A brand new chairman of the Republican Research Committee was unanimously elected Thursday, simply at some point after the GOP officially secured a slim majority within the U.S. Home of Representatives for the upcoming 118th Congress.
“I’m honored to earn the assist of my colleagues to steer the most important caucus on Capitol Hill. The Republican Research Committee has an necessary position in our new majority: We’re the conservative conscience of the Republican Convention,” Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., stated in an announcement.
“Chairman Jim Banks has executed an unbelievable job the final two years. I’m grateful for his management getting ready RSC to steer within the majority subsequent yr,” stated Hern, 60, who received reelection final week to a 3rd time period representing Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District.
In keeping with its website, “The Republican Research Committee (RSC) has served because the conservative caucus of Home Republicans and a number one influencer on the Proper since its unique founding in 1973.”
The newly elected chairman added:
The American persons are overwhelmingly sad with the course our nation has taken beneath Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. They elected a Republican Congress to cease the Biden agenda, safe the border, restore vitality independence, scale back our debt, and get again to the robust economic system we had beneath President Donald Trump.
After I introduced my marketing campaign, I promised my colleagues that nobody would outwork me to cross conservative coverage. Come January 3rd, they’ll see precisely what meaning. Let’s get to work!
Hern, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, turned again challenges from Democrat Adam Martin and unbiased Evelyn Rogers with 61.2% of the vote, Ballotpedia reported.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the GOP group’s outgoing chairman, stated in the identical assertion Thursday that “serving because the Republican Research Committee chairman has been one of many biggest honors of my life.”
“I couldn’t be extra pleased with what we achieved collectively at RSC during the last two years,” he stated.
“For practically [50] years, [the Republican Study Committee] has been the guts and soul of the conservative motion on Capitol Hill, and I’m honored to have performed a small half in its historical past,” stated Banks, including:
I’d prefer to congratulate incoming Republican Research Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, and I stay up for working alongside him and the RSC over the subsequent two vital years.
Our convention should maintain its guarantees by creating and uniting round a conservative agenda subsequent Congress, and the RSC shall be on the middle of all of it. It’s reassuring to know our caucus is in such succesful palms.
Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Basis, additionally reacted to the information in a tweet. (The Each day Sign is the information outlet of The Heritage Basis.)
“Congratulations @repkevinhern! @Heritage and I stay up for working alongside y’all to advance conservative priorities this Congress,” Roberts stated.
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