Jim Banks — GovTally

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Defense & Military 2 Government Operations & Budget 2 Healthcare 2 Agriculture 1 Foreign Policy & Trade 1 Labor & Employment 1 Technology & Privacy 1 Veterans Affairs 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
US Senate District Indiana current United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 1, 2030	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 1), IN current Indiana	Republican	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 3, 2031	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IN-3 Indiana	Republican	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2025	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IN-3 United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2023	Nov 5, 2024	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IN-3 Indiana	Republican	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IN-3 United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IN-3 Indiana	Republican	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2021	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IN-3 United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2021	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IN-3 Indiana	Republican	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2019	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IN-3 United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2019	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Armed Services unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Personnel unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Seapower unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Armed Services — Strategic Forces unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Economic Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — National Security and International Trade and Finance unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Securities, Insurance, and Investment unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Education and the American Family unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Employment and Workplace Safety — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.649, social dim. 0.020. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Justin R. Olson to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana	Yea	Feb 5, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Brian Charles Lea, of Tennessee, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee	Yea	Feb 5, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Brian Charles Lea to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee	Yea	Feb 4, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Megan Blair Benton, of Missouri, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Missouri	Yea	Feb 4, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Megan Blair Benton to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Missouri	Yea	Feb 4, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Aaron Christian Peterson, of Alaska, to be United States District Judge for the District of Alaska	Yea	Feb 4, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Aaron Christian Peterson to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Alaska	Yea	Feb 3, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Nicholas Jon Ganjei, of Texas, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas	Yea	Feb 3, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Nicholas Jon Ganjei to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas	Yea	Feb 3, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: David Clay Fowlkes, of Arkansas, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas	Yea	Feb 3, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: David Clay Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas	Yea	Feb 2, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jan 30, 2026	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Merkley Amdt. No. 4287	Nay	Jan 30, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Sanders Amdt. No. 4290	Nay	Jan 30, 2026	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Table Lee Amdt. No. 4286	Nay	Jan 30, 2026	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Table Lee Amdt. No. 4234	Nay	Jan 30, 2026	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Table Lee Amdt. No. 4236	Nay	Jan 30, 2026	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Paul Amdt. No. 4272	Yea	Jan 30, 2026	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jan 29, 2026	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 3627 — Pregnant Students’ Rights Act	Yea	Jan 27, 2026	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jan 15, 2026	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jan 15, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 98 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been…	Yea	Jan 14, 2026	Point of Order Well Taken	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 84 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the…	Nay	Jan 13, 2026	Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jan 12, 2026	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,124 recorded contributions totalling $12,873,631. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 899 of 1124 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Super PAC	93	$7,902,946	61%
Big donor	558	$1,890,839	15%
Corporate PAC	226	$1,575,024	12%
Party	21	$633,873	5%
Small-dollar	1	$120	0%
Unclassified	225	$870,830	7%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$1,500,256	—	DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS	Super PAC	Feb 22, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,500,256	—	DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS	Super PAC	Feb 22, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,500,256	—	DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS	Super PAC	Feb 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,500,256	—	DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS	Super PAC	Feb 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$270,860	—	CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION	Super PAC	Oct 3, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$270,860	—	CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION	Super PAC	Oct 3, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$199,945	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Sep 26, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$199,183	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Oct 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$199,183	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Oct 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$103,000	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Nov 8, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$103,000	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Nov 8, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$89,175	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Apr 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$89,175	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Apr 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$85,962	BANKS VICTORY FUND	BANKS FOR SENATE	unclassified	Sep 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$83,289	—	AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC	Super PAC	Oct 6, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.