Pro-Life Congressman Kevin Hern Elected to Lead Conservative Group in House Republican Caucus
November 19, 2022 | District of Columbia, Oklahoma
A new chairman of the Republican Study Committee was unanimously elected Thursday, just one day after the GOP officially secured a slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the upcoming 118th Congress.
“I’m honored to earn the support of my colleagues to lead the largest caucus on Capitol Hill. The Republican Study Committee has an important role in our new majority: We are the conservative conscience of the Republican Conference,” Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., said in a statement.
“Chairman Jim Banks has done an incredible job the last two years. I’m thankful for his leadership preparing RSC to lead in the majority next year,” said Hern, 60, who won reelection last week to a third term representing Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District.
According to its website, “The Republican Study Committee (RSC) has served as the conservative caucus of House Republicans and a leading influencer on the Right since its original founding in 1973.”
The newly elected chairman added:
The American people are overwhelmingly unhappy with the direction our country has taken under Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. They elected a Republican Congress to stop the Biden agenda, secure the border, restore energy independence, reduce our debt, and get back to the strong economy we had under President Donald Trump…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
