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. After the 2020 Presidential Election, President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated in a failed coup to have the election decided by themselves rather than by voters.
Crenshaw was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. 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 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 currently facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court, and a federal investigation which terminated because he won re-election alleged that Trump sought to ignore true vote counts, manufactured fraudulent slates of presidential electors, and used the January 6 riot to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election. Trump was impeached but not convicted in 2021 for incitement of insurrection related to the same events. (He was also impeached but not convicted of using the presidency to solicit the help of a foreign government to benefit his reelection in 2019, and he was convicted in state court in 2024 for 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.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2024 Report Card for Crenshaw.
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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan. 4, 2021 to March 31, 2025. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Rep. Dan Crenshaw [R-TX2, 2019-2026] sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Crenshaw sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (34%) Immigration (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) International Affairs (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Science, Technology, Communications (7%) Environmental Protection (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Crenshaw recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 262: Establishing the Select Committee to Defeat the Mexican Drug Cartels.
- H.R. 2107: To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the …
- H.R. 1162: Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act
- H.R. 1059: Jobs and Opportunities for Medicaid Act
- H.R. 927: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher …
- H.R. 607: ATF Accountability Act of 2025
- H.R. 497: Medicaid Third Party Liability Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Apr 2025, Crenshaw missed 180 of 3,281 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is much 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 absences, 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
