U.S. Representative — Indiana's 4th District
James Baird
Republican · Indiana
Republican U.S. Representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (44 on record)
- H.R.9663 — State Standing Committee Act (Introduced, Jul 14, 2026)
- H.R.8918 — BIO-SCALE Act (Introduced, May 20, 2026)
- H.R.8648 — FORGE Act (Introduced, May 4, 2026)
- H.R.8212 — Tech Diplomacy Training Act (Introduced, Apr 9, 2026)
- H.R.8036 — Interagency Coordination in Export Controls Act of 2026 (Reported, Mar 24, 2026)
- H.R.7936 — Bioindustrial Scale-Up for Supply Chains and Energy Resiliency Act of 2026 (Introduced, Mar 16, 2026)
- H.R.7194 — Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act (Introduced, Jan 21, 2026)
Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act This bill authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Nicholas Dockery (formerly known as Kareem N. Dockery), for his acts of valor on October 2, 2012, as a member of the Army while serving in Afghanistan, for which he was previously awarded the Silver… - H.R.7024 — Hemp Planting Predictability Act (Introduced, Jan 13, 2026)
Hemp Planting Predictability Act This bill extends by two years the implementation of changes to the regulation of hemp products, which reimpose certain federal controls over some hemp products. Specifically, Congress enacted the FY2026 agriculture appropriations act (P.L. 119-37) on November 12…
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.9307 — Web of Biological Data Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 22, 2026)
- H.R.8866 — Build to Scale Reauthorization Act of 2026 (Introduced, May 15, 2026)
- H.R.1004 — Love Lives On Act of 2025 (Introduced, May 14, 2026)
- H.R.8737 — Never Fight Alone Act (Introduced, May 13, 2026)
- H.R.327 — Valor Earned Not Stolen Act of 2025 (Introduced, Jan 15, 2025)
- H.J.Res.20 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters". (Signed into law, Jan 15, 2025)
- H.R.234 — HOV Lanes for Heroes Act (Introduced, Jan 14, 2025)
- H.R.342 — Honor Inauguration Day Act (Introduced, Jan 14, 2025)
Voting analysis
One of James Baird's bills would train diplomats in technology. Tech diplomacy is a real and fairly new job — the work of negotiating standards, export rules and research access with other governments — and it needs people who understand both the equipment and the treaty. A bill creating training for it is an admission that the foreign service was not built for this.
Of all 44, 41 currently sit at Introduced.
A companion filing addresses interagency coordination in export controls, which is the same problem from the administrative side. International affairs accordingly lead his classified subjects, ahead of defence and science, despite his committee post sitting at Agriculture — he is vice chair of the conservation, research and biotechnology panel, whose chairman and ranking member both have pages here.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. James Baird's cluster into: International Affairs (10), Armed Forces and National Security (7), Science, Technology, Communications (6), Agriculture and Food (3), Energy (3), Environmental Protection (3).
The remaining bills cover a state standing committee, and two carrying acronyms — one of which points at biotechnology scale-up.
Three departures
All three are amendment votes, two of which carried. Nothing that reached final passage appears in his record at all, and three is a very low count for these pages.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 275 | Jul 22, 2026 | Agreed to | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8469 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 174 | May 15, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment, as Modified roll call 150 | Apr 30, 2026 | Agreed to | Aye (party: Nay) |
Below the Indiana Republicans
He departs less often than the state's seven-member Republican House group does on average.
Among the 7 Republicans in the Indiana delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 2.5%. James Baird is below that average at 1.5%.
Tenure and attendance
This is his fourth term, begun as the last decade ran out. He is absent from a good deal more roll calls than most members here.
First elected in 2019, now serving across 4 terms. James Baird falls in the mid cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, James Baird has 44 bills sponsored, 1078 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Agriculture
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- House Committee on Agriculture: Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology (Vice Chair)
- House Committee on Agriculture: Forestry and Horticulture
- House Committee on Agriculture: Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Agriculture: Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Africa
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Oversight and Intelligence
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Energy
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Research and Technology
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