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Roger Marshall
KS · At-large
In plain English: One of Kansas's two U.S. senators. Senators vote on federal laws, confirm judges and cabinet officials, and approve treaties.
Term
2021-01-03 – 2027-01-03
Next election
2026-11-03Seeking a second term. Faces Democrat Adam Hamilton on Nov 3, 2026. Cook Political Report rates the race a Toss Up (moved from Leans Republican on Oct 6, 2026); polls show a tied race. No Democrat has won a Kansas Senate seat since 1932.
Running for
U.S. Senate (KS), 2026
Committees
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Senate Committee on the Budget; Senate Committee on Finance; Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Roger Marshall (R) is the junior U.S. Senator from Kansas, in office since Jan 3, 2021, after serving in the U.S. House for KS-01 (2017-2021). A physician (OB/GYN) by training. He won the Aug 4, 2026 Republican primary with 79.8%. He serves on the Senate committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Budget; Finance; and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. He holds President Trump's "complete and total endorsement."
Bio source: https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/10/19/beyond-tv-ads-what-are-roger-marshall-and-adam-hamilton-running-on/92170172007/
1. Follow the money, in plain English
What we don’t have yet: verified donor records for this leader. Pending donor data source: will be backfilled; never estimated
Every money claim on this page carries its source and its confidence level; the full item-by-item money record is in the evidence below.
2. What they promised
Each promise is tracked against documented votes and actions. A status is set only from the record; where a promise has not been tested yet, the card says so.
- PROMISEOn the record
"I will be on the ballot on Election Day (and) will be honored to represent the people of Kansas for the next six years going forward. It's been the honor of my lifetime." He ruled out accepting a Trump administration appointment for the next two to three years. Status so far: He won the Republican primary on Aug 4, 2026, with 79.8% of the vote.
- PROMISEOn the record
Backs the tariffs championed by Trump, arguing they incentivize U.S. manufacturing and jobs, reduce the trade deficit, and counter unfair trade practices, with benefits expected to be felt over time. He also pushed the Working Families Tax Cuts and No Tax on Overtime provisions folded into the One Big Beautiful Bill. Status so far: He voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on July 1, 2025, and it passed 51-50. On Sept 12, 2026, he said he would fight to keep Bombardier's more than 1,200 Kansas jobs and had already taken that concern to the Oval Office.
3. The evidence
Everything on this page comes from the record below, grouped so you can find things: what they said, what they did, money and influence, and what happened after. Every item carries its date, its source, and the date we last verified it.
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What they said
- STATEMENT
"What I hear from Kansans is, look, I want our families to be safe... Really what's important to them are their traditional Kansas values, values like faith and family and community, education... They see a Democrat party being engulfed by these Democrat socialists, so-called socialists, who keep pulling their party further and further to the left, and it scares them. Kansans don't like this DEI nonsense, and they certainly don't want a senator from Kansas being part of that DEI program they got going on."
- STATEMENT
After Trump threatened to ban sales from Bombardier (a Canadian jet manufacturer employing more than 1,200 people in Wichita), Marshall said Trump was misguided: "I'm going to fight to keep Bombardier's over 1,200 Kansas jobs. I've already taken that concern inside the Oval Office."
- STATEMENT
"Look, this guy is a woke, big megachurch pastor. He's too woke for Kansas. I think all we have to do is share his own sermons ... with the Kansas people, and they're gonna realize that he's too woke for Kansas."
- STATEMENT
Explaining his No vote on a war powers resolution: "I voted against the Democrats' War Powers Resolution, a political ploy to undermine our military operations."
- STATEMENT
Marshall "originally said the Epstein files were 'not his focus.'" His campaign did not respond to requests for comment for that report.
Verification note: Reported speech via public radio; campaign did not respond.
- FACT
The New York Times reported (Sept 2026) that Marshall's former OB/GYN practice sued more than 700 patients over unpaid medical bills, charged 18% interest, and that at least 81 were arrested after missing court dates.
Verification note: NYT reporting as relayed by CNN and USA Today; the underlying NYT piece was not independently pulled in this pass.
- STATEMENT
On the patient-billing reporting: "Those are common, common business practices we would go a year before we would send someone over." The remark drew chants of "Shame on you" from the crowd. His campaign said he treated patients regardless of ability to pay; spokesperson Payton Fuller: "Judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors."
- ALLEGATION
Marshall publicly branded himself against earmarks, telling AP in 2021: "I'm going to do everything I can to blow up the process so that no one does earmarks." He voted four times against earmarks. In 2024 he requested a $4.2 million earmark for a water project on Rattlesnake Creek, beside a ranch he co-owns, without disclosure; in Jan 2026 he again voted to strip earmarks from a spending bill.
Verification note: Reported by a partisan blog attributing the underlying reporting to AP; independently unverified in this pass. Recorded as allegation.
- FACT
Marshall was heckled and jeered by the crowd when he talked about gas prices and the Iran war; Hamilton supporters shouted him down several times, forcing him to pause.
- STATEMENT
On diesel prices: 'The real problem with the cost of diesel in particular is the Ukraine war and because of that diesel production has gone down,' attributing high prices to Ukraine, not the Iran war, and blaming reliance on diesel imports on Green New Deal policies.
- STATEMENT
Opposed separating SNAP from the Farm Bill in practice, saying Democrats are 'focused on food stamps' and there are not votes to separate them.
What they did
- VOTE
H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act Yea on On Passage (Passed 51-50)
- VOTE
S. 5: Laken Riley Act Yea on On Passage (Passed)
- VOTE
Schumer Amdt #3849 to S. 2296: Amendment directing AG to release Epstein documents (FY2026 NDAA) Yea (to table) on Motion to table the amendment (51-49, tabled, amendment killed)
Verification note: Marshall characterized the amendment as a "political stunt" holding servicemembers' pay raise "hostage." In Nov 2025 he did not object when the standalone Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by unanimous consent.
- VOTE
Iran war powers resolutions: War powers resolutions to restrain U.S. military action against Iran Nay on Various (motion to proceed, cloture, passage) (Voted No on multiple 2026 war powers resolutions (tallies 47-53, 53-47, 47-48, 49-50); also voted No on the non-binding resolution that passed 50-48)
Money and influence
- DATA UNAVAILABLE
Pending donor data source: will be backfilled; never estimated
- FACT
Holds President Donald Trump's "complete and total endorsement." Trump posted a lengthy social media endorsement citing Marshall's record on agriculture, taxes, energy, border security, and credit card swipe fees, and shared a Sept 18 video calling Hamilton a radical left candidate. Trump plans to campaign for Marshall in Kansas.
- FACT
Vice President JD Vance campaigned for Marshall in Olathe on Sept 14, 2026 at Webco Manufacturing (with gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson).
What happened after
- OUTCOME
Won the Republican primary with 79.8% (267,887 votes) over Pond Naramore (20.2%). Status: completed
- OUTCOME
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2020 after serving in the U.S. House for KS-01 (2017-2021). Status: completed
No ethics investigations, censures, or formal complaints against Marshall surfaced in the records checked.
Sources
- Topeka Capital-Journal: what the candidates are running on (Oct 19, 2026)
- CNN: Kansas Senate race (Sept 23, 2026)
- AP: Iran war-powers votes (via hutchpost.com)
- KRPS/Kansas News Service: Epstein survivors (Sept 21, 2026)
- IA Project: member accountability (M001198)
- PollingSource: Kansas Senate race page
- KCTV (Oct 21)
- Semblen debate transcript (Oct 21)
Evidence
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