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James Comer

James Comer

Republican · KY U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

11 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2016

  • background Born August 19, 1972; a member of the Republican Party
  • background Kentucky House of Representatives from 2000 to 2012 and agriculture commissioner of Kentucky from 2012 to 2016
  • role U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 1st congressional district since 2016, winning both full term and special election in November 2016
  • controversy Chair of the Oversight Committee since 2023; declined or stopped investigations into former president Trump while investigating Biden and his family
  • controversy Investigation into Biden family found no evidence Biden was directly involved or profited from family's business activities (as of August 2024)
  • role Began investigations into Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz after Biden ended his 2024 presidential campaign

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

  • 94.1%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 17 recorded roll calls

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 12
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 73 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 1
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 12 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting

    votes with the party majority · on 8 party-line votes

    Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

  • 0%
    Cross-party voting

    votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

    The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

  • 0
    Documented positions →

    no positions documented yet

    Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

  • 4
    Committee assignments →

    committees and subcommittees

    Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

  • 43
    Disclosed stock trades →

    30 tickers

    Disclosed trades are legally required public filings (STOCK Act), not evidence of wrongdoing; trades may be executed by a manager or held in a blind trust.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for James Comer. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

94.1%
of House roll calls voted

Full voting record (17 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 17 of 676 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Issue positions (3)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House KY-01 · 2026 General Election

  • $1,899,533 raised
  • $2,067,643 spent
  • $3,041,112 cash on hand
$1.90M
$1.88M
$1.45M
Itemized (≥ $200)$757.88K
Unitemized (< $200)$692.70K
Other committees (PACs)$426.90K
Transfers from other committees$21.58K
Offsets to expenditures$476.76
$2.07M
Operating expenditures$1.60M
Other disbursements$464.40K
Cash on hand$3.04M
Debts owed by committee$0.00

Through June 30, 2026 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Jun 30, 2026)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

James Comer campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2016$1,155,295$1,070,732$84,563
2018$721,796$637,459$168,900
2020$741,257$507,694$402,463
2022$1,649,490$974,131$1,077,822
2024$7,650,142$5,518,741$3,209,223
2026$1,899,533$2,067,643$3,041,112

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

  • Employer not reported $298,643
  • NYCBS $52,300
  • NEW YORK CANCER AND BLOOD SPECIALISTS $23,750
  • SWIFT & STALEY $20,000
  • CASSIDY & COMPANY $19,800
  • NEXTGEN MANAGEMENT $13,200
  • ELLIOTT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT $13,200
  • ORACLE CORPORATION $10,000
  • KIRKLAND & ELLIS $8,800
  • SITE DEVELOPMENT $8,190

Sponsored / cosponsored bills (85)

Data from Congress.gov

85
Page 1 of 4 · 85 bills
  • HRES 1543Recommending that the House of Representatives find Leon D. Black in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.sponsoredSep 15, 2026
  • HR 10389Survivor’s Voice Protection ActsponsoredSep 14, 2026
  • HR 9720D.C. Taxing Authority Review ActsponsoredJul 15, 2026
  • HR 9298Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts ActcosponsoredJun 10, 2026
  • HR 8463Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access ActsponsoredApr 22, 2026
  • HR 8464Stopping Fraudulent Payments ActsponsoredApr 22, 2026
  • HR 8200Interstate Ferry Fairness ActcosponsoredApr 5, 2026
  • HR 7248MARINA ActsponsoredJan 26, 2026
  • HR 7024Hemp Planting Predictability ActcosponsoredJan 12, 2026
  • HR 7010To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2026, to delay the implementation of amendments made by such Act to the hemp production provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946.cosponsoredJan 11, 2026
  • HR 6609Pharmacists Fight Back in Medicare and Medicaid ActcosponsoredDec 10, 2025
  • HR 6610Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]cosponsoredDec 10, 2025
  • HR 6332To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building".cosponsoredNov 30, 2025
  • HRES 900Expressing condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the crash of UPS Airlines flight 2976.cosponsoredNov 19, 2025
  • HR 5874Firearm Access During Shutdowns ActcosponsoredOct 30, 2025
  • HR 5822Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025cosponsoredOct 23, 2025
  • HR 5750EQUALS Act of 2025cosponsoredOct 13, 2025
  • HR 5749Official Time Reporting ActcosponsoredOct 13, 2025
  • HR 5731School Food Modernization ActcosponsoredOct 9, 2025
  • HR 5578Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2026cosponsoredSep 25, 2025
  • HR 5401Pay Our Troops Act of 2026cosponsoredSep 15, 2025
  • HRES 719Honoring the life and legacy of Charles Charlie James Kirk.cosponsoredSep 15, 2025
  • HR 5267American Franchise ActcosponsoredSep 9, 2025
  • HR 5183District of Columbia Home Rule Improvement Act of 2025cosponsoredSep 7, 2025
  • HR 5031Preserving Patient Access to Long-Term Care Pharmacies ActcosponsoredAug 21, 2025
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Committee assignments (4)

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Comer most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Comer, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Comer connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

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Comments

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Committee activity

Committee votes cast

Proceedings attended

Congress.gov publishes no attendance list, so this reflects the proceedings whose own record names this member — in an opening statement, an attendance roster or a vote sheet. It is not a complete attendance history.

Congressional testimony