Jim Banks
Republican · IN · U.S. Senate
Record of service
- In office
- 9.7 years
- Chambers
- House 8y, Senate 1.7y
- 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
'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect KidsSince Republicans in the US Senate this week blocked a bill to make school bus stops off-limits for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, community members in Pennsylvania and Austin, Texas have expressed outrage by arrests made in front of children—in at l…
Common Dreams · October 2, 2026
Massive ICE sweep fuels GOP push to lock Trump immigration crackdown into lawHoosier Sen. Jim Banks says a five-day ICE operation netting 426 arrests in Indiana proves why Trump's mass deportation agenda must become law.
Fox News · September 27, 2026
Republicans already plotting downfall of GOP's heir apparentPresident Donald Trump's presumed heir holds a commanding lead in early polling for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, but a growing lineup of Senate Republicans is already laying the groundwork to challenge him.A Bowling Green State University/YouG…
Raw Story · September 22, 2026
Bipartisan frustration builds as Senators seek transparency from PentagonWASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military's priorities, with both Democrats and Republicans accusing a Defense Department leader of being frustratingly opaque. …
Yahoo Entertainment · September 17, 2026
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