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U.S. Representative · Texas 27th District
Michael Cloud
RepublicanDistrict R+14119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score59#105 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Michael Cloud’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office304 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4327
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 · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.691 (party median +0.530; rank 187 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 3 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 18 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 58, H.R. 22, H.R. 23, H.R. 38, H.R. 425 and 13 more.
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
- 8.3 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AppropriationsMajority · 21st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related AgenciesVice Chair
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs
- Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Cloud← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.691 is 0.16 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House 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. 5103Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 72
| Swing |
| H.R. 3632Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025 |