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WASHINGTON – Accompanying the release of the ground-breaking, bipartisan report produced by members of the House Armed Services Committee’s bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force, Co-Chair Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03), released the following statement: “The significance of this report is in its name. This report details a vision of the future of defense--specifically a smart,… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03) released the following statement: “Naming Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg represents the culmination of President Trump’s four-year record of delivering on the promises he made to conservatives during the 2016 campaign. She will be a staunch defender of the Constitution and apply the law as it is written. “Barrett is… Read more »

The following op-ed appeared at the American Mind on September 24, 2020. We now have a Supreme Court vacancy, and President Trump and Senate Republicans are moving to fill it before the 117th Congress begins.   According to the White House, we’ll learn the nominee’s name Saturday. But whomever is chosen, we know they will apply the law and interpret the Constitution as… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks, Chair of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, released the following statement: “Since the House has failed to complete the regular appropriations process this year, and to avoid a government shutdown amidst a pandemic, Supreme Court nomination and election, the best scenario is for Congress to quickly pass a clean continuing… Read more »

The following op-ed appeared on September 18 at National Review. In March, as we learned of COVID-19’s lethality and the global community’s inability to contain it, more and more leaders expressed outrage at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Where did the virus come from? How long had the CCP known about it? Could China have contained it earlier? Why didn’t the Chinese government… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) and 33 of his Republican colleagues sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking him to prosecute Netflix executives for distributing the film “Cuties”—which meets the legal definition of child pornography. “Cuties is child porn and Netflix should be prosecuted for distributing it. The vast majority of Americans agree with… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) Budget & Spending Task Force Chairman Jim Banks (IN- 03), RSC Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04), and RSC National Security & Foreign Affairs Task Force Chairman Joe Wilson (SC-02) introduced the Countering Chinese Propaganda Act. This legislation, based upon the recommendations from the Republican Study Committee… Read more »

The following op-ed appeared at the Washington Examiner on September 10, 2020.  Actions speak louder than anonymous sources.   Pictures and quotes can be fabricated or taken out of context. What’s much harder to spin are actual policies. And if you look at President Trump’s record on the military, there’s only one conclusion: He holds the military in the highest… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03) has signed Heritage Action’s Police Pledge, a pledge that calls on Americans to support police officers and oppose any legislative efforts to “defund the police.”  “The thin blue line is what stands between civilization and lawless chaos. I deeply appreciate the service law enforcement agents perform for our communities, keeping us safe as we… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Banks introduced the “Support Peaceful Protest Act” on Friday that would require arrested rioters who were caught committing crimes like acts of violence, looting or vandalism to pay for the cost of federal policing of the riot and be ineligible for federal unemployment assistance. “Antifa thugs are descending on suffering communities, disrupting peaceful protests… Read more »