James Comer

Republican · KY-1 · U.S. House

Bio

James Richardson Comer Jr. is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 1st congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he has served in Congress since 2016, during the 114th United States Congress. He previously served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and also served as the agriculture commissioner of Kentucky.

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Record of service

In office: 9.8 years
First took office: 2016 (6 terms)
Seniority: 156 of 437 by time served
Age: 54

District offices

Paducah, KY · 270-408-1865
Tompkinsville, KY · 270-487-9509
Madisonville, KY · 270-487-9509
Danville, KY · 859-439-5844

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$4.7M

2020

$4.8M

2021

$5.7M

2022

$5.7M

2023

$4.9M

2024

$5.8M

2025

$5.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $4.3M – $9.1M
Liabilities: $750k – $1.5M
Net worth: $2.8M – $8.4M
Since 2019: +$853k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 46 assets reported

Comer-Gumm-West Farm$500k – $1.0M

Comer-Lee-Hays Farm$500k – $1.0M

Comer-West Farm$500k – $1.0M

Frankfort Home$500k – $1.0M

Graham Farm$500k – $1.0M

Kirkpatrick Farm$500k – $1.0M

Richardson Farm$500k – $1.0M

Farm Team Properties, LLC$250k – $500k

Ford Farm$100k – $250k

Hilliard Lyons ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$100k – $250k

KY Judicial & Legislative Retirement System$50k – $100k

KY State Employees Retirement System$50k – $100k

Hilliard Lyons ⇒ Facebook, Inc. - Class A (FB)$50k – $100k

Hilliard Lyons ⇒ First Trust Capital Strength Fund$50k – $100k

Hilliard Lyons ⇒ First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus Fund$50k – $100k

American Funds Growth Fund of America$15k – $50k

Farm Checking Account$15k – $50k

NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$15k – $50k

PayPal Holdings, Inc. - Common Stock (PYPL)$15k – $50k

West Farm Lot$15k – $50k

Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG)$1k – $15k

Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN)$1k – $15k

Amphenol Corporation Common Stock (APH)$1k – $15k

Arista Networks, Inc. Common Stock (ANET)$1k – $15k

AT&T Inc. (T)$1k – $15k

Broadcom Inc. - Common Stock (AVGO)$1k – $15k

Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (CTBI)$1k – $15k

Costco Wholesale Corporation - Common Stock (COST)$1k – $15k

Dover Corporation Common Stock (DOV)$1k – $15k

Gamaliel Stargazer, LLC, 100% Interest$1k – $15k

Home Depot, Inc. (HD)$1k – $15k

Marvell Technology, Inc. - Common Stock (MRVL)$1k – $15k

Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT)$1k – $15k

Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX)$1k – $15k

Palantir Technologies Inc. - Class A Common Stock (PLTR)$1k – $15k

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. - Common Stock (PANW)$1k – $15k

Pershing, LLC$1k – $15k

Personal Checking Account$1k – $15k

Republic Bancorp, Inc. - Class A (RBCAA)$1k – $15k

Salesforce, Inc. Common Stock (CRM)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.74

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.94

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.84

Defense & Veterans

R+0.66

Economy & Labor

R+0.79

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.71

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.15

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.87

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

James Comer's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

64%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

James Comer (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Comersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Workforce Protections
House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformChaircenter · 47 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Comer's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.