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WASHINGTON—Today, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (IN), Rep. Mary Miller (IL), Rep. Diana Harshbarger (TN) and other RSC members gathered outside the Capitol to discuss the introduction of Rep. Debbie Lesko's (AZ) "Women's Bill of Rights" resolution to reaffirm legal protections for women.

Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS), Cynthia Lummis (WY) and Ted Cruz (TX) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

WASHINGTON— Today, Republican Study Committee Member and House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, RSC Chairman Jim Banks, and RSC Member and Doc Caucus Chairman Brad Wenstrup introduced The Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act, important legislation that would expand access to life saving cures and prevent discrimination against Americans with disabilities.

RSC Chairman Jim Banks said: "Republicans belong to the party of life. This includes all life, from conception to natural death. Our important legislation promotes the dignity and value of each human being by ensuring that government bureaucrats can't arbitrarily decide that some lives have more value than others.

WASHINGTON— Earlier this week, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks and Rep. Greg Steube (FL-17) filed a discharge petition for Rep. Steube's bill, H.R.426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021. Rep.

WASHINGTON— Today, Republican Study Committee Member Rep. Yvette Herrell introduced important legislation that would bar American taxpayer dollars from funding research affiliated with the People's Republic of China (PRC) or the Chinese Communist Party.

WASHINGTON— Today, Republican Study Committee Member Rep. Lisa McClain, RSC Chairman Jim Banks, RSC National Security and Foreign Affairs Task Force Chairman Joe Wilson, and House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mike Rogers, introduced legislation that would require sanctions on all past and future members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s National Congress and their immediate family members. The sanctions would last until the CCP ends its theft of American intellectual property, ends its genocide of Uyghur Muslims, ends its incursions into Taiwan and stops its human rights abuses in Hong Kong.

WASHINGTON— Today, Republican Study Committee Member Rep. Yvette Herrell introduced legislation to require the Food and Drug Administration to produce a report and recommendations on regulatory barriers to domestic manufacturing of medical products that are critical to public health during public health emergencies.

In the earliest days of the pandemic, China threatened to halt lifesaving supplies of medicine to the United States. This highlighted a glaring need to reshore our supply chains and make sure Americans would have access to lifesaving medicine and medical supplies during public health crises.

The Protecting American Lives Act (PAL) Act of 2022 would help begin that effort of reshoring our medical supply chains.

WASHINGTON— Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, introduced a new bill today which would impose real costs on Vladimir Putin's increasing aggression and call out the Biden administration's Real Russia Collusion. The new bill, co-led by RSC National Security and Foreign Affairs Task Force Chairman Joe Wilson, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Rep. Michael Waltz, Rep. Barry Moore and joined by 38 House Republicans, would impose the toughest sanctions on Russia ever proposed by Congress. Read more via the Washington Post HERE.