Rep. Bell, Wesley

Democrat · Missouri-1 · House of Representatives

Wesley Jonell-Cleavon Bell is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, from 2019 to 2025.

Voting record

• Participation: shows up to vote 99% of the time.
• Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 16.0% of the time.
• Alignment with the district's political lean: 70.6%.
• Bills sponsored: 23; passed into law: 0.

Recent votes by Rep. Bell, Wesley

• Voted Yea on Study health career training grant outcomes — Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• Voted Yea on Tightens banking sanctions on Russia — CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
• Voted Yea on Increase Medicare and Medicaid payments to rural hospitals — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Voted Nay on Speaker reserves procedural placeholder for House — Secure the Border Act of 2023
• Voted Yea on Exempts active military pay from federal income tax — National Defense Authorization Act FY2024
• Voted Yea on Procedural placeholder reserved for Speaker — Lower Drug Costs Now Act
• Voted Yea on Increases airport passenger fees through 2030 — Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
• Voted Nay on Speaker reserves bill number for future legislation — Parents Bill of Rights Act
• Voted Yea on Designates Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group — Clean Energy for America Act
• Voted Yea on Eliminates funding for National Endowment for Humanities — Social Security Fairness Act
• Voted Nay on Require citizenship proof to register to vote — SAVE Act
• Voted Yea on Cuts taxes for Taiwan residents earning U.S. income — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States
• Voted Nay on Expands police chase authority in Washington DC — District of Columbia Policing Protection Act
• Voted Nay on House floor debate on four bills advances — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 18) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions"; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 28) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications"; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1526) to amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 22) to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
• Voted Nay on Extends deadline to prosecute pandemic jobless fraud — Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act

Other Missouri representatives

• Rep. Alford, Mark (Republican)
• Rep. Burlison, Eric (Republican)
• Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel (Democrat)
• Rep. Graves, Sam (Republican)
• Sen. Hawley, Josh (Republican)
• Rep. Onder, Robert F. (Republican)
• Sen. Schmitt, Eric (Republican)
• Rep. Smith, Jason (Republican)
• Rep. Wagner, Ann (Republican)

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