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Brian Babin

U.S. House · TX-36 · Republicans · since 2025

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Biography

Overview

Brian Babin is a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 36th congressional district, serving since 2015. A retired dentist and U.S. Air Force captain, Babin has held numerous local and state positions in Texas before his election to Congress. He represents a heavily Republican district in southeastern Houston and surrounding areas.

Career

Babin has championed space exploration initiatives and NASA reauthorization bills. He has introduced legislation on weather forecasting modernization (NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act) and environmental monitoring (Fog Observations and Geographic Forecasting Act). He successfully advocated against refugee expansion following the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. In 2025, he introduced a bill to eliminate automatic birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. He has also introduced bills restricting transgender bathroom use and opposing the Affordable Care Act. After the 2020 presidential election, he joined efforts to overturn the result and supported impeachment resolutions against President Biden and officials in his administration.

Prior political experience

Babin first ran for Congress in 1996 as the Republican nominee for Texas's 2nd congressional district, losing to Democrat Jim Turner. He ran again in 1998 for the same seat and lost again. In 2014, he ran to succeed retiring Republican Steve Stockman in Texas's 36th congressional district, winning a competitive Republican primary with 33.36% of the vote and advancing to a runoff, which he won with 57.84% of the vote. He defeated Democrat Michael Cole in the general election with 75.97% of the vote. In 2016, Babin was unopposed in the Republican primary and ran without a major party Democratic challenger. Election data from 2020 shows he received 75,277 votes (70.7%) in his district.

Biographical material adapted from the Wikipedia article (retrieved April 29, 2026), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ideology

Liberal–Conservative (DW-NOMINATE dim 1)

Liberal
Conservative
119th Congress+0.708

Secondary axis (DW-NOMINATE dim 2)(?)

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+0.119
Source: Voteview DW-NOMINATE · 340 scored votes

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Officeholding history

TermSeatTerm datesTerminationPredecessorSuccessor
6thU.S. House TX-362025–presentIn progressBrian Babin—
5thU.S. House TX-362023–2025Term endedBrian BabinBrian Babin
4thU.S. House TX-362021–2023Term endedBrian BabinBrian Babin
3rdU.S. House TX-362019–2021Term endedBrian BabinBrian Babin
2ndU.S. House TX-362017–2019Term endedBrian BabinBrian Babin
1stU.S. House TX-362015–2017Term ended—Brian Babin

Committee assignments

Current term legislation

Bills sponsored this term10

Bills cosponsored this term10

Elections

YearSeatResultVote shareField
2024U.S. House TX-36Won37.98%