James Lankford

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25

Yea Rate

88.0%

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James Lankford is Oklahoma's senior Republican senator and Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair, a former youth minister serving his second full term focused on border policy and religious liberty.

James Paul Lankford is the senior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, a Republican first elected in a 2014 special election to fill the remainder of Tom Coburn's term, then re-elected in 2016 and 2022. A Dallas native who settled in Oklahoma, Lankford earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and a master of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and directed the Falls Creek Youth Camp, one of the nation's largest Christian youth ministries, for over a decade before entering Congress. He served two terms in the U.S. House, rising to House Republican Policy Committee chairman, before winning his Senate seat. In the 119th Congress, he serves on Finance, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Intelligence, and Ethics committees, holding a leadership position as Chair of the Government Operations and Border Management Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and serving as Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair. He was a lead Republican negotiator on a 2024 bipartisan border-security package. His priorities include border policy and immigration enforcement, federal spending oversight and government efficiency, and religious liberty protections.