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U.S. Representative, Oklahoma 4th district · Republican

Tom Cole

24 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.

676 recorded votes

  • Voted for50975.3%
  • Voted against15623.1%
  • Did not vote81.2%
98.4%
of the votes they could cast
24
statements indexed
1,001
words on the floor

Turned up for 98.4% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

Cole voted 98 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Glenn Thompson more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with Henry Cuellar. They agreed 57 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 7 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 7, 2003
Terms served
12 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
April 28, 1949

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Appropriations run through nearly all of Cole's indexed remarks. Military construction leads at three, with six more headings at two apiece: a consolidated act, two continuing acts, homeland security, financial services and a pay bill for homeland defenders.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

24 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Tom Cole’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 24 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Tom Cole voted on 465 and was with the Republican majority on 446 of them.

465 party line votes cast

  • With their party44695.9%
  • Against their party194.1%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Tom Cole as speaking in 28 items of business across 22 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Tom Cole. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 676 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Oklahoma representatives in this Congress: Frank D. Lucas and Stephanie I. Bice.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.