July 20, 2026Methodology v2.2 · Data: BLS, 20102025
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CongressOklahoma

James Lankford

U.S. Senator, Oklahoma · Republican · in office since Jan. 3, 2023

James Lankford
U.S. Senator · Oklahoma · Republican · in the Senate since Jan. 2015
Overall grade · among senators
No. 6 of 91
+0.44σ · 64% of the grade measured
How this grade is built
35%Bills they move (LES)+0.41
30%Oklahoma: trend + condition (12% condition, 11.5y served)+0.02
25%Alignment (promises vs. votes)reserved
10%Attendancereserved
Oklahoma outcomes over their Senate service
CategoryLatestScore vs. peers
Education scale score264.524−0.79σ
Air quality AQI4424−1.10σ
Water quality % of community systems8.825+0.75σ
Unemployment %3.425+0.56σ
Health coverage % of adults 18-6414.124+0.35σ
Tax burden % of personal income5.024+0.35σ
Energy cost cents/kWh12.224+0.16σ
Cost of living index, US=10087.824+1.49σ
Crime deaths per 100,0007.224+0.95σ
Teen births per 1,000 females 15-1919.624+0.16σ
Wellbeing mean days of past 305.624+0.59σ
Obesity % of adults36.824+0.78σ
Early literacy % of 4th graders46.424−0.23σ
Gun deaths deaths per 100,000 (age-adjusted)19.124+0.60σ
Food-aid access index (higher = easier access)0.923+0.65σ
Jobless-benefit access % of unemployed receiving UI15.624−0.65σ
Their own recordValue
Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0
1.36
Missed votes0.4%
Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right (GovTrack)0.94
Promises keptIn human review

A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so they are scored on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — ranked against other senators — alongside their own legislative record. Influence is shared with 99 colleagues and the governor; the score shows relative movement, not sole credit. Methodology v2.2

What Lankford voted to fund

These pies aggregate the largest verified spending items — appropriations and mandatory outlays — in the bills Lankford cast a recorded vote on, sliced by category, every dollar quoted from the bill text. Authorizations, guarantee ceilings and pay-fors are excluded, exactly as on the bill pages. This shows what the bills contained, by Lankford’s own votes — not a claim that Lankford wrote the spending or that it did or didn’t work. Click any slice to read the cited line-items.

Voted to fund — every dollar, cited

income security$215.5B

veterans$95.3B

science$35.0B

defense$29.2B

other$24.4B

transportation$15.3B

water$11.7B

energy$10.7B

community & regional development$6.7B

health$676.0M

Voted against — every dollar, cited

community & regional development$406.0B

transportation$187.6B

education$162.6B

commerce & housing credit$127.8B

energy$117.3B

health$104.2B

other$102.9B

income security$85.8B

broadband$83.1B

veterans$66.1B

  • Appropriation to the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for veterans' health care (PACT Act), available Oct 1 2024Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$24,455,000,000
    H.R. 3746 — read the cited text →
  • Appropriation to the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for veterans' health care (PACT Act), available Oct 1 2023Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$20,268,000,000
    H.R. 3746 — read the cited text →
  • VA medical care and health needs (backlog and COVID-19 costs)Department of Veterans Affairs$14,482,000,000
    H.R. 1319 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for the 31 FY2023 major medical facility leasesDepartment of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$1,880,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to enter into enhanced-use leases of VA property (FY2022)Department of Veterans Affairs$922,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2031)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$650,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2030)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$620,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2029)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$610,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2028)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$600,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Initial mandatory appropriation seeding the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (FY2022)Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$500,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2027)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$450,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2026)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$400,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2025)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$200,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2024)Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$100,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →

water$28.5B

agriculture$22.3B

science$5.0B

environment$2.6B

defense$2.0B

Federal spending during Lankford’s current term

Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of Lankford’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money Lankford personally directed. A president proposes and Congress appropriates; no single official controls it.

FY23
$6.13T−$1.69T deficit
FY24
$6.74T−$1.82T deficit
FY25
$7.01T−$1.77T deficit

Source: OMB Historical Tables, Table 1.1 (Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789-present) · figures. Nominal dollars, by fiscal year (Oct–Sep).

How Lankford is graded

A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so Lankford is graded on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — measured as the change on their watch versus the other 49 states, capped because influence is shared with 99 colleagues, the governor and a world economy — blended with what they personally control: how effectively they move legislation and how they vote. Every part decomposes on the card above, and the “measured” figure says how much of the grade is real versus still reserved.

Legislative Effectiveness Scores come from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which benchmarks each chamber’s average to 1.0. Voting statistics come from GovTrack. The Honesty ledger — promises matched against this member’s votes — publishes only with an evidence trail and two agreeing human reviews.