Lance Gooden

RepublicanDistrict R+13119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score46#153 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Lance Gooden’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-3484 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2431 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4305

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal

Weak
Backs 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1993.

Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.716 (party median +0.530; rank 199 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).

Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 7.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Armed Services
Majority · 22nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
- Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
House Committee on the Judiciary
Majority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet
- Subcommittee on The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Gooden

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.716 is 0.19 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress96
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 201–250 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Lance Gooden on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 2458Secure Space Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	46	Middle
H.R. 2466To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5225 Harrison Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, as the "Jay P. Larson Post Office Building".Summary on Congress.gov