{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-senator-banks-on-fox-news-if-you-send-drugs-to-usa-you-will-pay-a-price/", "ICYMI: Senator Banks\u00a0on\u00a0Fox News: \u201cIf\u00a0You\u00a0Send\u00a0Drugs to\u00a0USA\u2026\u00a0You Will Pay a Price\u201d", "2025-10-20", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Yesterday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined The Sunday Briefing to talk about President Trump\u2019s America First agenda. He highlighted the importance of promoting peace through strength to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, and the need to secure our borders by stopping narco-terrorists and the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion\n\nKey Excerpts:\n\nSen. Banks: \u201c\u2026 What Zelensky said as well, that President Trump is the only one who can negotiate a deal to bring peace to Ukraine to end the war. At the same time, you have Putin saying that the war never would have started if Donald Trump was president in the first place. It feels like President Trump is making large gains here. And if things like this could get us closer to that, to something that brings peace in Ukraine, I give Donald Trump a lot of credit for it.\u201d\n\n***\n\nSen Banks: \u201cHe\u2019s 100% right\u2026 Remember, President Trump was completely underestimated when it came to Iran and threatening to end their nuclear program. They didn\u2019t do it, so he bombed them. He set back the nuclear program in Iran and devastated that program, and that\u2019s what Venezuela and Maduro and all the narco-terrorists need to understand, in Central and South America. That if you send drugs to the United States of America and kill Americans, then you are at war with us, and you will pay a price. That\u2019s why I totally back what President Trump is trying to do, taking out drug-runners on submarines, or all of the cartels at the southern border. Do whatever it takes, declare war on them, don\u2019t let them get away with it, and put Maduro on notice of that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re going to do\u2026\u201d\n\n***\n\nSen. Banks: \u201c\u2026We\u2019ve used the Reaper drones. We\u2019re using units like this to take out narco-terrorists trafficking drugs into the United States. And I find that Hoosiers completely agree with and support that mission. We\u2019ve seen the devastating effects. We\u2019ve had more Americans die of drug overdoses in the last year than in the entire war in Vietnam. And that\u2019s what we need to remember here. The President Trump is putting them on notice. This isn\u2019t Joe.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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-senator-banks-on-fox-news-if-you-send-drugs-to-usa-you-will-pay-a-price/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1063269339501858, "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"}