Senator · Louisiana

John Kennedy

John Kennedy is a Republican senator from Louisiana, in Congress since 2017. In the 119th Congress, 915 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 16, and cast 820 of 825 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
Current
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2017
Term ends
Jan 3, 2029
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Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

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.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
119th CongressSenate9151.7%16 of 915 · rank 58 of 10199%820 of 825 · rank 44 of 101854 became law19%38 of 205
118th CongressSenate6914.2%29 of 691 · rank 43 of 10187%452 of 518 · rank 88 of 101841 became law26%62 of 238
117th CongressSenate9495.7%54 of 949 · rank 23 of 10092%667 of 723 · rank 78 of 100811 became law27%57 of 213

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 119th Congress (Senate), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.56+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.

  1. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 42–54· Against party
  2. S. 2296: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026Nay
    Oct 9, 2025· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 53–43· Against party
  3. H.R. 82: Social Security Fairness Act of 2023Nay
    Dec 20, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 34–62· Against party
  4. H.R. 82: Social Security Fairness Act of 2023Nay
    Dec 20, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 32–64· Against party
  5. H.R. 82: Social Security Fairness Act of 2023Nay
    Dec 20, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 28–67· Against party
  6. H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
    Apr 19, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 42–50· Against party
  7. H.R. 815: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.Yea
    Feb 13, 2024· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 70–29· Against party
  8. H.R. 815: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.Yea
    Feb 12, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 66–33· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 77–22
  2. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–52
  3. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 49–50
  4. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 42–54· Against party
  5. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 1–94
  6. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 96–1
  7. 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.Nay
    Sep 24, 2026· Senate· Passage· On the Concurrent Resolution· Concurrent Resolution Rejected 49–50
  8. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 24, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 77–23
  9. H.R. 6500: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027Yea
    Aug 8, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 90–6
  10. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Yea
    Aug 7, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 86–11
  11. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Nay
    Aug 7, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 32–64
  12. S.Res. 817: An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.Yea
    Jul 30, 2026· Senate· Passage· On the Resolution· Resolution Agreed to 50–47

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

250 sponsored · 6 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced23092%
  2. Reported by committee31.2%
  3. Passed one chamber104.0%
  4. Became law62.4%
  5. Vetoed10.4%

Policy areas

  1. Finance and Financial Sector50
  2. Health28
  3. Crime and Law Enforcement22
  4. International Affairs19
  5. Education18
  6. Taxation16
  7. Government Operations and Politics11
  8. Law11

Latest activity

  1. S. 5628 Transparency in CFPB Cost-Benefit Analysis Act
    Introduced· Sep 30, 2026
  2. S. 5487 TWICE Act
    Introduced· Transportation and Public Works· Sep 23, 2026
  3. S. 5423 Support Our Educators Act of 2026
    Introduced· Taxation· Sep 17, 2026
  4. S. 5417 AI Emergency Button Act
    Introduced· Sep 16, 2026
  5. S. 4850 Diversity Jurisdiction Inflation Adjustment Act
    Passed one chamber· Law· Aug 10, 2026
  6. S. 5210 Display America's Art Act
    Introduced· Congress· Aug 3, 2026
  7. S. 5085 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply inflation adjustments to the additional hospital insurance tax on high income taxpayers.
    Introduced· Taxation· Jul 22, 2026
  8. S. 5084 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply inflation adjustments to the base amount and adjusted base amount for purposes of determining taxable social security benefits.
    Introduced· Taxation· Jul 22, 2026

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

Current seats

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.

2026 cycle

Raised
$10M
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$18.6M
From committees
$113.8K
44 committees
From contractor PACs
$20K
8 PACs · 18% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
space exploration technologies corp.space exploration technologies corp. pac$10KSPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPAI match · 100% · the same organization$6.6M
eaton corporationeaton corporation public policy association$2,500EATON CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$500
exxon mobil corporationexxon mobil corporation political action committee (exxonmobil pac)$2,500EXXON MOBIL CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
rtx corporationemployees of rtx corporation political action committee$1,000RTX CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$3.9B
l3harris technologies, inc.l3harris technologies, inc. pac$1,000L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$115.4M
health care service corporationhealth care service corporation employees' political action committee$1,000HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION, A MUTUAL LEGAL RESERVE COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization$16M
aecomaecom pac$1,000AECOM SERVICES, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$3.8M
framatome inc.framatome inc pac$1,000FRAMATOME INCAI match · 100% · the same organization$1.9M

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$10M$113.8K$20K8 PACs · 18% of committee money
2024$15.6M-$55.5K$33.5K13 PACs · — of committee money
2022$34.3M$840.3K$225.3K53 PACs · 27% 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.

  1. Senate · LouisianaJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2029
  2. Senate · LouisianaJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2023

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Website
www.kennedy.senate.gov/public
Phone
202-224-4623
Office
437 Russell Senate Office Building
Contact form
Contact form

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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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)
  • 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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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.