Lance Gooden

Republican · TX-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Lance Carter Gooden is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 5th congressional district since 2019. His district includes parts of eastern Dallas, as well as a large swath of exurban and rural territory to Dallas's east.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 229 of 437 by time served
Age: 43

District offices

Terrell, TX · 903-502-5300

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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

$41k

2020

2021

$723k

2022

$179k

2023

−$147k

2024

−$129k

2025

−$69k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $427k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $550k – $1.1M
Net worth: −$673k – $534k
Since 2019: −$110k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 20 assets reported

WELLS FARGO BANK ACCOUNT$250k – $500k

ACG STRATEGIES, LLC, 100% Interest$100k – $250k

CHASE BANK ACCOUNT$50k – $100k

EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS$15k – $50k

American Airlines Group, Inc. - Common Stock (AAL)$1k – $15k

APA Corporation - Common Stock (APA)$1k – $15k

Baytex Energy Corp Common Shares (BTE)$1k – $15k

ConocoPhillips Common Stock (COP)$1k – $15k

Fifth Third Bancorp - Common Stock (FITB)$1k – $15k

Occidental Petroleum Corporation Common Stock (OXY)$1k – $15k

Ovintiv Inc. (OVV)$1k – $15k

PHX Minerals Inc. Common Stock (PHX)$1k – $15k

REGIONS BANK ACCOUNT$1k – $15k

TECHNIP ENERGIES S/ADR (THNPY)$1k – $15k

TechnipFMC plc Ordinary Share (FTI)$1k – $15k

Western Alliance Bancorporation Common Stock (WAL)$1k – $15k

Appian Corporation - Class A Common Stock (APPN)$1 – $1k

Comerica Incorporated Common Stock (CMA)$1 – $1k

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. Class A Common Stock (HIMS)$1 – $1k

Innoviz Technologies Ltd. - Ordinary shares (INVZ)$1 – $1k

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+0.69

Healthcare

R+0.88

Immigration & Border

R+0.94

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.79

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.60

Economy & Labor

R+0.74

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.41

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.79

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

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

92%Closest

64%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Lance Gooden (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 Goodensits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Gooden'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.