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Lance Gooden

U.S. Representative · TX-5 · Republican

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From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 4, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.20· expected 1.41

Below expectations

Rank 375 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

How far Gooden’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 14
  2. Action in committee 1
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

14 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 14 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Gooden’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Gooden.

Gooden in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

Attendance

How it’s measured
99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 6 missed of 674

Voted on 668 of 674 roll calls; missed 6. Higher than 75% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 39 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 472 votes that split the parties. Higher than 74% of House members.

45%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
11/ 100

Chamber median 12 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 57% of House members.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.72

Republican middle 80%: 0.32 to 0.71

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 14 (median 26) · cosponsored 228 (median 294), 84 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the House. From congress.gov.

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