Jim Banks

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 229, nays 202, not voting 1, as…

The Select Committee is engaged in an unconstitutional, political investigation, a sham investigation conducted by a sham committee that refuses to answer real questions about what happened on January 6. I urge all of my colleagues to make…

the average tuition rate for a public 2-year technical school is only $3,588.00.

Everything that you saw today was carefully scripted by Speaker Pelosi and her staff, even the statements that these police officers read. You can tell at times they didn’t write the statements. They were merely reading them as they…

I have yet to meet a Republican in Congress who has minimized and doesn't believe that what happened on January 6 was serious.

Criminals in every city in America are liking what Democrats are selling. And that’s why you’re seeing unprecedented crime rate -- waves across America.

The Chinese Communist Party knows that American universities are home to government-funded national security research.

Unfortunately for too long our colleges and universities have turned a blind eye to these threats.

the HHS Office for Civil Rights contains a conscience and religious freedom division that enforces nearly two dozen Federal laws protecting conscience in healthcare

will you commit to not sending our taxpayer dollars to go toward funding partial birth abortion?

that would make your and the Biden administration the most pro-abortion Administration in the history of this country.

your budget proposal is the first budget proposal in 45 years that doesn't include the Hyde Amendment

Today's hearing is an important step in building our members' awareness of the role of inspectors general.

Fort Hood's number of open sex-crime cases warranted three times the number of sexual assault investigators than what they were allocated.

I share your concern about the conditions at Fort Hood and look forward to hearing from our panelists today.

I hope that you will take that back and give us more of a specific answer to that question.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Anything specific to Fort Hood that you can tell us about that you have done to repair the relationships locally there?

The Democratic Party claims to have the best interest of American workers at heart so, please, prove it. Madam Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the motion to recommit.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 206, nays 218, not voting 7, as…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Banks moves to recommit the bill H.R. 842 to the Committee on Education and Labor. The material…

I think you all will all agree that our military families deserve the best housing experiences that we can provide them.

If we adopt the motion to recommit, we will instruct the Committee on Education and Labor to consider an amendment to prohibit labor organizations from encouraging illegal immigrants to join their ranks. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous…

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and onerous government restrictions, the last year has been among the toughest for working Americans in our Nation's history. Congress' foremost duty today is to help the millions of hurting American workers…

I thank the ranking member, and I congratulate my friend in his new leadership role in addressing what is one of the most important issues in our country today, which is fiscal irresponsibility and a now nearly $30 trillion national debt…