Victoria Spartz
U.S. House · IN-5 · Republicans · since 2025
alsoCandidate for U.S. House · IN-5
Biography
Overview
Victoria Spartz is a Ukrainian-born Republican U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district, first elected in 2020. She is the first Ukrainian-born person to serve in the U.S. Congress. Before her election to the House, Spartz served in the Indiana State Senate starting in 2017. She has a background in business, accounting, and real estate, holding CPA and real estate broker licenses in Indiana. Spartz was born in 1978 in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in 2000, becoming a U.S. citizen in 2006.
Career
Spartz has focused her legislative efforts on health care competition, sponsoring bills to combat hospital monopolies and promote patient choice. She introduced the Stop Anticompetitive Healthcare Act with Representative Pramila Jayapal. She has also championed agricultural issues, particularly concerning right to repair for farm equipment and transparency in commodity checkoff programs. On foreign policy, Spartz visited Ukraine twice in April 2022 as one of the first U.S. officials to visit after Russia's invasion, and has been critical of Ukrainian leadership's preparedness and accountability. She has expressed strong opposition to socialism, shaped in part by her experience in Soviet Ukraine.
Prior political experience
Spartz first ran for Indiana's 5th congressional district in 2020 after incumbent Susan Brooks announced her retirement. She won the Republican primary on June 2, 2020, and defeated Democratic nominee Christina Hale in the general election by approximately 4 percent—the closest race in the district since 1983. She won her home county of Hamilton by over 20,000 votes, exceeding her district-wide margin of nearly 17,000 votes. In 2022, following redistricting that made the district more Republican, Spartz ran unopposed in the primary and defeated Democratic nominee Jeanine Lee Lake in the general election. In 2024, after initially announcing retirement in February 2023 and then reversing course in December 2023, she confirmed her intent to run for re-election and won the Republican primary on May 7, outperforming her main challenger despite being outspent.
Biographical material adapted from the Wikipedia article (retrieved April 29, 2026), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ideology
Liberal–Conservative (DW-NOMINATE dim 1)
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| Term | Seat | Term dates | Termination | Predecessor | Successor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | U.S. House IN-5 | 2025–present | In progress | Victoria Spartz | — |
| 2nd | U.S. House IN-5 | 2023–2025 | Term ended | Victoria Spartz | Victoria Spartz |
| 1st | U.S. House IN-5 | 2021–2023 | Term ended | — | Victoria Spartz |
Committee assignments
- joint· 2025–present
Current term legislation
Bills sponsored this term10
- H.R. 7849
Farm Equipment Safety Act
Mar 5, 2026IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 7850
Farm Freedom to Repair Act
Mar 5, 2026IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 7851
Checkoff Transparency Act
Mar 5, 2026IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3222
SMART Health Care Act
May 6, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3020
Addressing Anti-Competitive Health Care Contract Clauses Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3019
Holding Nonprofit Hospitals Accountable Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3017
Measuring State Healthcare Freedom Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3018
Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3016
Combatting Hospital Monopolies Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3022
Restoring Rights of Physicians to Own Hospitals Act
Apr 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE
Bills cosponsored this term10
- H.R. 5582
Patients Deserve Price Tags Act
Sep 26, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 4668
End the Vaccine Carveout Act
Jul 23, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 4700
PRIME Act
Jul 23, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 4117
Fuel Emissions Freedom Act
Jun 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 4091
LEDGER Act
Jun 24, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3941
To repeal the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019.
Jun 12, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3497
Medal of Sacrifice Act
May 19, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3321
Ending Medicaid Discrimination Against the Most Vulnerable Act
May 9, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 3289
Fiscal Commission Act
May 8, 2025IN_COMMITTEE - H.R. 2548
Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
Apr 1, 2025IN_COMMITTEE
Elections
| Year | Seat | Result | Vote share | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | U.S. House IN-5 | Pending | 56.60% |
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