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Brian Babin

U.S. Representative · TX-36 · Republican · Chair, Science, Space, and Technology

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 5, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.71· expected 1.90

Below expectations

Rank 198 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 24 majority-party committee chairs

How far Babin’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 16
  2. Action in committee 7
  3. Action beyond committee 7
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

16 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 15 substantive, 1 commemorative. Compare the House

How Babin’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Babin.

Babin in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 14 missed of 674

Voted on 660 of 674 roll calls; missed 14. Lower than 54% of House members.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 49 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 464 votes that split the parties. Higher than 71% of House members.

45%100%
11/ 100

Chamber median 12 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 55% of House members.

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+0.71

Republican middle 80%: 0.32 to 0.71

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 17 (median 26) · cosponsored 268 (median 294), 115 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the House. From congress.gov.

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