LaTurner is the representative for Kansas’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. LaTurner is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 35 years old.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
LaTurner was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, LaTurner voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Jacob “Jake” LaTurner [R-KS2]](/static/legislator-photos/456824-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for LaTurner.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
LaTurner is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills LaTurner has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 21, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Jacob “Jake” LaTurner sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
LaTurner sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (100%)
Recently Introduced Bills
LaTurner recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1551: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to implement a minimum …
- H.R. 1550: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to restore and standardize …
- H.R. 1552: To amend title 18, United States Code, to require affirmative consent from the …
- H.R. 9684 (117th): Kansas Indian Country Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 2022
- H.R. 8014 (117th): Jobs and Opportunities for Medicaid Act
- H.R. 6871 (117th): DHS Acquisition Reform Act
- H.Res. 904 (117th): Commending and congratulating the Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens men’s basketball team …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Mar 2023, LaTurner missed 11 of 1,143 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of Rep. LaTurner for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
