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Republican · Arkansas House, district 99

Serving since Jan 10, 2011AR 2025–26 session

Portrait of Lane Jean, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
97%
of State House Republicans score to the right of Jean on the CSIP scale

CSIP score −0.07 (approximate range −0.13 to −0.02, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 0 donors and 276 roll calls.

CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Jean sits among State House Republicans, not how far from the centre.

At a glance

2 measures against State House Republicans. 63% of the 16 bills Jean sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Arkansas House.

The measures on which Jean sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

CSIP ideology

−0.07

More liberal than 97% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05

Out of committee

63%

Arkansas House average 56% · ranks 35th of 81

Statements

No statements in this window

Bills sponsored

16

and 22 cosponsored

In office since

2011

Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Jean, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Jean is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Jean says

No statements for the AR 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Policy

No policy statements for the AR 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

Jean sits at −0.07 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 97% of State House Republicans. Approximate range −0.13 to −0.02, which understates the uncertainty; from 0 donors and 276 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

−0.07

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.13 to −0.02. From 0 donors and 276 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Jean −0.1State House Republicans +0.4Arkansas House +0.1All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Jean, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Jean’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Jean sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Jean −0.1Arkansas Housemedian +0.1All State Housemedian +0.1
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Jean's CSIP score of −0.07 placed against State House Republicans, Arkansas House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Jean
State House Republicans2917+0.43%
Arkansas House97+0.122%
All State House5324+0.146%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Jean in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Jean.

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Money

No campaign-finance data.No campaign-finance records are matched to this official.

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Votes

No roll-call votes for the AR 2025–26 session.No roll-call votes are recorded for this official in this time window.

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Legislation

Jean sponsored 16 bills in the AR 2025–26 session; 10 became law. Cosponsored 22 others. 63% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arkansas House average 56%; 35th of 81).

The bills Jean sponsored and cosponsored in the AR 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the AR 2025–26 session

Sponsored16 billsSponsored, Introduced: 1616Sponsored, In committee: 1616Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1010Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 1010Sponsored, Became law: 1010Cosponsored22 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 2222Cosponsored, In committee: 2222Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 1414Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1414Cosponsored, Became law: 1414IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Jean sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored1616101010
Cosponsored2222141414
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Jean sponsored, ochre blocks bills Jean cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

63%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Arkansas House average 56%. Ranks 35th of 81.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Jean, by number of shared bills in the AR 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Steve Crowell5
  2. Jonathan Dismang4
  3. Brad Hall2
  4. Carol Dalby2
  5. Howard Beaty2
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Jean’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HB 1001TO REDUCE THE INCOME TAX RATES FOR INDIVIDUALS, TRUSTS, ESTATES, AND CORPORATIONS.CosponsorMay 1, 2026Became lawTaxation(model)Notification that HB1001 is now Act 1 May 6, 2026
HB 1100TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW; TO CREATE FUNDS; TO MAKE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM FUNDS AND FUND ACCOUNTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.SponsorApr 17, 2026Became lawEconomics and Public Finance(model)Notification that HB1100 is now Act 143 Apr 29, 2026
HR 1005AUTHORIZING THE INTRODUCTION OF A NONAPPROPRIATION BILL TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW, TO CREATE FUNDS, AND TO MAKE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM FUNDS AND FUND ACCOUNTS.SponsorApr 3, 2026In committeeEconomics and Public Finance(model)READ AND ADOPTED. Apr 15, 2026
HR 1004TO AUTHORIZE THE INTRODUCTION OF A NONAPPROPRIATION BILL TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW, TO CREATE FUNDS, AND TO MAKE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM FUNDS AND FUND ACCOUNTS.SponsorApr 3, 2026In committeeEconomics and Public Finance(model)READ AND ADOPTED. Apr 15, 2026
SB 636AN ACT TO TRANSFER FUNDS; DEFINE THE MONIES TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE RESTRICTED RESERVE FUND; AND ALLOW ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR STATE DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AND EMERGENCY.SponsorApr 9, 2025Became lawEconomics and Public Finance(model)Notification that SB636 is now Act 1017 Apr 23, 2025

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Online

A site that changed 3 times in 90 days. Jean’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Jean’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Jean posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Jean posted

No images from Jean’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

418 turns, Jan 28, 2021 to May 29, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Jean is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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