WASHINGTON – After Senate Democrats filibustered the Pain Capable Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Rep. Jim Banks, member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, released the following statement: “Democrats in the House and Senate are completely out of step with mainstream America’s respect for the sanctity of human life. Today, Democrats blocked the Pain Capable U... Read more »
The following is a Google translation of Chinese-language "People's Daily" (05 October 2017). "In human life, if there is an opportunity to serve the motherland, such responsibility and honor cannot be compared to anything." He, once a well-known person on Wall Street in the United States, managed the largest public retirement fund in North America. Two years ago, he gave up the comfortable life ... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03), member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, introduced a bill to realign chaplains at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) directly under the VA Secretary. The bill is designed to create consistent religious policies across the VA, improve access to pastoral counseling and instruct the VA to install a Chief of Chaplains position that functi... Read more »
The following op-ed appeared at FoxNews.com on February 12, 2020. In 2017, Speaker Pelosi famously cajoled Republicans to produce a budget, warning “show me your budget, show me your values.” She was understood to mean that you can learn about someone’s deepest convictions judging the way in which they spend their money. Ironically, she and her party never produced a budget when they regained cont... Read more »
The following op-ed appeared at TheHill.com on February 12, 2020. While impeachment, Iowa and the State of the Union dominate headlines, House Democrat leaders are quietly trying to overturn the single biggest victory for the “Drain the Swamp” campaign in the last decade – the earmarks ban. The moniker “earmarks” denotes a practice where House leaders buy members’ votes by guaranteeing funding for... Read more »
Washington, DC – Congressmembers Jim Banks (R-IN-03), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-09), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ-07), Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08) and Brad Sherman (D-CA-30) introduced the bipartisan Preventing Foreign CENSORSHIP in America Act (Preventing the Foreign Coercive Export of Non-Consensual Speech and Orwellian Restrictions by Superpowers Hoping to Intimidate People in America Act). This landmark leg... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03), member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, sent a letter today to California Governor Gavin Newsom urging him to investigate California Public Employees' Retirement System’s (CalPERS) Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Yu Ben Meng, for his ties to the Chinese Communist Party and suspicious investment decisions. “In his remarks last week, Secretary P... Read more »
WASHINGTON – After the president released his annual budget request to Congress, Rep. Banks, chair of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, released the following statement: “While Speaker Pelosi seemingly cannot produce a budget, President Trump is not afraid to put his cards on the table. Today, he’s announced A Budget for America’s Future. I can endorse it as pro-work... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) and Senator Tom Cotton (AR), with 33 of their colleagues, sent a letter to Attorney General Barr urging him to investigate state-owned China Daily for apparent FARA violations. “China Daily is a disgusting propaganda rag that’s used by the Chinese Communist Party to cover for the regimes’ ongoing atrocities.” said Banks. “If there’s one lesson from the Co... Read more »
WASHINGTON – After the Senate voted to acquit President Trump, Rep. Jim Banks released the following statement: “Now that President Trump has been cleared, we need to investigate the apparent corruption within the Democrat party. Democrats need to be held accountable for dragging our country through historic, unprecedented, partisan impeachment. “We know Rep. Adam Schiff lied about his interaction... Read more »
