Meet Chris Bell
Chris Bell stands for what’s right- no matter the odds.
He has served as:
- Lifelong Democrat
- Journalist
- Attorney
- City Council Member
- U.S. Congressional Rep
He has earned a reputation for integrity, independence, and a relentless commitment to fairness for all Texans.
A True Texan
Chris is from all over Texas.
Born in Abilene and raised in Dallas — Chris attended The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a journalism degree and led efforts to reinstate Student Government as president of the Interfraternity Council. After college, he became an award-winning broadcast journalist, covering local government and exposing corruption.
These experiences led him to decide to fight for change.
City Council to Congress
After earning his law degree from South Texas College of Law, the voters of Houston and Harris County elected Chris to the Houston City Council. He championed transparency, ethics, and accountability in city government.
His record of reform earned him the trust and support of the voters who would elect him to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Houston’s 25th Congressional District.
In Congress, Chris founded the bipartisan Port Security Caucus to strengthen Texas’s vital ports and served as assistant whip under House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer.
Courage, Integrity, Ethics
Then, a moment that showed his unflinching character.
In 2004, Chris filed a historic ethics complaint against then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. With this act, Chris exposed corruption and broke free from a seven-year bipartisan silence on congressional ethics. The House Ethics Committee unanimously admonished DeLay — a landmark victory for honesty in government and a testament to Chris’s courage and integrity.
Though Chris would pay the price with mid-decade redistrcting, Texas Democrats nominated Chris as our party’s candidate for Governor of Texas in 2006. Chris earned over 1.3 million votes in a four-way race. Today, he continues to serve Texans as an attorney in Houston and Chappell Hill, and as a passionate advocate for clean government, fairness, and opportunity for all.
Now, Chris is running for Governor again — to bring integrity to state leadership, strengthen Texas schools, expand healthcare, and help write a new chapter in our history. A new way forward with a Texas that works for everyone — not just the well-connected few.
Texans Deserve Better
The people of Texas shape my policy positions.
I trust Texas women — and I believe government should not come between a woman and her doctor. For decades now, unqualified leaders in the highest positions in the state have spent far too much time thinking about the inner workings of women’s bodies, and not nearly enough time thinking about women’s individual rights.
I have consistently supported policies that protect reproductive rights while ensuring that mothers have access to the healthcare and support they need.
I voted against banning certain medical procedures that could endanger a mother’s life, because people and their doctors — not politicians — should make those decisions.
We do not review and approve rate hikes in Texas, thus leaving us with some of the highest home and car insurance rates in the country. Like other states, we need to stop the practice of allowing insurance carriers to simply file and implement their desired increases. They need to be required to justify every cent. This will greatly slow and deter increases. And, while the new review system is being put into place, we need to freeze rates if possible.
The governor has a non-delegable duty to appoint Texas Transportation Commissioners whose sole mandate is measurable mobility, fiscal discipline, and independence from road-builder capture. Commissioners must be subject to strict conflict-of-interest bans, term limits, and mandatory public disclosure of benefit-cost analyses for all major projects. No data? No deal. No corruption. We must end the practice of simply widening highways that fail within five years. We must increase our throughput-per-dollar spent. Texans have paid billions to widen roads that clog up again. that’s not inevitability; that’s bad management.
Contact information
P.O. Box 2161, Houston, TX 77252