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Lance Gooden

Lance Gooden

Representative· TXRHouse● In officeOn the ballot in 2026
File · Money Read

What the money shows

Lance Gooden has an estimated net worth of -$159,500. The 2026 campaign raised $952,343. Outside groups had $1,115 spent for Lance Gooden. Lance Gooden sits on The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust and Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet.

Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC

Est. net worth
−$160K
−$672K+
Raised (last cycle)
$952K
FEC · 2026
Years in role
7
Representative since 2019
Net-worth filings
6
−$308K since 2019
File A — Net Worth

Net worth over time

Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.

Why negative? Financial disclosures require officials to report mortgages and loans as liabilities, but exclude personal residences and other non-income-producing assets. Someone whose main asset is their home can show a negative disclosednet worth in some years — it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in debt. See methodology.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
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† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.

File C — Service

Term history

  1. RepresentativeTX-5R
    2025 – 2027 · 2 yrs
  2. RepresentativeTX-5R
    2023 – 2025 · 2 yrs
  3. RepresentativeTX-5R
    2021 – 2023 · 2 yrs
  4. RepresentativeTX-5R
    2019 – 2021 · 2 yrs
File D — Benchmark

If they'd just invested 20%

A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.

hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary

Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.