Jake Ellzey has represented Texas's 6th District since 2021. He sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee, which controls how the government spends our money. That's a lot of responsibility. Here's how he's used it.
Here are 3 things to know.
1. He won't meet you face to face
A big part of a representative's job is to actually listen to the people he represents. Jake Ellzey makes that hard.
Instead of holding open, in-person town halls where anyone can show up and ask a tough question, Ellzey runs his constituent meetings as telephone town halls. You call in, the staff screens it, and the congressman stays safely on the other end of a phone line. There's no room full of neighbors, no follow-up questions, no being looked in the eye.
It's a lot easier to dodge hard questions when nobody can see your face. When a politician avoids meeting voters in person, it usually means he knows they're not happy with him.
2. He votes against the environment every single time
We all want clean air and clean water for our kids. Jake Ellzey keeps voting the other way.
He has a 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters for 2025, and just a 5% lifetime score. That's not a few bad votes here and there — that's voting against clean air and water protections nearly every chance he gets. He's lined up behind rolling back environmental rules so big companies can pollute more and pay less. We're the ones who end up breathing it.
3. He wants to ban abortion nationwide
America is supposed to be the land of freedom — including the freedom to make your own private medical decisions with your family and your doctor.
Jake Ellzey doesn't see it that way. In January 2025, he signed on as an original cosponsor of the "Life at Conception Act" (H.R. 722). That bill would give full legal "personhood" to a fertilized egg "at the moment of fertilization." In plain terms, it's a path to banning abortion across the entire country — with no exceptions — and it could even put popular fertility treatments like IVF at risk.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Ellzey thinks the government should make that decision for you.
The bottom line
That's 3 things to know about Jake Ellzey. He hides from voters behind a phone line, he votes against the environment every time, and he wants Washington in charge of your most personal decisions.
We deserve a representative who actually works for us. We deserve better.
