Marc Veasey

Democrat Representative of Texas's 33rd district

  • Representative

    Texas, district 33

    January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025

202-225-9897

@RepVeasey

veasey.house.gov

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6

Congresses Served

6

House Terms

January 3, 1971 (54 years old)

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  • Served as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2013
  • Represented Texas’s 33rd congressional district
  • Served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013
  • Held the position of chair pro tempore of the House Democratic Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives
  • Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended Arlington Heights High School
  • Graduated from Texas Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications
  • Worked as a substitute teacher, sportswriter, and for an advertising agency before entering politics
  • Volunteered and then worked for U.S. Representative Martin Frost for five years
  • Authored legislation to honor Tim Cole, a wrongfully convicted student, and to enforce the James Byrd Jr. hate crime bill
  • Served on several committees in the Texas House, including the Elections Committee and the Environmental Regulation Committee
  • First elected to Congress in 2012, becoming the first African-American U.S. Representative from Tarrant County
  • Has been re-elected multiple times, with his campaign spending reaching $1.5 million in 2016
  • Voted with President Joe Biden’s stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress
  • Supports a woman’s right to abortion and voted for the Violence Against Women Act
  • Opposed the Sierra Club on offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico but defended Texas oil interests
  • Serves on the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House
  • Member of several caucuses, including the Congressional Black Caucus and the LGBT Equality Caucus
  • Married to Tonya Jackson, with whom he has a son; his uncle was a television reporter and worked for a former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives