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Jim Banks

U.S. Senator · Indiana · Republican

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From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.96· expected 1.04

Meets expectations

Rank 43 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 32 majority-party members without a committee lead

How far Banks’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 104
  2. Action in committee 14
  3. Action beyond committee 8
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

104 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 103 substantive, 1 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law inside another bill (1)

Banks’s own bill stalled, but the Congressional Research Service lists an identical bill, or one with similar text, that became law. Shown for context; not counted in the score, which follows the Center for Effective Lawmaking. How this works

How Banks’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Banks.

Banks in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

Attendance

How it’s measured
99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 12 missed of 915

Voted on 903 of 915 roll calls; missed 12. Higher than 69% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 9 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 830 votes that split the parties. Higher than 90% of senators.

75%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
8/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 67% of senators.

0%30%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.65

Republican middle 80%: 0.38 to 0.78

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Banks’s bills that passed the Senate or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Banks’s effectiveness score.

How we count words
  • S. 921 Tyler’s LawUnknown; bill summary not available. AI-readHealth · Introduced Mar 24, 2026Substantive489 words Introduced

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.