
NAY
Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies.
2024-05-01 · Passed · Immigration & Border
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 615) to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle on certain Federal land or water under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2925) to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to provide for security of tenure for use of mining claims for ancillary activities, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3195) to rescind Public Land Order 7917, to reinstate mineral leases and permits in the Superior National Forest, to ensure timely review of Mine Plans of Operations, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 764) to require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3397) to require the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to conservation and landscape health; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6285) to ratify and approve all authorizations, permits, verifications, extensions, biological opinions, incidental take statements, and any other approvals or orders issued pursuant to Federal law necessary for the establishment and administration of the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6090) to provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities, and for other purposes.
2024-04-30 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Carbon Sequestration Collaboration Act
2024-04-30 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Trust the Science Act
2024-04-30 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Superior National Forest Restoration Act
2024-04-30 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act
2024-04-20 · Failed · Immigration & Border
YEA
Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
2024-04-20 · Passed · Defense & Veterans, Foreign Policy & Trade, Taxes & Fiscal

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