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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs introduced legislation that would strengthen penalties on illegal immigrants convicted of casting fraudulent votes.
The bill, which the Arizona Republican introduced on Friday, less than three months before Election Day, seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it an aggravated felony for illegal immigrants to cast fraudulent votes in federal elections.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, joined a chorus of Republicans defending the changes to the Postal Service and accusing Democrats in a sometimes-heated hearing of conspiring to create problems with this fall's presidential election.
"I want to clear up some obvious political disinformation that the majority is putting out," Gosar said at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting where Republicans defended cost-cutting moves by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
On Friday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Biggs (R-AZ) stated that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's call for a national mask mandate is about "control" and an infringement on state sovereignty that Biden does not have the power to issue. Biggs further stated that "if they're going to start shutting down over flu every year as well, you're going to have a big problem going forward with centralized power."
Arizona Senators Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema joined Representatives Tom O'Halleran, Greg Stanton, Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs, David Schweikert, Ruben Gallego, and Raul Grijalva in urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to protect "free, fair, and reciprocal trade" with Mexico.
The letter comes amid discussions among Trump Administration officials over whether to implement a new "seasonal trade remedy" to protect growers in the Southeast U.S., which the delegation argues will hurt Arizona importers and shoppers.
On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) explains why he thinks using mail-in balloting as a respond to the coronavirus is just one ay government is using the virus to "control" its citizens.
It's funny that I just read my colleagues post about the shifting narrative for face mask mandates. One thing he noted was that people of Arizona had been most reluctant to wear face masks. In researching this, I found that many in Arizona's government have taken this reluctance as a sign to get even more draconian, to establish completely unrealistic goals so life can essentially never go back to normal.
There are two almost immutable laws of operation that form the basis of America's political left. The first is that Democrats and leftists foment fear in order to obtain and maintain political power. The other is that they always accuse everyone else, conservatives and Republicans, of acts, words and ideas in which the left is engaged.
If a drug is proven to be safe, is Food and Drug Administration-approved, has been administered hundreds of millions of times, and your doctor believes that it might possibly help your health, would you want access to that drug?
Of course you would. You would want the right to try it, even if you weren't sure it would be effective. Yet, the right to try a pharmaceutical that is safe and possibly effective is being denied throughout this country.
Rep. Andy Biggs called on the Trump administration Monday to allow certified registered nurse anesthetists to provide care without physician supervision, thereby making permanent the regulatory relief granted early in the pandemic.