Former U.S. Representative

John Abney CulbersonNo longer serving

District TX‑7 Party Republican In office 2001–2019

83 bills introduced

Across 9 Congresses, most in the 114th at 16. In the 115th, 8 — 10 fewer than the median representative, who filed 18. Of the 83, 1 became law. Volume is not influence: the great majority of bills, from every member, never get a vote.

Bills introduced, against the typical representative 107th to 115th

median for the chamber, that Congress

Cosponsored

1,811

Signed on to someone else's bill

Recorded votes

10,676

Roll calls tied to a bill, nominations aside

Their work

Drawn from the 83 bills this member introduced: the subjects the record assigns them, and the members who most often sign on.

Subjects

Bills carry several subjects each, so these add up to more than 83.

Most frequent cosponsors

Pete Sessions R-TX 12
Rob Bishop R-UT 12
Lamar Smith R-TX 12
Gene Green D-TX 10
Michael T. McCaul R-TX 10
Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD 10

Times each has cosponsored a bill this member introduced.

Biography

A Representative from Texas. Born in Houston, Harris County, Tex. , August 24, 1956. Graduated from Lamar High School, Houston, Tex. , 1975. B. A. , Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. , 1981. J. D. , South Texas College of Law, Houston, Tex. Member of the Texas state house of representatives, 1986-2001. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2001-January 3, 2019). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress in 2018.

Votes

How this member answered on every recorded vote tied to a bill, newest first — including the procedural motions on it, such as cloture. Votes on nominations are not listed, because they are not attached to a bill.

Bill	Question	Voted	Date
S 3628	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
HCONRES 148	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
HR 7388	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
S 3456	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
HR 6287	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
S 1934	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
S 512	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018
S 3247	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Dec 21, 2018

Bill	Title	Status	Latest action
HR 6672	Republic of Texas Legation Memorial Act	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.	Aug 31, 2018
HR 5952	Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 544.	May 24, 2018
HR 5755	TOOLS to Rehabilitate Communities Act of 2018	Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.	May 10, 2018
HR 4930	Disaster Assistance Rental Fairness Act	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.	Feb 6, 2018
HR 4477	Fix NICS Act of 2017	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 322.	Dec 5, 2017
HR 3267	Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 164.	Jul 17, 2017
HR 650	MANIFEST for Human Spaceflight Act of 2017	Referred to the Subcommittee on Space.	Apr 25, 2017
HR 546	No Resettlement Without Consent Act	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.	Feb 8, 2017

Cosponsored bills

Bills introduced by others that this member signed on to.

Search these bills

Congress

Bill	Title	Status	Signed on
HR 1740	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1502 East Kiest Boulevard in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr. Post Office Building".	Became Public Law No: 108-56.	Apr 10, 2003
HJRES 50	Proposing a tax limitation amendment to the Constitution of the United States.	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.	Apr 10, 2003
HJRES 46	Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States restoring religious freedom.	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.	Apr 9, 2003
HR 1612	To make permanent the tax benefits enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.	Apr 3, 2003
HR 767	Homeland Investment Act of 2003	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.	Mar 27, 2003
HR 525	To authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to the seven members of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in recognition of their outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.	Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.	Mar 25, 2003
HR 1072	To prohibit post-conflict assistance for Iraq from being expended with any French firm.	Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.	Mar 20, 2003
HR 1305	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.	Mar 18, 2003

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Party, state and chamber are those of this member's most recent term. Bills and cosponsorships are held from the 107th Congress onwards and recorded votes from the 101st, so a member who served before those points will show fewer than they filed, or none. Committee seats are held for the current Congress only, which is why they are shown for sitting members and left out for everyone else rather than reported as zero. Vote counts cover roll calls tied to a bill; the chambers also vote on procedure and nominations, which are not listed here. Office, telephone and website are not shown for a member who has left, because the ones on file were theirs while serving. Records come from Congress.gov and the Biographical Directory of Congress.