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RepublicanLance Gooden
U.S. Representative · Texas
Texas's 5th district
U.S. Representative from Texas
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Lance Gooden won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 5) with 64.1% of the vote (192,185 votes).
- Lance Gooden · Republican64.1%192,185
- \"Ruth \\"\"Truth\\"\" Torres\" · Democrat35.9%107,712
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Lance Gooden's record indicates involvement in issues related to national security, immigration, and economic regulation. He has sponsored multiple bills addressing topics such as human trafficking (e.g., HR 3638, HR 1168), immigration enforcement (e.g., HR 1792, HR 552), and economic competition (e.g., HR 3881, HR 7035). Additionally, his committee memberships on Armed Services and Judiciary indicate involvement in defense and regulatory matters. Focus areas (from the record): national security · immigration · economic regulation · human trafficking · foreign influence Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Gooden's sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Lance Gooden has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Activity in office
What Lance Gooden has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 609
- Voted yea
- 467
- Voted nay
- 136
- Bills sponsored
- 65
- Committees
- 7
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$5K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$328K42%
- PAC / committee$448K57%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Tactical Air and Land ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the InternetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Seapower and Projection ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Cyber, Information Technologies, and InnovationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and AntitrustOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
65 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,170,230, spent $554,887, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9276: Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Enforcement and Coordination Act ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8685: Protect the Presidency Act ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7612: End Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026 ↗Feb 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7387: Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2026 ↗Feb 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7361: No Tax on Restored Benefits Act ↗Feb 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7035: Credit Card Competition Act of 2026 ↗Jan 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6792: Foreign-Trade Zone Export Enhancement Act of 2025 ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6262: Taiwan Interpol Endorsement and Inclusion Act ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3966: Think Tank and Nonprofit Foreign Influence Disclosure Act ↗Jun 12, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3539: Leadership in CET Act ↗May 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1792: No Tax Dollars for the United Nation’s Immigration Invasion Act ↗Mar 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1468: Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act ↗Feb 21, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 65 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 467
- Nay
- 136
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 6
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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