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U.S. Representative · Texas 15th District
Monica De La Cruz
RepublicanDistrict R+7119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score21#401 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Monica De La Cruz’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1415 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4315
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 5 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1266, H.R. 1993, H.R. 2004, H.R. 3682, H.R. 4423.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.471 (party median +0.530; rank 87 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 87 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 3.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 20th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign AgricultureVice Chair
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- House Committee on Financial ServicesMajority · 23rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and InsuranceVice Chairwoman
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Cruz← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.471 is 0.06 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress87House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1834To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 69
| Middle |
| H.R. 7008 |