{"id":22818,"date":"2018-07-30T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=22818"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:11:55","slug":"banks-receives-freedomfighter-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/banks-receives-freedomfighter-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks Receives FreedomFighter Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-22819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Banks-FreedomFighter-Award.png?resize=451%2C305&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"305\" \/>Washington, D.C. \u2013 This week, Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) received the FreedomFighter Award from FreedomWorks. The award recognizes members of Congress who are dedicated to economic freedom and personal liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to fight for conservative principles in Congress and it is an honor to be recognized as a FreedomFighter,\u201d said Banks. \u201cI remain committed to supporting policies that empower hard-working Americans and limit the size of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, FreedomWorks scored key votes for 32 pieces of legislation, ranging from resolutions of disapproval for burdensome Obama-era regulations to supporting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Congressman Jim Banks received a 97 percent rating on the 2017 FreedomWorks\u2019 Congressional Scorecard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 This week, Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) received the FreedomFighter Award from FreedomWorks. The award recognizes members of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2301],"tags":[10838,10839,10465,10700],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-general-news","tag-freedomfighter-award","tag-freedomworks","tag-jim-banks","tag-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Banks-FreedomFighter-Award.png?fit=666%2C444&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-5W2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 15:27:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}