Lance Gooden
Republican · TX-5 · U.S. House
TX-5 — U.S. House
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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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 229 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 43
- Terrell, TX · 903-502-5300
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
- Assets
- $427k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $550k – $1.1M
- Net worth
- −$673k – $534k
- Since 2019
- −$110k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 20 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Lance Gooden (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump ally target of 'bogus' ethics investigation blames friendship with the presidentTexas Representative Lance Gooden is facing an ethics review after the House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating a matter involving the congressman.
Dailymail.com · July 27, 2026
Yet Another Republican Congressman Is Under House Ethics InvestigationThe House Ethics Committee is investigating Texas Republican Representative Lance Gooden. The scope of the probe is unclear at this time. The committee said it received a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct last month.“The Committee notes that t…
The New Republic · July 27, 2026
Texas Republican is under House Ethics investigationThe House Ethics Committee said in a statement Monday it is investigating Rep. Lance Gooden, a four-term Texas Republican. It’s unclear what the committee is probing, but the Office of Congressional Conduct, an independent investigative branch of the House, …
Biztoc.com · July 27, 2026
Lawmakers Move to Create Federal Task Force Against Crypto TheftA bill introduced Thursday (June 11) in the U.S. House would create a federal task force to combat crypto theft and support victims. The Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Enforcement and Coordination Act was introduced by Reps. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and Josh Gott…
pymnts.com · June 11, 2026
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