As China reportedly maintains its enduring influence on American higher education by seeking to rebrand its Confucius Institutes (CI) in U.S. universities, Democrats have still refused to get tougher on the regime to counter its further infiltration, according to Republican lawmakers. “With Joe Biden in the White House, we’re seeing … their Confucius Institute and…

House Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and 15 GOP colleagues are challenging the legality of State Department grants—of as much as $500,000 each—to international “organizations committed to the practice and spread of atheism and humanism.” Their challenge is contained in a June 30 letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of…

Facing refusal by Democratic leaders to allow the House of Representatives to vote on his bill protecting women’s sports, Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) filed a discharge petition on behalf of H.R. 426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021. First filed by Steube in…

A bill co-sponsored by 18 House Republicans would remove the National Education Association’s (NEA) 116-year-old federal charter because of the union’s hyper-partisanship and support for extreme ideological policies such as critical race theory (CRT). “The NEA can no longer be considered a public service worthy of its federal charter as it has drifted substantially from…

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) blasted Democrats’ COMPETES Act for failing to counter China, despite it being marketed by Democrats as a means to increase U.S. competitiveness with the eastern superpower. “Their fake China bill doesn’t just fail to counter China—it actually helps China by lifting visa limits on high-skilled foreign nationals, failing to protect research…

The bipartisan Indiana Election Commission on Feb. 18 unanimously dismissed a Democratic challenger’s bid to force an outspoken pro-Trump Republican congressman off this year’s ballot for contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Aaron “A.J.” Calkins of Fort Wayne, who is running in a three-way Democratic Party primary for the right to face third-term U.S. Rep….

A Democratic challenger is trying to use an obscure constitutional provision to disqualify Indiana GOP Rep. Jim Banks in this year’s congressional election, arguing that his vote in Congress against certifying the 2020 presidential election results constituted supporting an insurrection. In a Facebook post before the votes, Banks had said he was simply doing his…

A Democratic challenger is trying to use an obscure constitutional provision to disqualify Indiana GOP Rep. Jim Banks in this year’s congressional election, arguing that his vote in Congress against certifying the 2020 presidential election results constituted supporting an insurrection. In a Facebook post before the votes, Banks had said he was simply doing his…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she rejected two representatives that Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) appointed to the January 6 Select Committee because of previous statements they made, adding that their membership on the committee would weaken the integrity of the commission. “We’re there to get the truth, not to get Trump, t-r-u, truth. Trump,…

Leader of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), in a memo (pdf) to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), laid out how to build on the working-class voter base that former president Donald Trump gifted the party. “President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party…