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Fabio d6874ca8a6 Close the institutional gap: bodies, committees, leadership
The seat data answered 'who represents this place?' but not 'who runs
this institution?' — the Speaker of the House existed only as the rep
for LA-4. This adds the missing axis of institutional power.

New Body entities (233): the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Executive Office,
49 committees, 181 subcommittees — each with its leadership.

Federal people (532/542) enriched with bioguide IDs, leadership roles,
and committee seats, reconciled from congress-legislators by name.
Mike Johnson is now Speaker of the House, not just LA-4.

Sources ingested directly into the repo (repo-canonical): Atlas
supplied bodies/leadership/committee_memberships via congress-legislators,
committed raw in data/. build.py supersedes convert_officeholders.py and
reads all four inputs in one deterministic pass (byte-identical on rerun).

The 10 unenriched federal records are a finding, not a bug: vacancies,
the President, and ~5 seats where Atlas's roster disagrees with the
authoritative current roster — model-vs-reality discrepancies to surface.

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---
type: Person
title: "Jim Banks"
description: "U.S. Senate - IN — State of Indiana"
role: "U.S. Senate - IN"
party: "R"
level: "federal"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IN"
committees:
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Personnel"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/personnel"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Seapower"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/seapower"
- name: "Senate Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces"
- name: "Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs"
- name: "Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Economic Policy"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/economic-policy"
- name: "Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - National Security and International Trade and Finance"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/national-security-and-international-trade-and-finance"
- name: "Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Securities, Insurance, and Investment"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/securities-insurance-and-investment"
- name: "Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions"
- name: "Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Education and the American Family"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/education-and-the-american-family"
- name: "Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Employment and Workplace Safety"
role: "chair"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/employment-and-workplace-safety"
- name: "Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Primary Health and Retirement Security"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/primary-health-and-retirement-security"
- name: "Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs"
role: "member"
body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/veterans-affairs"
tenure:
start: "2025-01-03"
current: true
election:
next: 2030
term_length: 6
term_limit: "none"
ids:
person: "b234d5e1-7d0e-436d-bbe0-dc628c1f7157"
office: "c7073ec9-58a3-4ac1-9368-07b274230c1d"
tenure: "c11508b5-6b19-45d0-a8ce-92779eab9ab7"
jurisdiction: "10cefaab-f7a5-4c04-bfce-329ac5ec0a32"
bioguide: "B001299"
sources:
- field: tenure
source: "Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20"
- field: jurisdiction
source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction"
- field: roles
source: "congress-legislators (unitedstates project)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, federal, legislative, in]
timestamp: "2026-06-20"
---
# Jim Banks
Current U.S. Senate - IN (State of Indiana).
## Committees
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Personnel](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/personnel.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Seapower](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/seapower.md)
- [Senate Committee on Armed Services - Strategic Forces](/us/bodies/senate/committees/armed-services/subcommittees/strategic-forces.md)
- [Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs](/us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs.md)
- [Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Economic Policy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/economic-policy.md)
- [Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - National Security and International Trade and Finance](/us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/national-security-and-international-trade-and-finance.md)
- [Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Securities, Insurance, and Investment](/us/bodies/senate/committees/banking-housing-and-urban-affairs/subcommittees/securities-insurance-and-investment.md)
- [Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions](/us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions.md)
- [Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Education and the American Family](/us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/education-and-the-american-family.md)
- [Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Employment and Workplace Safety](/us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/employment-and-workplace-safety.md) — **chair**
- [Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Primary Health and Retirement Security](/us/bodies/senate/committees/health-education-labor-and-pensions/subcommittees/primary-health-and-retirement-security.md)
- [Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs](/us/bodies/senate/committees/veterans-affairs.md)
## Sources
- tenure: Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction
- roles: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
Generated from the Atlas officeholders v2 export (2026-06-20).