Tom Cole
Republican · OK-4 · U.S. House
OK-4 — U.S. House
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Bio
Thomas Jeffery Cole is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district since 2003. A Republican, he previously served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991 and as the 26th secretary of state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999. An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, Cole is the longest-serving Native American in the history of Congress. On April 10, 2024, Cole was elected chair of the House Appropriations Committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years
- First took office
- 2003 (12 terms)
- Seniority
- 39 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 77
- Lawton, OK · 580-357-2131
- Norman, OK · 405-329-6500
- Ada, OK · 580-436-5375
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
- $5.0M – $14.0M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $5.0M – $14.0M
- Since 2019
- +$3.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 63 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
Tom Cole'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
Tom Cole (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Colesits 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
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cole'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
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Common Dreams · September 28, 2026
GOP chair dangles 'crowning achievement' for Trump that carries steep price for partySome congressional Republicans think they've found the ultimate legacy project for President Donald Trump – fixing Social Security before it goes broke.The catch is that doing so may require the president to embrace a tax increase, something he has spent his …
Raw Story · September 8, 2026
2026 is THE Social Security ElectionThe future of Social Security, the government program that touches the lives of more Americans than any other, will be determined by the results of the November elections. Let us explain. The Social Security program faces a funding shortfall. As ABC News repo…
Common Dreams · September 4, 2026
'Train wreck is going to happen': GOP lawmaker hammers panic button over looming crisisPresident Donald Trump and Republican Party leadership's complacency on a looming financial crisis has some members of the GOP caucus hitting the panic button.According to a report from Politico, Social Security, always a hot-button subject for both parties, …
Raw Story · August 27, 2026
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