Rep. Dan Crenshaw
Representative for Texas’s 2nd District
pronounced dan // KREN-shaw
![Photo of Rep. Dan Crenshaw [R-TX2]](/static/legislator-photos/412820-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Crenshaw was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Crenshaw joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.)
In 2023, Trump associates pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates were also charged with submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona) and Trump himself faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, coordinating the fraudulent slates of electors, and inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Earmarks
Crenshaw proposed $45 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $12 million to Montgomery County for “Ford Road Improvement Project”
- $8 million to Harris County Flood Control District for “Taylor Gully Channel Conveyance Improvements Project”
- $8 million to Harris County Flood Control District for “Channel Conveyance Improvements along Goose Creek and Stormwater Detention Project”
View all requests and justifications on Crenshaw’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Crenshaw is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Crenshaw has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 17, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Dan Crenshaw sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Crenshaw sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (26%) Immigration (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) International Affairs (12%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Energy (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%) Transportation and Public Works (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Crenshaw recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8251: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to streamline regulatory oversight …
- H.J.Res. 123: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, …
- H.R. 7626: Affordable Air Conditioning Act
- H.R. 6849: Cancelling Climate Crusaders Act
- H.R. 6848: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher …
- H.R. 4516: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the inclusion of …
- H.R. 4242: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner …
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to May 2024, Crenshaw missed 112 of 2,894 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
