US House, District 36
About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton and Tyler counties, nearly all of Chambers County, part of north-west Jefferson County, part of south-east Harris County and part of north Brazoria County. The records below are votes and cosponsorships in Congress, listed in date order, each with its own source.
Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the
120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by
population — 84% of it was inside district 36 on the
119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 17 (15%) and district 14 (0.5%). So where a candidate below is badged as holding seat 36 today, that badge means the
seat number on this ballot — not all of the ground the seat now covers. Your own
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Rhonda HartDemocrat
100/100
support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100
thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 1 records scored
How this score is worked out
Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote
counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to
somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as
well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the
bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was
said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no
number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.
- 2026-10-07 questionnaire — Replied to a publication’s candidate survey saying she supports the federal legalization, rescheduling, medical marijuana and banking measures it put to her, and rejecting the description of marijuana as a gateway drug, counted as +2 at weight 2
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Questionnaire2026-10-07
Replied by email to outreach from The Marijuana Herald for its survey of candidates in all 435 U.S. House races, published 2026-10-07. The publication reports that she said she supports the marijuana reform measures set out in its outreach, which it describes as federal legalization, rescheduling, medical marijuana and marijuana banking reform, and that she said marijuana has for too long been treated as “some kind of terrible gateway drug”, adding that “it’s not”.
⚠️The source does not date the response. The article is a survey of candidates in all 435 U.S. House races, carries the standing note that it is updated as more responses are received, and gives no date for any individual reply. The date recorded here is the article’s own publication date, taken from its datePublished metadata (2026-10-07T13:16:45+00:00) — the first date on which the response is on the public record, not the date it was given.
The article describes her reply only as a recent email.
⚠️The list of measures is the publication’s summary of its own outreach questions, not her wording; only the words in quotation marks are printed as hers.
themarijuanaherald.com
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission
Commission candidate H4TX14111, filed as
“HART, RHONDA J”, principal committee C00924365
(RHONDA JEAN HART CAMPAIGN).
fec.gov
No amount is printed here, because every figure in the filing is zero.
Rhonda Hart has a principal campaign committee registered with the Commission, and the
Commission holds its report for the period ending 2026-03-31: that
report states no receipts, no disbursements and nothing on hand at the end of the period.
That is what the filing says. It is not a gap in our pipeline, and it is not a figure we
read and then withheld — a row of zeros would have read as a breakdown of something, so the
finding is written out in words instead. Money raised after
2026-03-31 is not reportable yet and would not appear here.
There is no industry breakdown below because there is nothing to group: with
no contribution in the report, nothing was matched to one of our own labels and nothing is
left unclassified. The breakdown returns on this card the moment the committee files a
report with money in it.
Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.
Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed
hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is
placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive.
For what Rhonda Hart has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this
page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one,
every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be
judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves
that score by a cent.