Vicente is committed to standing for policies that protect rights, expand opportunity, and ensure women across South Texas are treated with dignity, fairness, and respect.
Stand for policies that protect women's rights, expand opportunity, and preserve access to essential healthcare services.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The campaign issues page says Gonzalez would support equal pay for equal work, paid family and maternity leave, increased funding for critical health care and family planning services for women, and stronger access to health care, Medicaid, and lower prescription drug prices.
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The House roll call for H.R. 8296 shows the Women's Health Protection Act passed the House on July 15, 2022, with Vicente Gonzalez recorded as voting Nay on the roll call page.
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The House roll call for the motion to recommit on H.R. 8296 shows the Women's Health Protection Act failed on that procedural vote, and Vicente Gonzalez is listed as voting Nay.
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Congress.gov records H.R. 3464, the Affordable Homeownership Access Act, as being introduced by Mr. Barr for himself, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, and Mr. Cuellar, and sent to the Committee on Financial Services.
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Gonzalez said he voted for H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which capped out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 per month and aimed to lower the burden of life-saving drugs for South Texas families.
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The office said Gonzalez was supporting a discharge petition to force a House vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits for three more years, describing the effort as needed to protect coverage for nearly 130,000 South Texans.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.5145, the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, as introduced on September 4, 2025 and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The cosponsor table lists Rep. Gonzalez, Vicente [D-TX-34] as a cosponsor on October 10, 2025. The bill remained at the introduced stage in the official tracker.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.12, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2025, as a health bill introduced on June 24, 2025 and referred to the Energy and Commerce and Judiciary committees. The official tracker shows the bill at the introduced stage with 207 Democratic cosponsors; the cosponsor list includes 10 Texas cosponsors but does not list Vicente Gonzalez among them as of the page's latest listed cosponsor action on January 27, 2026.
Assessments
The promise was broad and Gonzalez has taken concrete federal actions aligned with parts of it, including support for insulin affordability, ACA tax-credit extension efforts, and homeownership-access legislation. However, the record does not show full delivery of the promised outcome, and his votes against the 2022 Women's Health Protection Act substantially weaken the women's-rights portion. Because he materially advanced some related policies but did not deliver the full package, partial credit is the best fit.
Gonzalez took concrete actions aligned with parts of the promise, including voting for insulin affordability legislation and supporting measures tied to health care access and economic opportunity. However, the record does not show full delivery across the whole pledge, and his 2022 Nay vote on the Women's Health Protection Act cuts against the women's-rights portion of the claim. Because the promise was broad and partly about standing for policies, these actions support partial fulfillment, but not full delivery.