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U.S. Senator · Oklahoma
James Lankford
RepublicanState R+17119th Congress
Typical swing score22#96 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 26 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 26 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 332, S. 545, S. 572, S. 861 and 21 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 315 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 332 Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 545 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 572 Shadow Wolves Improvement Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 861 Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
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
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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 1351–1400 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2808Homebuyers Privacy Protection ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | No recorded vote | 20
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 3074 |