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Jim Banks Republican · IN

Senate · in office · serving since 2017 · born July 16, 1979

Transactions 57 across 20 filings
Securities traded 7 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $113,057 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 57 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Campaign money 2030 cycle

Raised $2,291,159
From individuals $778,357
From PACs $491,269
Cash on hand $3,120,254

Campaign finance from the FEC, shown as context beside the trading record. We do not draw a line from any donor to any trade: the FEC's donor data cannot support that honestly, and inventing the link would be the kind of unsourced inference this site refuses. Read the two together and judge for yourself.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
Senator, IN 119th 2025–2031 moved to the Senate
IN-3 115th–118th 2017–2025 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
Senate Committee on Armed Services Member 12 majority
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 10 majority
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Member 9 majority
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 9 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thHouse Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
117thHouse Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2021-03 → 2022-11
116thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thHouse Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
115thHouse Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Education and Workforce Member 2018-07 → 2018-12
115thHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Member 2017-01 → 2018-05
115thHouse Committee on Veterans' Affairs Member 2017-01 → 2018-12

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

7 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A Common Stock… Software & IT Services 14 8 / 6 $161,007 2021-06 → 2025-06
YUM Yum! Brands Company: Yum ?(Louisville, … Retail & Consumer 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2024-08 → 2025-02
PTON Peloton Interactive, Inc. - Common Stoc… Consumer Goods 4 4 / 0 $56,502 2021-11 → 2023-06
F Ford Motor Company Common Stock (F) Automotive 6 4 / 2 $48,003 2020-08 → 2021-09
SBUX Starbucks Corporation - Common Stock Retail & Consumer 9 3 / 6 $72,005 2020-03 → 2021-09
KR Kroger Company (KR) Retail & Consumer 9 4 / 5 $72,005 2020-08 → 2021-09
PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) 6 3 / 3 $48,003 2020-09 → 2020-09

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2021 -6.0% 25 $273,513
2020 -0.7% 15 $120,008

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2025-08-04 starbuck buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2025-06-16 RBLX RBLX sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2025-02-18 YUM Yum! Brands Company: Yum ?(Louisville, KY) Description:?Food sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2024-08-08 YUM Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2023-06-09 PTON Peloton Interactive, Inc. (PTON) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-19 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-15 PTON Peloton Interactive, Inc. (PTON) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-11-12 PTON Peloton Interactive, Inc. (PTON) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-11-12 PTON Peloton Interactive, Inc. (PTON) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-09 Roblox Corporation Class A sell $15,001+ self
2021-11-09 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-11-02 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-10-26 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) sell $15,001 – $50,000 self
2021-09-30 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-09-28 F Ford Motor Company (F) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-09-13 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-09-09 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-09-02 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-09-02 KR Kroger Company (KR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-08-30 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-08-30 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-08-25 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-08-25 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-25 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-25 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-06-25 RBLX Roblox Corporation Class A (RBlX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-22 KR Kroger Company (KR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-22 KR Kroger Company (KR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2021-06-22 KR Kroger Company (KR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-05-20 KR Kroger Company (KR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2021-04-05 KR Kroger Company (KR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2020-12-18 SuBHOlDINg OF: Schwab IRA buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-11-24 FIlINg STATuS: New buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-11 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-09 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-03 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-03 SuBHOldINg OF: Schwab IRA buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-03 SuBHOldINg OF: Schwab IRA sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-02 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-02 KR Kroger Company (KR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-02 KR Kroger Company (KR) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-01 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-01 PASO Patient Access Solutions Inc. (PASO) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-01 SuBHOldINg OF: Schwab IRA sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-01 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-09-01 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-08-28 KR Kroger Company (KR) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-08-28 F Ford Motor Company (F) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-08-26 F Ford Motor Company (F) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-08-25 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-08-19 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-07-29 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-07-29 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 self
2020-05-18 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2020-04-24 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2020-04-17 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2020-03-27 SBUX Starbucks Corporation (SBuX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 joint