Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 8th congressional district from 1997 to 2023.

[8] But the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Bush v. Vera that three of Texas's congressional districts were unconstitutional.

[15] In the November 4 general election, Brady was reelected with 124,897 votes (89.32%) to Democratic nominee Ken Petty's 14,930 (10.67%).

[16] In November 2015, Steve Toth, a former state representative from The Woodlands, Texas, announced that he would run against Brady.

[24] Toth criticized Brady for compromising too often with President Obama,[24] for supporting the omnibus federal budget bill, and for voting to revive the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

[29] Yet in 2008 he was one of the 24 Republicans (and 227 Democrats) to vote to impeach President George W. Bush for misleading the United States into going to war in Iraq.

[41] In March 2017, Brady introduced an amendment to the American Health Care Act (the House Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act) that would allow health insurance providers to fully deduct all forms of compensation to their most highly compensated executives without limit, repealing the current law, which capped the deduction at $500,000 per executive.

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik criticized Brady's amendment as a "secret payoff" to the health insurance industry because of its cryptic language.

[42][43] As chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, Brady opposed a resolution to request ten years' worth of returns from Trump and his business entities.

[49] Brady's claim that 70% of the tax cuts in the bill would go to households making below $200,000 was found to be "misleading" by FactCheck.Org and "cherry-picked" by PolitiFact.

[51] In December 2020, Brady was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated[52] Trump.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.

[53][54][55] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion.

"[56][57][58] In December 2020, Brady indicated that he supported a second round of Paycheck Protection Program funds to assist small businesses suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brady believes policies enacted by the first Trump administration, including the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, helped put the U.S. economy in a robust position going into the COVID-19 pandemic.

[67] In January 2021, he expressed concern that the Biden administration's drilling ban Executive Order 13990 on federal leases would "kill" 120,000 Texas jobs.

[68] In 2011, Brady cosponsored legislation directing the Justice Department to continue defending the Defense of Marriage Act.