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Americans should be concerned that Chief Justice John Roberts chose to inveigh against President Donald Trump's critique of a judicial ruling and the judge who made it. I get it. The chief justice, as head of the judicial branch, was trying to protect what he saw as an attack by the head of the executive branch. But he was wrong to do so for several reasons.
The attack on our southern border by a mob attempting to enter our country illegally, in part to force us to change our laws and policies, is nothing short of an invasion. Congressional inattention and inaction, together with activist judges and a lack of preparation by the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Border Patrol Commissioner, has created a perfect storm. The president is left with few options other than to close our border and negotiate with Mexico for help in stemming the tide.
With Democrats set to become the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives in January, I call on my Republican colleagues in the chamber to gear up for the inevitable Democratic attacks on everything we've worked to accomplish in the past two years in partnership with President Trump.
Conservative Republicans are calling for a busy lame-duck session of Congress between now and Jan. 3, when Democrats will retake the majority in—and control of—the House.
"Republicans still have an opportunity to do what we said," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal.
Republicans in Congress will hold the majority for less than two months. We must do all we can to further the agenda we promised in 2016 and in 2018 before the Democrats take a wrecking ball to the progress America has made in the last two years.
We need to repeal ObamaCare and implement the rational replacements that will protect all Americans and reduce health insurance premiums while providing better access to health care. Let's vote for a clean repeal of ObamaCare. That's what we promised. We must deliver on that promise.
Rhetoric from the left drips with irony and devastates civil political discourse in this country. A week prior to the midterm election, I was eating lunch with a friend at a restaurant in my congressional district. Another friend arrived early for his lunch appointment and joined us in conversation while waiting for his associate.
PHOENIX — The Democratic Party has officially taken over the U.S. House of Representatives and Republicans are already anticipating that lawmakers will pursue impeachment of President Donald Trump.
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, who easily won his re-election bid on Tuesday over Democrat Joan Greene with 59 percent of the vote, said he expects Democrats to take the impeachment or investigation route against the president.
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The group of illegal migrants continues to cross Mexico toward the United States. President Trump is deploying more than 5,000 troops to the border. The Mexican government has not been able to turn the group around toward their own countries, and they persist in defying multiple laws in their stated efforts to breach the U.S.-Mexico border.
Kim Vehon, a Mesa mother of seven and CEO/founder of Foster Arizona, has been named an Angels in Adoption Honoree by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
Nominated by U.S. Rep Andy Biggs, R-Mesa, as one of two Arizonans to get the award, Vehon is the founder of a nonprofit focused on educating, encouraging and helping Arizonans "to positively impact the lives of kids in foster care," a spokeswoman said.
Oct. 29--Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is finally free to do something about its short -- and potentially unsafe -- air traffic control tower.
Thanks to the U.S. Senate passing the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, the airport will be allowed to spend around $20 million on a new control tower after years of not being able to build it because of an old, bureaucratic rule.
"All we've been wanting to do is spend our own money," airport spokesman Ryan Smith said. "We're not looking for a handout. We just to be able to spend our own money."