Jim Banks
Republican · IN · U.S. Senate
Bio
James Edward Banks is an American politician and naval officer serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2025 and an Indiana state senator from 2010 to 2016.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- Chambers
- House 8y, Senate 1.6y
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 70 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 47
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Fort Wayne, IN · 260-321-7130
- Hammond, IN
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $186k – $543k
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$814k – $43k
- Since 2019
- +$157k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 13 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Jim Banks's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Jim Banks (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Bankssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Banks's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Senator launches assault on illegal immigration gaps as GOP races midterm clock to lock in key winsSen. Jim Banks warns Donald Trump's immigration executive orders face erasure without Congress locking seven bills into law before midterms arrive.
Fox News · August 22, 2026
Republican senator urges Trump to back US open-weight AI models amid industry debateBy Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Jim Banks is urging the Trump administration to develop incentives to encourage U.S. tech...
Yahoo Entertainment · August 14, 2026
More GOP senators call for Miller to quit over abuse allegationsUS Senator Jim Banks joined a handful of Republican senators in calling for embattled Representative Max Miller to step down over allegations he physically abused his former wife and his two-year-old daughter. Banks told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that th…
Biztoc.com · August 9, 2026
Mockery abounds after senator mixes up colleagues during live interview: 'Huge if true'A Republican senator was roundly mocked on Sunday after he mixed up two of his colleagues during a live interview. Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) joined Kristen Welker on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, where he was asked whether Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) s…
Raw Story · August 9, 2026
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