Jim Banks
RSen. IN · U.S. Senate · 5 terms
Political perspective
from the voting recordOn the standard liberal–conservative scale, Banks sits more conservative than 88% of the Senate and more liberal than 12%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.
We link to what Bankssays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.
Contact
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Campaign money
live· 2026 cycle“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.
- NORPACOther / unclassified$21K
- MORE JOBS, LESS GOVERNMENTOther / unclassified$10K
- APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ARAPAC)Corporate$10K
- ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ELEVANCE HEALTH PAC)Corporate$10K
- HALL RENDER KILLIAN HEATH & LYMAN PC EMPLOYEE PAC AKA HALLWAY PAC FEDERALCorporate$10K
- A NEW NATION PACOther / unclassified$10K
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BENEFITS AND INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS PAC (NABIP PAC)Trade$7K
- THE MAJORITYOther / unclassified$7K
- Corporate63%
- Trade18%
- Other / unclassified15%
- Membership3%
- Labor0%
Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.
- Finance & banking$44K
- Health & medicine$36K
- Insurance$35K
- Pharma & biotech$32K
- Technology$17K
- Energy & utilities$13K
Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 58% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.
Where the money goes
live· 2026 cycleBanks's campaign has spent $1.7M across 714 reported disbursements.
- Events & fundraising$769K 46%
- Consulting & research$382K 23%
- Advertising & media$253K 15%
- Payroll & admin$235K 14%
- Travel & lodging$39K 2%
- Other$5K 0%
- TAG LLC$464K
- GRAND VALLEY CONSULTING$245K
- AMERICAN EXPRESS$130K
- THE BAKER GROUP$100K
- CFS COMPLIANCE$99K
- NORTH COUNTRY STRATEGIES$76K
- VINLAND RESERVE WINERYFORT WAYNE, IN$13K
- CHICK-FIL-A - FORT WAYNE - INFORT WAYNE, IN$5K
- RESIDENCE INNMERRILLVILLE, IN$4K
- GARMENT FACTORY EVENTSFRANKLIN, IN$4K
- FRESH IDEAS - PURDUE CATERINGFORT WAYNE, IN$2K
- THE ABSTRACTFORT WAYNE, IN$2K
- US SENATE CAFEWASHINGTON, DC · 3 payments$2K
- THE BRADLEY HOTELFORT WAYNE, IN · 2 payments$2K
These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.
Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.
Background
Represents Indiana · age 47 · from Columbia City.
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.
Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.
Stock trades
Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Banks's filings:
Committees
liveWhat they're assigned to work on.
- Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
via congress-legislators committee data.
Who they're up against
Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.
Last election
· 2024 cycle- Valerie L McCrayDemocratOpen seat$142Kraised ↗
- Robert Marc CarmichaelDemocratOpen seat$114Kraised ↗
- Keith PottsDemocratOpen seat$103Kraised ↗
- Andy HorningLIBChallenger$1Kraised ↗
+ 10 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.
Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.
How Jim actually voted · last 15 bills live
- YeaSeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Nomination
- YeaSeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Cloture Motion
- YeaSeptember 17, 2026S. 4668On the Motion to Proceed
- YeaSeptember 15, 2026S. 4668On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- YeaSeptember 15, 2026H.R. 3633On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- YeaSeptember 15, 2026PN1093-3On the Nomination
- YeaSeptember 14, 2026PN1093-3On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 8, 2026S. 5271On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- YeaAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Nomination
- YeaAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 8, 2026H.R. 6500On Passage of the Bill
- NayAugust 8, 2026On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 6747 to S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Motion to Table
- YeaAugust 7, 2026On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 7, 2026PN730-11On the Nomination
- YeaAugust 7, 2026H.R. 5334On Passage of the Bill
Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.
Congressional calendar · next 12 days
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Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through September 17, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.