Rep. Jake Ellzey
Representative for Texas’s 6th District
pronounced jayk // EL-zee
Earmarks
Ellzey proposed $10,000 in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $10,000 to City of Richland, Texas for “Byrne Justice Grant, Richland TX”
View all requests and justifications on Ellzey’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
Committee Membership
Jake Ellzey sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Ellzey was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 6626 (117th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 Melear Drive in Arlington, Texas, as the “Ron Wright Post Office Building”.
- H.R. 5516 (117th): VITAL Assessment Act
Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Ellzey sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (100%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Ellzey recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6591: Encouraging Success Act
- H.R. 6378: To permit the remains of any Medal of Honor recipient to lie in …
- H.Res. 747: Supporting the goals and ideals of Red Ribbon Week during the period of …
- H.R. 8408 (117th): Federal Mask Mandate Limitations Act
- H.R. 6626 (117th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
- H.R. 6365 (117th): To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed rail project …
- H.R. 5516 (117th): VITAL Assessment Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Aug 2021 to Apr 2024, Ellzey missed 11 of 1,620 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
