Here are some of Dan Crenshaw’s top victories as your representative for TX-02

  • Million secured for flood mitigation efforts: You have secured $98M in Community Project Funding, mainly for flood mitigation projects, but also emergency services.
    • FY26: $19M
    • FY24: $26.4M
    • FY23: $26.1M
    • FY22: $26.5M
  • Saving Families from Excessive Taxation: Supported President Trump by extending the tax cuts for Americans started with Kevin Brady’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017). Helped passed the Working Families Tax Cuts Act (2025) that keeps middle class families from paying up to 22% more in taxes.
    • Income Tax: prevented a 3-5% tax hike across ALL income brackets.
    • Family Items:
      • Trump Savings Accounts: children born 2025 – 2028 will receive $1,000 from the government to jumpstart an IRA. 
      • Made permanent the doubled child tax credit ($2,000) for families earning up to $400,000. 
      • Made permanent the doubled standard deduction, greatly simplifying tax season and reducing taxable income for 90% of filers. 
    • Small Business Items:
      • 100% Bonus Depreciation extended: businesses can now fully write off an asset the year of purchase. 
      • Qualified Business Income/199A permanently extended. Allows small business owners to deduct 20% of their business income. 
      • Research and development: allows 100% write-off of R&D for businesses. Particularly important for biotech, software, AI, and other pre-profit enterprises. 
  • Medicaid Work Requirements: In early 2025 joined Senator John Kennedy in introducing the Jobs and Opportunities for Medicaid Act to require able bodied working age Medicaid recipients to work, take job training or volunteer for 20-hours a week. The language was included in the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.
    • Begins January 1st, 2027. Projected savings: $109 billion over 10 years. 
  • Texas Border Security Reimbursement: In 2021 proposed the State Border Security Reimbursement Act, starting the conversation and effort on reimbursing Texas for what the state spent to help secure the border. Other members use it as a model, but the effort you started became law in the One Big Beautiful Bill/Working Families Tax Cut Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025.
    • The One Big Beautiful Bill provided $12B to reimburse states and Texas has applied to receive $11.5B in reimbursement. Treasury has dispersed the money, but awaiting DHS awarding the funds. You signed on to a letter requesting that Texas be prioritized in fund disbursement in November 2025; you are currently leading a follow-up letter. 
  • Leading the Fight Against the Cartels: The designated House Republican leader on the cartels, as designated by Speaker McCarthy and Johnson. Developed a legisaltive package to support President Trump’s efforts, and codify his initiatives, to destroy the Mexican drug cartels. 

BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE:

  • H.R.498 (2025), Do No Harm in Medicaid Act: Prohibits using Medicaid funds for gender transition procedures for minors.
    • Details: prohibits Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from paying for puberty blockers or gender transition surgery for children under 18 – unless for a medically recognized disease, like early onset puberty. 
  • H.R.3836 (2024), Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act: 
    • This bill clarifies that state Medicaid programs can indeed provide primary care by contracting with Direct Primary Care (DPC) providers. It mandates that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issue guidance on program implementation and a report on existing Medicaid DPC offerings.
      • You re-introduced this bill in 2025, the 119th Congress. 
  • H.R.5804 (2020), DHS Blue Campaign Enhancement Act: Provided additional resources to DHS’s anti-human trafficking efforts.
    • Details: Required DHS to provide easily accessible web-based training to law enforcement on how to identify and prevent human trafficking. 
  • H.R.4753 (2019), Drone Origin Security Enhancement Act: Prohibited DHS from using Chinese-made drones for official duties over concerns of data security.
    • Details: Followed DOD in keeping DHS from using drones from “strategic competitors” (China) over concern that data collected could be shared with China because of software “backdoors” that could provide information on critical infrastructure, the border, or other sensitive information with Chinese central data processing. 
  • H.R.3413 (2019), DHS Acquisition Reform Act of 2019: Made changes to streamline DHS acquisition processes.
    • Details: This is technical and nerdy, but assigned acquisition authorities to DHS leaders, making the Under Secretary for Management the Chief Acquisition Officer and assigning acquisition responsibilities to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer.
      • This is a good-governance bill, making DHS acquisition better and more not as clunky. 
  • H.R.2609 (2019), DHS Acquisition Review Board Act of 2019: Created a board at DHS to improve and review acquisitions. 

AMENDMENTS PASSED: 

  • FY2026 Appropriations: $19M total secured in CPFs
    • $4.2 million for signal tower replacements in Montgomery County
    • $5 million for the Bear Branch Dam 
    • $5 million for Sawdust Bridge Elevation Project 
    • $750,000 for Newport Municipal Utility District Sewer Rehab
    • $1,000,0000 for Woodridge Stormwater Detention Basin 
    • $1,000,000 for Woodbranch Village Wastewater Project
    • $1,000,000 for Bentwood Drainage Channel Improvement
    • $1,000,000 for Kuykendahl Stormwater Detention Basin 
  • FY2024 Appropriations: $26.4M 
    • $7M for Ford Road Improvement Project
    • $3M for Tamina Economic Development Planning Project
    • $3.6M for Highland / Huffman / Crosby Roadway & Drainage Improvements
    • $1.12M for FM 1488 Street Rehab & Drainage Improvements
    • $1.65M for Active Shooter Defense Training Facility
    • $700,000 for Montgomery County Bridge Project
    • $1.825M for San Jacinto River Wastewater System Replacement
    • $4M for Kingwood Diversion Channel – Walnut Lane Bridge
    • $1.75M for Taylor Gully Channel Conveyance Improvements
    • $1.75M for Goose Creek Channel Conveyance Improvements
  • FY2023 Appropriations: $26.1M
    • $7.5M for Lake Houston Dam Spillway Project
    • $5M for Woodridge Stormwater Detention Basin 
    • $5M for Cedar Bayou Stormwater Detention Basin
    • $2M for HCMUD 468 Stormwater Detention Basin
    • $3.6M for Bear Branch Dam Modification
    • $3M for Bentwood Drainage Channel Project
  • FY2022 Appropriations: $26.5M
    • $1.673M for Huffman (Forest Manor) Drainage Improvement
    • $1.6M for Kingwood Diversion Channel
    • $3.394M for W140 Detention Basin Improvements
    • $1.6M for Taylor Gully Channel Conveyance Improvements
    • $9.95M for TC Jester Stormwater Detention Basin
    • $8.25M for Westador Stormwater Detention Basin
  • Cartels: 
    • FISA amendment to collect on drug traffickers, 
    • NDAA (FY2025) amendment to prioritize small border security law enforcement in receiving defense excess articles transfers
    • NDAA (FY2025) report on DOD plans to combat cartels. 
  • Psychedelics: 
    • FY23 Defense Appropriations Amendment for Defense Health Agency trials 
    • NDAA Amendment 
  • NDAA (FY20): Amendment for Homeschoolers to join JROTC programs. 

KEY BILLS INTRODUCED: 

  • H.R.1609 (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025) Anti-Border Corruption Improvement Act: Allows CBP to waive the polygraph requirement for hiring officers and agents who were law enforcement or military veterans who held a security clearance.  
  • H.R.6519 (2020, 2022) Holding the Chinese Communist Party Accountable for Infecting Americans Act of 2020: Waived China’s sovereign immunity, allowing Americans to sue the CCP for physical and economic harm caused by COVID.
  • H.R.1556 (2021) End Lockdowns Now Act: Bans federal lockdowns and says that any state or local government taking COVID relief money must show a clear plan to reopen schools, businesses, and churches, with input from the public. If they don’t follow through, the federal government can take the money back—and no president can impose a nationwide lockdown or travel ban.
  • H.R.1961 (2021, 2023, 2025) ATF Accountability Act: Allows the gun insdustry to appeal ATF rules and decisions. 
  • H.R.5417 (2021, 2023, 2025) Preventing Unjust Red Flag Laws Act: prohibits federal funds from going to implementing or enforcing red flag laws. 
  • HR5418 (2021): bans federal agencies from requiring proof of a COVID vaccine to travel (whether by plane, train, ship) or do business across state lines. It blocks HHS from using vaccination mandates as a condition for interstate travel or economic activity.
  • H.R.8355 (2022) Closing Loopholes and Ending Asylum Abuse Act: tightens asylum rules by requiring most applicants to seek asylum outside the U.S., rather than after entering illegally. It also limits asylum to people fleeing persecution by a government or government-backed actors, and requires migrants who pass through another safe country with a U.S. asylum office to apply there instead of at the border.
  • H.R.8356 (2022) Flores Settlement Update and Establishment Act: strengthens protections against child trafficking by tightening rules for migrant minors and making sure adults claiming to be family actually are—using DNA testing within 72 hours. It updates existing rules so children aren’t exploited or falsely claimed by traffickers while in federal custody.
  • H.R.9312 (2022, 2023) Declaring War on the Cartels Act: cracks down hard on Mexican drug cartels by adding long prison sentences for repeat offenders, cutting them off from U.S. banks, and seizing their assets. It also punishes banks and foreign governments that do business with cartels, bans cartel members and their families from entering the U.S., and authorizes sanctions to shut the networks down.
  • H.R.2548 (2023, 2025) Public Safety Officer Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act: requires the CDC to gather and share clear, practical guidance on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent concussions and traumatic brain injuries in public safety officers so injuries are recognized and treated properly.
  • H.R.6566 (2025) Recycling Technology Innovation Act: helps recycle more plastic by ensuring advanced recycling technologies are regulated correctly as manufacturing, not waste disposal—so industry can turn plastic waste into new products again and again under the right rules, boosting private investment and innovation without weakening environmental protections. 
  • H.R. 4880 (2025) Primacy Certainty Act of 2025

BLUF: This bill mandaes EPA to stop slow-walking state approval for carbon caputre (Class VI) wells by setting firm deadlines, transparency requirements, and an automatic approval backstop—giving states regulatory certainty and speeding carbon capture projects without mandating carbon capture technology. If industry wants it, permitting delays should not stand in their way.