James LankfordJames Lankford – OK

Current Position: US Senator since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2011 – 2016
Other Positions:  
Ranking Member, Government Operations and Border Management subcommittee – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure – Finance

Lankford was ordained Southern Baptist minister. He was president of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a youth camp operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, from 1996 to 2009.

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Current Position: US Senator since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2011 – 2016
Other Positions:  
Ranking Member, Government Operations and Border Management subcommittee – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure – Finance

Lankford was ordained Southern Baptist minister. He was president of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a youth camp operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, from 1996 to 2009.

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Last week alone there were 20,000 interdictions on our southern border in the Rio Grande. The border is open & this crisis is growing. Biden needs to stop making excuses, step up & close the border.

Lankford Pushes Back Against Democrats Reckless Tax and Spending

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James Lankford 1James Lankford serves Oklahomans. He served four years in the US House of Representatives for central Oklahoma, until he was overwhelmingly elected to the US Senate in 2014.

James was recognized as the Senate’s top-ranked “Taxpayers Friend” by the National Taxpayers Union for his strong record in support of lower taxes, limited government, and economic freedom. His annual Federal Fumbles report is a must-read in Washington, DC, because of its commonsense solutions to the problems our federal government faces. He has also been recognized by many other organizations for his work toward increased personal freedom, economic growth, and religious liberty.

James lives in Oklahoma City with his wife Cindy. They have been married more than 27 years and have two daughters, Hannah and Jordan. He enjoys spending time with his family, working in his yard, and reading.

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Full Name: James Lankford

Gender: Male

Family: Wife: Cindy; 2 Children: Hannah, Jordan

Birth Date: 03/04/1968

Birth Place: Dallas, TX

Home City: Oklahoma City, OK

Religion: Southern Baptist

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Education

MDiv, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994

BS, Secondary Education, University of Texas, 1990

Political Experience

Senator, United States Senate, Oklahoma, 2014-present

Candidate, United States Senate, Oklahoma, 2022

Chair, Majority Policy Committee, United States House of Representatives, 2013-2014

Representative, United States House of Representatives, District 5, 2010-2014

Professional Experience

Director of Student Ministry, Baptist Convention of Oklahoma, present

Director, Falls Creek Youth Camp, 1996-2009

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Oklahoma City
1015 North Broadway Avenue
Suite 310
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Phone: (405) 231-4941

Tulsa
401 South Boston Avenue
Suite 2150
Tulsa, OK 74103
Phone: (918) 581-7651

Washington, DC
316 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5754

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United States Senate Committee on Finance

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James Paul Lankford (born March 4, 1968) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, Lankford has represented Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate since 2015. Before his Senate service, he represented Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.

From 1996 to 2009, Lankford was president of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a youth camp operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. In 2010, Lankford ran for Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district. In the Republican primary, he defeated state representative Kevin Calvey in a runoff, and he defeated Democratic nominee Billy Coyle in the general election. Lankford was reelected in 2012; shortly thereafter, he was named chair of the House Republican Policy Committee.

In lieu of running for a third term in the House, Lankford announced he would run in the 2014 U.S. Senate special election following Senator Tom Coburn‘s planned resignation. He won the June 2014 primary with 57% of the vote, becoming the Republican nominee. Lankford won the special election with nearly 68% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Connie Johnson. He was reelected in 2016 with nearly 68% of the vote and in 2022 with 64% of the vote. Lankford became the state’s senior senator in 2023 upon the retirement of Senator Jim Inhofe.

Early life and education

Lankford was born March 4, 1968, in Dallas, Texas,[2] the son of Linda Joyce (née House) and James Wesley Lankford.[3][4] His mother was an elementary school librarian.[5] His maternal grandparents owned a small dry-cleaning business, his father and paternal grandparents a dairy farm.[6] His stepfather was a career employee of AC Delco, the parts division of General Motors.[6]

Lankford’s parents divorced when he was four; he lived with his mother and older brother for a time in his grandparents’ garage apartment. He became a Christian at eight. His mother remarried when he was twelve, and the family moved to Garland, Texas, with his stepfather.[5]

Lankford attended Lakeview Centennial High School in Garland. While there, he participated in the Close Up Washington civic education program. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education (specializing in speech and history) at University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and a master’s degree in Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994.[5] Lankford is an ordained Southern Baptist minister.[7]

Ministry

Lankford moved to Oklahoma in 1995.[8] He was president of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a youth camp operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, from 1996 to 2009.[9] Lankford stepped down from his position at Falls Creek in 2009 to run for Congress.[8][10]

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Elections

2010

Main article: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma § District 5

After two-term incumbent Republican Mary Fallin announced she was giving up her seat to run for governor of Oklahoma, Lankford entered the race to succeed her.[2] He finished first in a seven-way Republican primary—the important contest in this heavily Republican district—and defeated former State Representative Kevin Calvey in the runoff.[11] He then defeated Democrat Billy Coyle in the general election with 62.53% of the vote.[5][12][2]

2012

Main article: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma § District 5

Lankford defeated Democrat Tom Guild with 59% of the vote in 2012.[13] Following the election, he was named chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.[14][15]

Committee assignments

Caucus Membership

U.S. Senate

Elections

2014

Main article: 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma
Official portrait, 2015

In January 2014, Lankford announced he would run in the 2014 Senate special election to succeed retiring Republican Senator Tom Coburn.[18] Lankford won the June 2014 Republican primary, defeating former state House speaker T.W. Shannon and former state senator Randy Brogdon.[19] In November, Lankford won the election for the final two years of Coburn’s second term, defeating retiring state senator Constance N. Johnson, 67.9%-29.0%. Independent candidate Mark Beard won the remaining 3.2% of the vote.[20]

2016

Main article: 2016 United States Senate election in Oklahoma

Lankford was elected to a full six-year term in the Senate in 2016, defeating Democratic consultant Mike Workman with 68% of the vote.[21]

2022

Main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Oklahoma

On April 6, 2021, Lankford announced he would seek reelection.[22] He was reelected with 64% of the vote.[23]

Tenure

Lankford was sworn into office on January 6, 2015 by Vice President Joe Biden.[24]

On December 21, 2017, Lankford was one of six senators to introduce the Secure Elections Act, which would authorize block grants to states to update outdated voting technology.[25]

Lankford became the senior U.S. senator from Oklahoma in 2023 upon the retirement of Senator Jim Inhofe.[26][27]

Lankford was the lead Senate Republican negotiator on a bipartisan bill intended to resolve the Mexico–United States border crisis. House Republicans were skeptical of the bill before the text was released, and Senate Republicans also swiftly turned against the bill upon its release on February 4, 2024, after Donald Trump said he did not want President Joe Biden to score a political win with it. On February 7, Senate Republicans blocked the bill in a floor vote, with only four of the 14 Republican votes needed in favor. Lankford said on the floor before the vote that a “popular commentator” had told him a month earlier, “If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election.” Two days before the vote, Trump told a radio host, “This is a very bad bill for his career”, while also falsely asserting he had never endorsed Lankford.[28] The Oklahoma Republican Party censured Lankford days before the bill was released, asserting he was “playing fast and loose” with Democrats.[29] The National Border Patrol Council, a union representing 18,000 border patrol officers, quickly endorsed the bill upon its release; the union had endorsed Trump in 2020 and sharply criticized Biden’s border policies.[30]

Committee assignments

Political positions

Taxes

Lankford supports budget austerity through lowering taxes and reducing government spending.[31] He took the taxpayer protection pledge promising to support no new taxes.[31] He supports the repeal of the income and estate taxes and supports a sales tax to tax consumption and not savings or earnings.[31]

Guns

In 2014, Lankford was endorsed by the NRA Political Victory Fund and had an “A” rating from the group.[32][33][34] Lankford supports loosening restrictions on interstate gun purchases.[31] He opposes firearm microstamping, a controversial method of imprinting casings with a unique marking to match it with a specific firearm, and would allow veterans to register unlicensed firearms.[31]

After the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which the perpetrator used a Smith & Wesson M&P15 AR-15 style rifle to kill 17 and wound 17 others, Lankford said on NBC News‘ Meet the Press he was open to requiring more comprehensive background checks for firearm purchases, saying, “The problem is not owning an AR-15, it’s the person who owns it.”[35][36][37]

Cannabis

Lankford opposed a 2018 ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana in Oklahoma, calling it “harmful to the social fabric of Oklahoma” and arguing that it would have a “dramatic effect on our families and our schools and our businesses and the future of our state”.[38][39] He also appeared in a video ad calling for defeat of the initiative, stating: “Our families won’t be better if more parents and grandparents smoke more marijuana.”[40] The measure passed with 57% of the vote.[41]

In 2015, Lankford introduced the Keeping out Illegal Drugs (KIDS) Act to block federal funds for Indian tribes that allow the cultivation or distribution of marijuana on their land.[42] Lankford stated: “It is important for our nation to help address this issue for the sake of the next generation of Native Americans. This legislation is a good step in trying to protect young tribal members and fulfill our trust responsibility to Native Americans.”[43]

Defense

Lankford supports extending the Patriot Act and expanding roving wiretaps occurring in the US.[31] He supports the prioritization of security, starting with military bases.[31]

Environment

Lankford supports expanding exploration of gas and oil both domestically and on the outer continental shelf.[31] He opposes the Environmental Protection Agency regulating emission standards as he believes it hinders economic growth.[31] Lankford believes manure and other fertilizers should not be classified as pollutants or hazardous.[31]

Lankford has rejected the scientific consensus on climate change, calling it a “myth” in 2010.[44] In 2018, he strongly criticized the National Science Foundation for funding projects that seek to increase reporting on climate change in weathercasts, saying it “is not science—it is propagandizing.”[45][46]

Healthcare

Lankford opposes the Affordable Care Act and has voted to repeal it.[47][48] In a 2017 Facebook post, he claimed “Since 2013, a majority of states are seeing premiums and costs double, including states that expanded Medicaid”.[49]

Lankford has stated his belief that federally funded health insurance is unconstitutional and that he will oppose any and all moves for a federal healthcare system.[31] He supported an initiative to allow Medicare choice and institute budget cuts.[31]

Abortion

Lankford opposes abortion.[31] He believes Congress should recognize life at the moment of fertilization.[31] He opposes any federally funded programs that allow for abortion, as well as Planned Parenthood and other similar groups.[31]

LGBT rights

Lankford speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2016

Lankford opposes same-sex marriage. In the early days of his 2010 campaign for the House of Representatives, Lankford disparaged the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded hate crime legislation to include greater penalties for hate crimes motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation or race.[50]

Lankford supported Oklahoma Question 711, a statewide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions that passed in 2004 with 75% of the vote and remained law until it was challenged in court and struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional in 2014. Lankford lambasted the decision, saying that “marriage is a state issue and Oklahoma has spoken.”[50] He also endorsed the Defense of Marriage Act and condemned the 2013 Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the law.

Lankford has defended businesses and individuals opposing LGBT rights, including Chick-fil-A in the wake of its denunciation over donations to groups opposing same-sex marriage, and Phil Robertson after he was suspended from Duck Dynasty in 2013 following comments regarded as anti-LGBT and racist. Lankford attacked A&E for suspending Robertson, writing that Robertson “should be able to speak his views without fear of being silenced.”[50]

In 2012, five days after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, the first sitting U.S. president to do so, Lankford told a ThinkProgress interviewer that he believed homosexuality is a choice and that employers should be allowed to terminate workers for their sexual orientation: “I think it’s a choice issue.” After LGBT advocates condemned his statements, Lankford defended himself on local television, reiterating his view that homosexuality is a choice.[51][52][53]

After the Southern Poverty Law Center designated the Alliance Defending Freedom an anti-LGBT hate group, Lankford criticized the designation and defended the ADF, which had described same-sex marriage as a threat to a “healthy, free and stable society.”[54][55]

In 2015, Lankford condemned the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that same-sex marriage bans violated the constitution.[56]

Xinjiang

In August 2018, Lankford, Marco Rubio and 15 other lawmakers urged the Trump administration to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses in western China‘s Xinjiang region.[57] They wrote: “The detention of as many as a million or more Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in “political reeducation” centers or camps requires a tough, targeted, and global response.”[58]

Race relations

In June 2020, Lankford criticized President Trump’s decision to walk to the St John’s Episcopal Church near the White House, calling it “confrontational”. In a BBC interview he said that racism passes on from one generation to the next, and he challenged families to invite a family of a different ethnicity to their home for a meal, to “allow friendship to develop where there has only been friendliness in the past”.[59]

In January 2021, after Lankford questioned the validity of the 2020 presidential election, some Black Tulsa leaders called for him to resign from both the 1921 Race Massacre Centennial Committee and the Senate. They saw the false fraud allegations, which focused on primarily Black cities, as an attack on Black voters.[60] Lankford later apologized for his role in casting doubt on Black votes.[61]

2020 election

After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump refused to concede, Lankford said he would intervene and ensure that Biden, the incoming president, would receive intelligence briefings. Shortly thereafter, he backtracked, said the media had twisted his words, and said “I’m not in a hurry, necessarily, to get Joe Biden these briefings.”[62]

Lankford initially announced plans to object to the counting of some swing states’ electoral votes as part of an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, but he reversed course after the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[63] He later apologized for casting doubt on the validity of the presidential election results in several swing states.[61]

Lankford voted to acquit in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.[64]

On May 28, 2021, Lankford voted against creating the January 6 commission.[65]

Earmarks

In 2021, Lankford opposed bringing back earmarks to the Senate.[66]

Debt ceiling

Lankford was among 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to raise the debt ceiling.[67]

Religion

Lankford praised the United States Supreme Court decision Groff v. DeJoy for making it “clear to every employer that Americans can have a faith and live their faith everywhere, including at work”.[68]

Personal life

Lankford and his wife, Cindy, have two daughters.[69] He attends Quail Springs Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma City.[70]

Electoral history

Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district election, 2010

Republican primary
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford18,76033.58
RepublicanKevin Calvey18,14732.48
RepublicanMike Thompson10,00817.91
RepublicanShane Jett5,95610.66
RepublicanJohnny Roy1,5482.77
RepublicanRick Flanigan7621.36
RepublicanHarry Johnson6861.23
Total55,867100
Republican primary runoff
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford29,81765.22
RepublicanKevin Calvey15,90234.78
Total45,719100
General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford123,23662.52
DemocraticBilly Coyle68,07434.54
IndependentClark Duffe3,0671.56
IndependentDave White2,7281.38
Total197,105100
Republican hold

Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district election, 2012

General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford (Incumbent)153,60358.70
DemocraticTom Guild97,50437.30
IndependentPat Martin5,3942.10
IndependentRobert Murphy5,1762.00
Total261,677100
Republican hold

U.S. Senate special election in Oklahoma, 2014

Republican primary
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford152,74957.20
RepublicanT. W. Shannon91,85434.40
RepublicanRandy Brogdon12,9344.80
RepublicanKevin Crow2,8281.10
RepublicanAndy Craig2,4270.90
RepublicanEric McCray2,2720.90
RepublicanJason Weger1,7940.70
Total266,858100
General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford557,00267.90
DemocraticConnie Johnson237,92329.00
IndependentMark T. Beard25,9653.20
Total820,890100
Republican hold

U.S. Senate election in Oklahoma, 2016

General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford (Incumbent)980,89267.7
DemocraticMike Workman355,91124.58
LibertarianRobert Murphy43,4213.00
IndependentSean Braddy40,4052.79
IndependentMark T. Beard27,4181.89
Total1,448,047100.00
Republican hold

U.S. Senate election in Oklahoma, 2022

General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanJames Lankford (Incumbent)739,96064.3
DemocraticMadison Horn369,37032.1
IndependentMichael Delaney20,9071.8
LibertarianKenneth Blevins20,4951.8
Total100.00
Republican hold

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by

 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district
2011–2015		Succeeded by

Party political offices
Preceded by

 Chair of the House Republican Policy Committee
2013–2015		Succeeded by

Preceded by

 Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
(Class 3)
2014, 2016, 2022		Most recent
U.S. Senate
Preceded by

 U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Oklahoma
2015–present
Served alongside: Jim Inhofe, Markwayne Mullin		Incumbent
Preceded by

 Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee
2019–2021		Succeeded by

U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

as United States Senator from Montana

 Order of precedence of the United States
as United States Senator from Oklahoma
since January 3, 2015		Succeeded by

as United States Senator from Alaska

Preceded by

 United States senators by seniority
59th		Succeeded by


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lankford

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James Lankford

James Lankford – OK

Current Position: US Senator since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2011 – 2016
Other Positions:  
Ranking Member, Government Operations and Border Management subcommittee – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure – Finance

Lankford was ordained Southern Baptist minister. He was president of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center, a youth camp operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, from 1996 to 2009.

Featured Quote: 
Last week alone there were 20,000 interdictions on our southern border in the Rio Grande. The border is open & this crisis is growing. Biden needs to stop making excuses, step up & close the border.

Lankford Pushes Back Against Democrats Reckless Tax and Spending

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Markwayne Mullin

Markwayne Mullin – OK

Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative of OK 2nd District since 2013; Businessman from 1997 – 2013

Mullin is the first Native American U.S. senator since Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired in 2005. In 1997, at age 20, Mullin took over his father’s business, Mullin Plumbing, when his father fell ill. In 2010,

Mullin received an associate’s degree in construction technology from Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology He is the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor’s degree.

Featured Quote: 
Socialist policies don’t work, but that’s exactly what President Biden and Speaker Pelosi are forcing on the American people. And now our country is in crisis because of it. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here in Washington fighting back. #WeeklyWrapUp

Rep. Mullin Questions FBI Director Wray about Threat of Antifa in Intelligence Committee Hearing

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