Over the past year, his first in Congress, Stockman has masterfully built up his reputation through a number of attention-grabbing moves. He has also become known in the mainstream through his steady presence on Twitter.
Below, we have put together 10 of the most classic Steve Stockman moves.
1. Threatening Obama with impeachment - the first time.
Stockman has been particularly outspoken on the issue of guns and gun control, which coincided immediately with the debate after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last year. Some 10 days after he was sworn into office, Stockman threatened to impeach President Barack Obama if he used executive orders to change gun regulations. He later backed off the threat.
2. Inviting Ted Nugent to be his guest at the State of the Union.
In April 2012, Ted Nugent met with the Secret Service after saying at an NRA convention that he'd be "dead or in jail" if Obama was re-elected. In February 2013, Stockman invited the "patriot" to be his guest at the State of the Union. A couple weeks later, in a video chat with Nugent, he wondered if the family members of victims Obama brought to the State of the Union were "useful idiots."
3. Making this bumper sticker.
In April, amid the height of the criminal trial surrounding Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic, Stockman debuted this bumper sticker on his campaign Twitter feed:
Twitter/@StockmanSenate
4. Introducing the 'Student Protection Act.'
In July, Stockman introduced the "Student Protection Act," legislation that aims to bar federal funding for any schools that punishes a child for brandishing imaginary weapons.
"This government-sanctioned political correctness is traumatizing children and spreading irrational fear," the bill reads.
5. Inviting the Obama rodeo clown to Texas.
Do you remember the Missouri rodeo clown who was banned from the State Fair for wearing a mask depicting Obama's face - after the rodeo announcer said he wanted to see "Obama run down by a bull?" Stockman subsequently invited him to perform in Texas.
"The liberal reaction is straight out of Alinsky. They want to crush dissent by isolating and polarizing anyone who questions Obama, even if it's a rodeo clown with a harmless gag," Stockman said in a press release. "The idea to create a state of fear and make people afraid to trivialize Obama. No one tried to personally destroy the rodeo clown who wore a George H.W. Bush mask."
6. Giving an "Obama impeachment book" to every member of Congress.
Instead of candy on Halloween, Stockman distributed to every member of Congress a book he titled, "Impeachable Offenses: The Case For Removing Barack Obama From Office."
"I hope this book helps convince my colleagues to hold Barack Obama legally responsible for his disregard for the law," he said. "When told of his offense, Obama sought to cover them up rather than accept responsibility and correct the mistakes."
7. Comparing Obamacare to sexually transmitted diseases.
In November, after October's dreadful health insurance exchange sign-up numbers were released, Stockman drew up a number of colorful comparisons to show how few people had signed up. Including this one:
8. Tweeting a crucifixion metaphor.
In late November, Senate Democrats drastically changed Senate rules to get more presidential nominees passed by a majority vote. In a subsequent statement form the White House, Obama argued, "If you've got a majority of folks who believe in something, then it should be able to pass."
Stockman responded to this by tweeting, "Give us Barabbas!" a reference to the prisoner whom a crowd chose to release instead of Jesus in accounts of the Passion of the Christ.
"That's in reference to mob rule," Stockman said in a subsequent interview with World Net Daily. "As you know, the mob ruled and killed Jesus, an innocent man (and spared Barabbas). We have a rogue Senate."
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These eight examples only scratch the surface of Stockman's full history while campaigning for and holding office. In 1995, during his first and only other stint as a member of the House of Representatives, Stockman accused the Clinton administration engineering a "false flag" effort to stage the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., in a push for an assault-weapons ban.
He also pushed for an investigation of Alfred Kinsey, the biologist who chronicled male and female sexual behaviors. And he once traveled to Denmark to protest the concept of "climate change" while wearing a red blindfold.