James Lankford

16 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2011

• Senator OK 2015–present
• Representative OK-5 2011–2015

• background Born March 4, 1968
• background Southern Baptist minister; ordained
• background President of Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center (1996–2009)
• role U.S. House representative for Oklahoma's 5th district (2011–2015)
• role U.S. Senator from Oklahoma since 2015; elected via 2014 special election, reelected 2016, 2022

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $142,625 · 90 receipts

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.

• 93.3%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

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

• 74
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 322 cosponsored

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

• 1
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 74 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 · median 100% · on 11 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.

• 9
  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.

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

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Ethics (Select) Committee Chairman
• Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman
• Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee Chairman · oversees Energy
• Finance Committee
• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
• Intelligence (Select) Committee
• Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
• Taxation and IRS Oversight Subcommittee
• Health Care Subcommittee · oversees Health

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

• DefenseFull support from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyFull support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

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

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

Data from Congress.gov