Braun is the junior senator from Indiana and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Braun is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 69 years old.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Braun was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. In the days leading up to January 6, 2021’s congressional certification of the election, Braun announced his intent to object to the inclusion of some states from the certification, which would have disenfranchised millions of voters and amplified lies, conspiracy theories, and preposterous legal theories about purported fraud. (He ultimately did not vote to exclude any states from the Electoral College, however.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Sen. Mike Braun [R-IN]](/static/legislator-photos/412839-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Braun.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Braun is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Braun has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 28, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Mike Braun sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Braun was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 4386 (117th): A bill to allow for devices with a predetermined change control plan to be marketed without submitting a supplemental application or premarket notification if the changes to …
- S. 3831 (117th): Apply the Science Act 2.0
- S. 3496 (117th): Promoting ACCESS to Diagnostics Act
- S. 894 (117th): Hire Veteran Health Heroes Act of 2021
- S. 848 (117th): Consider Teachers Act of 2021
- S. 579 (117th): A bill to make a technical correction to the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2019.
- S. 5084 (116th): A bill to increase transparency and access to group health plan and health insurance issuer reporting, and for other purposes.
Does 11 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Braun sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (25%) Economics and Public Finance (18%) Labor and Employment (12%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Education (8%) Taxation (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Braun recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 1023: A bill to establish an advisory committee to inform Congress of the impact …
- S. 1054: A bill to reduce improper payments and eliminate waste in Federal programs, and …
- S. 1021: A bill to prohibit the Export-Import Bank of the United States from providing …
- S. 1051: A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to lower the standard …
- S. 1052: A bill to increase Government accountability for administrative actions by reinvigorating administrative Pay-As-You-Go.
- S. 1022: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to modify the …
- S. 1053: A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the use …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Mar 2023, Braun missed 32 of 1,743 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of Mike Braun for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
