Tom Cole

24 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2003

• Representative OK-4 2003–present

• background Born April 28, 1949; a former educator and an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation
• role A Republican who served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991
• role 26th secretary of state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999
• role U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district since 2003
• achievement The longest-serving Native American in the history of Congress
• role Elected chair of the House Appropriations Committee on April 10, 2024

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

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• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 3 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

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• 19
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 92 cosponsored

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

• 5
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 19 bills sponsored

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

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

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• 1
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

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• 2
  Disclosed stock trades →

  0 tickers · 1 in a sector a committee they sit on oversees

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Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Appropriations Committee Chair

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

• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

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