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Rep. Troy Nehls

Representative for Texas’s 22nd District

pronounced troy // nelz

Nehls is the representative for Texas’s 22nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Nehls’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 56 years old.

Photo of Rep. Troy Nehls [R-TX22]
Elections must be decided by counting votes

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 through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.

Nehls was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Nehls voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors 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 and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) 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.

Alleged misconduct & resolution

In late 2023, the Office of Congressional Ethics found that Rep. Nehls may have made illegitmate campaing disbursements and expenditures and omitted required information on financial disclosure forms. It also found that Nehls and his staff and associates refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Dec. 1, 2023 Office of Congressional Ethics found probable cause to believe that Rep. Nehls may have converted campaign committee funds to personal use and failed to disclose required nformation in his annual House financial disclosure statements and recommended that the House Committee on Ethics issue subpoenas.
May. 10, 2024 House Committee on Ethics extended the matter

Earmarks

Nehls proposed $9 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $3.6 million to Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) for “US 59 right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation for improvements on US 59 on the north side of El Campo, Texas.”
  • $3.0 million to T.W. Davis Family YMCA for “T.W. Davis Family YMCA Community Capital Redevelopment Project”
  • $1.4 million to City of Sugar Land for “Sugar Land Storm Water & Drainage Improvements Project”

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

Nehls 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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Troy Nehls sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Nehls was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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Does 1 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

Nehls sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (29%) Transportation and Public Works (27%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) International Affairs (6%) Environmental Protection (4%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Nehls recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Nehls voted Yea

Nehls voted Nay

Nehls voted Nay

Passed 325/93 on Sep 29, 2022.

Nehls voted Nay

Passed 328/88 on Sep 13, 2022.

Nehls voted Nay

Nehls voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Nov 2024, Nehls missed 141 of 2,200 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is much worse than the median of 2.2% 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.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: