Former representative · Kansas's 2nd district
Jake LaTurner
Jake LaTurner served in Congress from 2021 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Kansas's 2nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 36, and cast 743 of 825 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 3, 2021
- Last term ended
- Jan 3, 2025
Record by Congress
Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.
| Congress | Roll calls | Missed | Votes with party | Sponsored | Cosponsored across the aisle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,222 | 2.9%36 of 1,222 · rank 181 of 442 | 90%743 of 825 · rank 372 of 442 | 130 became law | 12%28 of 232 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 1.1%11 of 997 · rank 203 of 443 | 98%555 of 567 · rank 237 of 443 | 70 became law | 23%70 of 299 |
Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)
Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.
Liberal −1+0.47+1 Conservative
Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/
Votes against their party
The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–267· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 147–269· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–268· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–272· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 146–264· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 158–257· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–273· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 144–277· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
- Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
- S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNot votingDec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
20 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced1995%
- Passed one chamber15.0%
Policy areas
- Health5
- Agriculture and Food2
- Government Operations and Politics2
- Native Americans2
- Science, Technology, Communications2
- Taxation2
- Armed Forces and National Security1
- Crime and Law Enforcement1
Latest activity
- H.R. 7599 Rural Emergency Hospital Adjustment ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 6344 Simon Crosier ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 2959 Health Savings Act of 2023Introduced· Taxation· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 9839 To amend title 39, United States Code, to modernize the Postal Service regulations, and for other purposes.Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 25, 2024
- H.R. 7380 PURR Act of 2024Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Feb 16, 2024
- H.R. 6991 To designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas, as the "Captain Elwin Shopteese VA Clinic".Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jan 30, 2024
- H.R. 6823 Kelsey Smith ActIntroduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Dec 15, 2023
- H.R. 5878 Quindaro Townsite National Historic Landmark ActIntroduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Oct 3, 2023
Committees
Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.
No committee seats are listed.
Federal contracts in the district
Contract obligations attributed to Kansas's 2nd district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $879.2M
- Per resident
- $1,178
- Rank in Kansas
- 2 of 4
- Contract actions
- 18.7K
- New awards: 16.4K
By fiscal year
- 508.7MFY2017
- 578.9MFY2018
- 720.2MFY2019
- 910.1MFY2020
- 788.3MFY2021
- 1BFY2022
- 882.6MFY2023
- 1.1BFY2024
- 884MFY2025
- 879.2MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of Veterans Affairs$467M53%
- Department of the Army$215.3M24%Department of Defense
- Defense Logistics Agency$49.8M5.7%Department of Defense
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$43.5M4.9%Department of Homeland Security
- Environmental Protection Agency$40.8M4.6%
- Federal Acquisition Service$11.3M1.3%General Services Administration
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
Top recipients
- ORACLE HEALTH GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.$276.7M31%25 awards
- FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION$73.9M8.4%4 awards
- SERCO INC$54.3M6.2%9 awards
- 1 award
- CORECIVIC, INC.$37.7M4.3%3 awards
- BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$23.4M2.7%1 award
- NEMEAN TRIDEUM JOINT VENTURE LLC$19.8M2.2%1 award
- FORT RILEY UTILITY SERVICES INC$14.5M1.6%1 award
- FACILITY SERVICES MANAGEMENT, INC.$13.5M1.5%2 awards
- TORCH RESEARCH, LLC$12M1.4%1 award
Campaign money
What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.
2024 cycle
- Raised
- $923.9K
- through Dec 31, 2024
- Cash on hand
- $213.6K
- From committees
- $291.3K
- 122 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $73K
- 30 PACs · 25% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf
Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024
| PAC sponsor | Given | Matched contract recipient | Its contracts, FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| united parcel service, inc.united parcel service, inc. pac (upspac) | $5,000 | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $685.7K |
| honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee | $5,000 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $260.5M |
| deere & companydeere & company pac (aka john deere pac) | $5,000 | DEERE & COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization | $10.2M |
| space exploration technologies corp.space exploration technologies corp. pac | $5,000 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPAI match · 100% · the same organization | $6.6M |
| spirit aerosystems, inc.spirit aerosystems, inc. pac | $5,000 | SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS INCAI match · 100% · the same organization | $4.3M |
| northrop grumman corporationemployees of northrop grumman corporation pac | $4,000 | NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $1.1B |
| parsons corporationparsons corporation political action committee | $3,000 | PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $748M |
| at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac) | $3,000 | AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family | -$3,412 |
| aerovironment, inc.aerovironment, inc pac | $3,000 | AEROVIRONMENT, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | -$4.3M |
| american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac) | $2,500 | AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $923.9K | $291.3K | $73K30 PACs · 25% of committee money |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $351.2K | $69K22 PACs · 20% of committee money |
Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.
Terms
Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.
- House · Kansas's 2nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
- House · Kansas's 2nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
Identifiers
The same member in other public records.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
- Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
- Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
- Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.