Rep. Kevin Brady
Former Representative for Texas’s 8th District
pronounced KEH-vin // BRAY-dee
Brady was the representative for Texas’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1997 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX8, 1997-2022]](https://www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/400046-200px.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.
Brady was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. Shortly after the election, Brady 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 faced related criminal charges in Georgia state court in 2022 until a replacement prosecutor dropped the charges in 2025 not because of the charges’ merits but because he “lacks the resources” to continue and other “difficult” logistics. Trump also faced a federal investigation, which was terminated only because he won re-election, which 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 Congress 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 2022 Report Card for Brady.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Brady is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 sponsored and cosponsored from Jan. 3, 2017 to Dec. 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Brady was the primary sponsor of 20 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 7014 (117th): To suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 4602 (116th): Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
- H.R. 4514 (116th): Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
- H.R. 4318 (115th): Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018
- H.R. 1 (115th): An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
- H.R. 3823 (115th): Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017
- H.R. 3178 (115th): Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017
Does 20 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
Brady sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Social Welfare (32%) Taxation (18%) Labor and Employment (18%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Brady recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1520 (117th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States …
- H.R. 9143 (117th): To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being …
- H.R. 8000 (117th): Chase COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2022
- H.R. 7014 (117th): To suspend normal trade relations treatment for the Russian Federation and the …
- H.R. 5834 (117th): Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2021
- H.R. 5206 (117th): To require the Internal Revenue Service to issue a report on the …
- H.R. 4509 (117th): Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services for Success Act
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1997 to Dec 2022, Brady missed 915 of 16,660 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills