U.S. Representative — Kentucky's 1st District
James Comer
Republican · Kentucky
Republican U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 1st congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (46 on record)
- H.R.9720 — D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act (Reported, Jul 16, 2026)
- H.R.8463 — Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act (Introduced, Apr 23, 2026)
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act This bill expands efforts to identify, prevent, and recover improper payments of federal funds (e.g., overpayments, underpayments, payments to ineligible recipients). Specifically, the Department of the Treasury must establish certain… - H.R.8464 — Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act (Introduced, Apr 23, 2026)
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act This bill establishes requirements to prevent fraudulent or improper payments from federal programs. Specifically, the bill directs executive agencies to take corrective actions to temporarily pause, condition, or segment payment voucher requests before certifying… - H.R.7248 — MARINA Act (Introduced, Jan 27, 2026)
- H.R.4366 — Save Local Business Act (Passed House, Jul 14, 2025)
Save Local Business Act This bill provides that a person may be considered a joint employer of the employees of another employer under federal labor law only if such person directly, actually, and immediately exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment. Such… - H.R.1515 — GOOD Act (Introduced, Feb 24, 2025)
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single… - H.R.1295 — Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 (Introduced, Feb 13, 2025)
Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content. The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired… - H.R.1276 — To remove restrictions from a parcel of land in Paducah, Kentucky. (Reported, Feb 13, 2025)
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove all deed restrictions from approximately 3.62 acres located at 2956 Park Avenue, on the Paducah Memorial Army Reserve Center in Paducah, Kentucky. The restrictions include easements, exceptions, reservations, terms, conditions, and covenants…
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.9298 — Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act (Introduced, Jul 14, 2026)
- H.R.8200 — Interstate Ferry Fairness Act (Introduced, Jun 30, 2026)
- H.R.5731 — School Food Modernization Act (Introduced, Jun 18, 2026)
- H.R.1628 — 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act (Introduced, Jun 10, 2026)
- H.R.5267 — American Franchise Act (Reported, May 11, 2026)
- H.R.4448 — Restoring Equal Opportunity Act (Introduced, Mar 2, 2026)
- H.R.4620 — To amend title 18, United States Code, to include rioting in the definition of racketeering activity. (Introduced, Feb 26, 2026)
- H.R.2145 — Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2025 (Reported, Feb 17, 2026)
Voting analysis
James Comer chairs the Oversight and Government Reform committee. Government operations is the classification on more of his bills than all his other subjects added together — a match between gavel and output that is rarely this exact.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. James Comer's cluster into: Government Operations and Politics (22), Congress (3), Transportation and Public Works (3), Commerce (2), Crime and Law Enforcement (2), Labor and Employment (2).
The filings
Pre-payment fraud prevention and Treasury data access, a bill stopping fraudulent payments, a review of the District of Columbia's taxing authority, a marina measure and a local business bill. Several have moved further through the process than most members' filings do.
Of the 46 most recent of those, 40 currently sit at Introduced.
Where he broke ranks
Almost entirely inside the amendment process. Eight of his departures are amendment votes across three spending vehicles, and in most he was supporting changes the conference declined to make. None is a bill at final passage. Whatever disagreement he has with his party is conducted while text is still being written.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 264 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 263 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 258 | Jul 21, 2026 | Agreed to | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 257 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 256 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 255 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8595 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 241 | Jul 15, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8469 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 174 | May 15, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 151 | Apr 30, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 147 | Apr 30, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
Below the Kentucky Republicans
Kentucky's Republican House group carries one of the highest internal averages of any state delegation on this site, driven by a single member who defects far more than anyone else in it. Comer sits well below that average — the figure describes the group, not him.
Among the 5 Republicans in the Kentucky delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 9.4%. James Comer is below that average at 5.5%.
Tenure and attendance
He came to the House through an off-cycle election in the middle of the last decade, which places him mid-scale. He misses few votes.
First elected in 2016, now serving across 6 terms. James Comer falls in the mid cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, James Comer has 51 bills sponsored, 614 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Education and Workforce
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Chair)
- House Committee on Education and Workforce: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- House Committee on Education and Workforce: Workforce Protections
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