{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-just-the-news-with-john-solomon/", "ICYMI: Sen. Banks Joins Just the News with John Solomon", "2026-08-07", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Just the News: No Noise with John Solomon on Real America\u2019s Voice to discuss the SAVE America Act, his introduction of the Citizenship Act of 2026, and the weaponization of the FBI against President Trump.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion.\n\nKey Excerpts on the SAVE America Act:\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): \u201cLet\u2019s stay in Washington, let\u2019s get our work done, let\u2019s pass the SAVE America Act, there\u2019s a lot of other issues that we\u2019re focusing on too, but I don\u2019t think anything is more important than voter ID at the ballot box to make sure that only American citizens vote in American elections. By the way, the big news that the mainstream media hardly covered was that the new Democrat governor in New Jersey announced a week ago that they accidentally added 66,00 noncitizens to the voter roll and hundreds of them voted in the last two elections, if that\u2019s not a reason in and of itself\u2026 That\u2019s why we need the SAVE America Act: we need to pass it now; we don\u2019t need an August recess; we don\u2019t need a vacation. Let\u2019s pass the SAVE America Act before we head out of town.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe can pass it; it\u2019s a version of the SAVE America Act, and it\u2019s related to grants to the states that provide for voter ID. It would incentivize more states to pass voter ID laws, but it\u2019s better than nothing, so let\u2019s do everything that we can to secure our elections. No political issue I\u2019ve seen has been more popular. President Trump is right to push to pass it. Let\u2019s pass it before we go home.\u201d\n\nKey Excerpts on the Citizenship Act of 2026:\n\n\u201cI\u2019m concerned about it because right now about 250,000 babies of illegals in our country are born in America and are automatically given birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment doesn\u2019t grant that someone who\u2019s here illegally should get birthright citizenship, but they struck down the president\u2019s executive order\u2026We don\u2019t need a constitutional amendment, and Congress can\u2019t overturn a Supreme Court decision. My bill, the Citizenship Act, declares an invasion and says that the babies of illegal immigrants are not eligible for birthright citizenship. This is important to the future of our country. I mean 250,00 babies a year; that\u2019s a magnet for more illegals to come into our country; this is what attracts them to come into our country to begin with.\u201d\n\nKey Excerpts on Oxferd Comma:\n\n\u201cThose first two years that I was in the House, those years were completely lost, they were derailed because of the Russian collusion hoax and what these guys did to our country and they have never been held accountable for it, so I\u2019m glad you exposed this story because it reminds us the damage that Comey and those in the Deep State the damage they did to our country and the missed opportunities in those two years\u2026 there was so much more that President Trump tried to do for our country, that he was elected to do for our country that didn\u2019t get done because of that whole agenda was derailed by a hoax.\u201d\n\n\u201cTime has proven that President Trump has been as tough on Putin and Russia as any other President. The whole thing was a farce; it was all narrative created by those who were upset President Trump ever won to begin with and wanted to block him from getting anything done, and the losers out of it were the country, the United States of America, and the progress that we lost for this great nation over two years because of what they got away with. We can\u2019t let them get away with that again. This is why accountability matters.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-08T05:41:38Z", "2026-08-08T05:43:24Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-just-the-news-with-john-solomon/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8179161231964827, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}