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U.S. Senator · Oklahoma
James Lankford
RepublicanState R+17119th Congress
Typical swing score22#97 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact James Lankford’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office731 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, 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
- StrongBacks 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 861, S. 2542.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.589 (party median +0.558; rank 33 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).
- MediumSafe Republican state: Oklahoma is R+17Oklahoma has a partisan lean of R+17 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Bill-specific inputs
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 15.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Select Committee on EthicsChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Senate Committee on FinanceMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health Care
- Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
- Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and InfrastructureChairman
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Lankford← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.589 is 0.03 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress96Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 881DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 29
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 901Research Security and Accountability in DHS ActSummary on Congress.gov |