Member of Congress · 119th Congress

James R. Baird

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · IndianaHouse 2019–now (IN-4)

James Baird is a Republican U.S. representative from Indiana, in Congress since 2019, who voted with most Republicans on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 1 bill become law since 2019.

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45Bills & resolutions sponsored116th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

2Passed a chamberof 40 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

1Became law1 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 116th–119th Congress · 1 this Congress

13Broke with partyof 632 yes/no votes, 119th (2.1%)

42Missed votesof 675 roll calls, 119th (6.2%)

$0Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: none on record

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Passage — PROOF Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed

5 most recent bills

H.R. 10795 Sudan IMPACT Act
Oct 13, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
H.R. 9663 State Standing Committee Act
Jul 14, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
H.R. 8918 BIO-SCALE Act
May 20, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently…
H.R. 7024 Hemp Planting Predictability Act
May 20, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
H.R. 7010 To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2026, to delay the implementation of…
May 20, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 7194 (119th) Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act
Became law
H.R. 4824 (118th) Carbon Sequestration Collaboration Act
Passed a chamber
H.R. 8345 (118th) No Official Palestine Entry Act of 2024
Reported from committee
H.R. 9466 (118th) AI Development Practices Act of 2024
Reported from committee
H.R. 8036 (119th) Interagency Coordination in Export Controls Act of 2026
Reported from committee
H.R. 621 (118th) PART Act
83 cosponsors
H.R. 5221 (119th) PART Act
74 cosponsors
H.R. 41 (118th) VA Same-Day Scheduling Act of 2023
71 cosponsors

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

House Committee on Agriculture
Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology, Forestry and Horticulture, Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Africa, Oversight and Intelligence
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Energy, Research and Technology

Elections Rep. Baird has won

Rep. Baird has won 4 U.S. House elections (2018–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 28.1 to 36.4 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won4 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 28.1 points2018, IN-4

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 4 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Indiana’s 4th districtWinners, most recent three: Stephen Buyer (R) 2002–2008 → Todd Rokita (R) 2010–2016 → James R. Baird (R) 2018–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Indiana’s 4th district done while Rep. Baird served?

2022 to 2024 in IN-4: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 1.0 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

IN-4: $77.9K in 2022 → $78.4K in 2024

IN-4 about the sameIndiana about the sameU.S. up 2%

Share of people below the poverty line

IN-4: 10.7% in 2022 → 10.8% in 2024

IN-4 about the sameIndiana about the sameU.S. down 0.4 points

Share of workers looking for a job

IN-4: 2.5% in 2022 → 3.5% in 2024

IN-4 up 1.0 pointsIndiana up 0.5 pointsU.S. up 0.4 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Indiana’s 4th district during Baird’s time representing it (2019 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Only one set of district lines is shown. IN-4 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2022 to 2024 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2019 to now.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Danville office355 S Washington St, Suite 210, Danville, IN 46122-1779
Phone 317-563-5567 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries B001307-danville (1 office)
Published at: https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date: September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, baird.house.gov.

Federal figures for IN-4

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s district. The full table, sources and notes are on the district page.

158,305people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'IN - OASDI', row 9
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

8,684people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'IN - SSI', row 10
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$317,870,787VA direct expenditures attributed to this district, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, CD Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'CD Direct Exp', row 158, code IN04
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the IN-4 page, with notes →

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Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 16 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	16	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	16	See the 16 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	1	See the 1 →
With a committee report listed	0	None listed

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields: cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed: October 25, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.