July 20, 2026Methodology v2.2 · Data: BLS, 2010–2025
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Congress › Indiana

Jim Banks

U.S. Senator, Indiana · Republican · in office since Jan. 3, 2025

Jim Banks
U.S. Senator · Indiana · Republican · in the Senate since Jan. 2025
Overall grade · among senators
No. 14 of 91
+0.20σ · 35% of the grade measured
How this grade is built
35%Bills they move (LES)+0.20
30%Indiana: how it moved on their watch0.00
25%Alignment (promises vs. votes)reserved
10%Attendancereserved
Indiana outcomes over their Senate service
CategoryLatestScore vs. peers
Education scale score278.2 ’24Too early
Air quality AQI41 ’24Too early
Water quality % of community systems6.8 ’25Too early
Unemployment %3.7 ’25Too early
Health coverage % of adults 18-648.9 ’24Too early
Tax burden % of personal income6.0 ’24Too early
Energy cost cents/kWh14.8 ’24Too early
Cost of living index, US=10093.3 ’24Too early
Crime deaths per 100,0007.3 ’24Too early
Teen births per 1,000 females 15-1915 ’24Too early
Wellbeing mean days of past 305.2 ’24Too early
Obesity % of adults38.4 ’24Too early
Early literacy % of 4th graders34.7 ’24Too early
Gun deaths deaths per 100,000 (age-adjusted)17.2 ’24Too early
Food-aid access index (higher = easier access)0.6 ’23Too early
Jobless-benefit access % of unemployed receiving UI16.2 ’24Too early
Their own recordValue
Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0
1.12
Missed votes1.3%
Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right (GovTrack)0.72
Promises keptIn human review

A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so they are scored on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — ranked against other senators — alongside their own legislative record. Influence is shared with 99 colleagues and the governor; the score shows relative movement, not sole credit. Methodology v2.2

What Banks voted to fund

These pies aggregate the largest verified spending items — appropriations and mandatory outlays — in the bills Banks cast a recorded vote on, sliced by category, every dollar quoted from the bill text. Authorizations, guarantee ceilings and pay-fors are excluded, exactly as on the bill pages. This shows what the bills contained, by Banks’s own votes — not a claim that Banks wrote the spending or that it did or didn’t work. Click any slice to read the cited line-items.

Voted to fund
2 bills · voted Yea
$7.6Btracked
Voted against
5 bills · voted Nay
$1874.0Btracked

Recorded as present or not voting on: H.R. 3746 (Not Voting). These count toward neither pie.

Voted to fund — every dollar, cited

veterans$6.9B

  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for the 31 FY2023 major medical facility leases — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$1,880,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to enter into enhanced-use leases of VA property (FY2022) — Department of Veterans Affairs$922,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2031) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$650,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2030) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$620,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2029) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$610,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2028) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$600,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Initial mandatory appropriation seeding the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (FY2022) — Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$500,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2027) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$450,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2026) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$400,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2025) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$200,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2024) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$100,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →

health$676.0M

Voted against — every dollar, cited

community & regional development$412.7B

income security$301.3B

transportation$202.9B

education$162.6B

energy$128.0B

other$127.3B

veterans$109.8B

commerce & housing credit$105.8B

health$104.2B

broadband$83.1B

water$40.2B

science$40.0B

defense$31.2B

agriculture$22.3B

environment$2.6B

Federal spending during Banks’s current term

Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of Banks’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money Banks personally directed. A president proposes and Congress appropriates; no single official controls it.

FY25
$7.01T−$1.77T deficit

Source: OMB Historical Tables, Table 1.1 (Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789-present) · figures. Nominal dollars, by fiscal year (Oct–Sep).

How Banks is graded

A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so Banks is graded on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — measured as the change on their watch versus the other 49 states, capped because influence is shared with 99 colleagues, the governor and a world economy — blended with what they personally control: how effectively they move legislation and how they vote. Every part decomposes on the card above, and the “measured” figure says how much of the grade is real versus still reserved.

Legislative Effectiveness Scores come from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which benchmarks each chamber’s average to 1.0. Voting statistics come from GovTrack. The Honesty ledger — promises matched against this member’s votes — publishes only with an evidence trail and two agreeing human reviews.

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