Support clarifying and expanding federal prohibitions on coercion and enticement to include patronizing or soliciting a minor for a commercial sex act.

Wesley Hunt · Texas · Republican

policy impact 0.64 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 77%

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Occurrences

H.R. 9071 was introduced May 29, 2026 and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary; the bill would clarify and expand title 18 prohibitions on coercion and enticement to include patronizing or soliciting a minor for a commercial sex act, with Wesley Hunt listed as a cosponsor.

Wesley Hunt is listed as a cosponsor of H.R. 9071, a bill to expand federal coercion and enticement prohibitions involving minors and commercial sex acts.

H.R.9071 - To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify and expand the prohibition on coercion and enticement to include patronizing or soliciting a minor for a commercial sex act, and for other purposes
primary · other · model gpt-5.5

Evidence

Congress.gov's member activity page for Wesley Hunt lists 27 sponsored bills, 297 cosponsored bills, 10 Congressional Record remarks, and 1,673 House roll call votes; on-page searches for trafficking, coercion, enticement, and commercial-sex terms returned no matches.

No direct Congress.gov record in the current member activity page ties Hunt to this specific trafficking-law expansion.

unresolved same_term

Wesley Hunt | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 78%

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The House Clerk member profile confirms Wesley Hunt's current service in Texas's 38th District and shows his committee assignments on Natural Resources and Judiciary, but the profile does not surface any trafficking-specific recent-vote evidence.

Current official House profile shows active service but no direct evidence for this promise area.

unresolved same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 71%

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Assessments

unresolved unknown

The available federal-record evidence does not show that Wesley Hunt sponsored, cosponsored, voted for, or otherwise materially advanced a specific bill to clarify and expand federal coercion/enticement prohibitions to cover patronizing or soliciting a minor for a commercial sex act. The cited Congress.gov and House Clerk materials confirm his service but do not tie him to this precise policy outcome. Because the record here is mainly an absence of direct evidence rather than proof that he opposed or failed after a documented serious attempt, the claim is best judged unresolved rather than delivered, partial, or never.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 69%