Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Jim Banks released the following statement after the unprecedented decision by Speaker Pelosi to reject Reps. Banks and Jordan from being seated on the Select Committee to investigate January 6: “I’m a sitting member of Congress and served my country in Afghanistan and the Speaker knows how hard I will fight for my country. We said all along that this was a… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy appointed Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) to serve as the Republican ranking member on Speaker Pelosi’s Select Committee to investigate January 6. Here is Banks’s reaction statement: “I have accepted Leader McCarthy's appointment to this committee because we need leaders who will force the Democrats and the media to answer… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) announced he will host a Service Academy Day at the Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base on Saturday, July 17. Said Rep. Banks: “Students and their parents and/or guardians will have the extraordinary opportunity to meet representatives from each the five service academies. I am proud that young Hoosiers and their families are… Read more »

FORT WAYNE – Today, Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) announced that five students from Indiana’s Third Congressional District have accepted appointments to the U.S. Service Academies’ Class of 2025. Said Rep. Banks: “These five young Hoosier have already displayed remarkable leadership ability, hard work and most of all, patriotism. Over the next four years they’ll undergo a… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) joined the Claremont Institute for a panel discussion on “What to do about Woke Capital.” The other members of the panel included: Arthur Milikh, Executive Director, the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life; David Azerrad, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Hillsdale… Read more »

FORT WAYNE- Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) will continue with an electronic submission process for the 2021 Congressional Art Competition.  This competition is open to all high school students in Indiana’s 3rd District. The artwork that wins our district competition will be displayed for one year in the U.S. Capitol. The winner will receive two tickets to Washington D.C. from Southwest… Read more »

WASHINGTON--Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced the Countering Chinese Propaganda Act.     The bill is based on recommendations from the Republican Study Committee’s National Security Strategy and authorizes sanctions against the United Front Work Department (UFWD), which is an overseas influence arm of the… Read more »

WASHINGTON—Today, Republican Study Committee Chairman and Armed Services Committee Member Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced several pieces of legislation to counter the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Banks will be joined by several Republican Study Committee members who are introducing a flurry of legislation this week to push back against the Chinese Communist Party and secure… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Republican Study Committee Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) will introduce a resolution on Thursday expressing the sense of the U.S. House of Representatives that schools across the country should be open for in-person instruction. “For nearly a year now, our country’s leading experts have gathered data on the effects of COVID-19 as well as the consequences of… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee Jim Banks will introduce a bill that would block the Biden administration from undoing the Trump’s administration’s “Protect Life Rule.” The “Protect Life Rule” ensured entities that received funds from the Title X Family Planning Funding Program were in a physically separate location than an operation that performed… Read more »