James Comer
U.S. Representative for Kentucky
James Richardson Comer Jr. was born in August 1972 in Carthage, Tennessee. He received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Western Kentucky University and then started a family farm of 2,300 acres. He is also co-owner of a land and cattle company and served as a director of the South Central Bank for 12 years.
Comer was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives and was later elected Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky. He also served as chair of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission. He lost an election for Kentucky governorship by a thin margin.
He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming office in November 2016.
He is married to Tamara Jo (TJ) Comer, and they have three children. He is a Baptist.
In the News…
Chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, issued a subpoena to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security for intelligence reports, documents, and communications regarding whistleblower accounts of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Chair Comer wrote, “Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees—titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’—that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation. The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS.”
Representative Comer’s letter continued, “The Committee’s investigation of the CCP—begun long before Governor Walz was elevated to be the vice-presidential candidate for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris—seeks to understand the extent of the CCP’s infiltration and influence campaign and to identify legislative reforms to combat CCP political warfare targeting prominent Americans for elite capture.“
He added, “If a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed.“
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable James Comer
Representative for Kentucky
2410 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
