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Each year, millions of Americans are diagnosed with terminal illnesses. These people are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, grandpas and grandmas. More than anything else, these individuals hope to determine their own future.
One thing these people don't have is time.
It is imperative that Congress pass the Right to Try Act immediately, allowing millions of Americans to have the freedom to fight for their health. Time is of the essence.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said he's in favor of releasing the Democratic memo countering the GOP document alleging that the Justice Department abused a surveillance program against a Trump campaign adviser.
"I support the declassification of the Democrats' memo - once the necessary redactions have been made. The American people deserve to read both memos side by side," Biggs tweeted Saturday.
The Republican, who has been a supporter of Trump, also said during an appearance on Fox News's "America's News HQ" he was in favor of the memo being released.
The budget caps deal produced by Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer is a fiscal disaster parading as a military support bill. They argue that we need to fully fund the military. I agree. That's why we sent a bill to the Senate earlier this week that fully funded the military – without adding more than $500 billion to our deficit over the next 18 months, as their plan does.
PHOENIX — President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday and several Arizona lawmakers said they will attend, but they are not going alone.
Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and Martha McSally will attend the address with some guests.
Biggs will bring Pamela Foster, the mother of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike, who was abducted and murdered on the Navajo Nation reservation in May 2016.
With Christmas right behind us, it's a little disappointing that there are still grinches lurking about seeking to dampen our cheer for President Trump's once-in-a-generation tax reform package. But I'm certainly not going to let the naysayers and nitpickers get me down.
My colleagues and I just passed the most aggressively pro-growth tax reform package since the Reagan administration: That was a huge Christmas and New Year's gift for everyone.
GILBERT, AZ - An Arizona congressman says no one really wants DACA, the program that gives legal work status to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, says the debate on the program, set to phase out this spring, has become tied up in emotion. Approximately 800,000 people could be eligible for deportation unless DACA is renewed or replaced.
DACA is the amnesty that nobody wants. DACA recipients don't want it because it doesn't do enough. Opponents believe it does too much and that other priorities, such as a border wall, must come first. We can pay for that border wall by taxing remittance payments.
PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers, including U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona, were pushing for the release of a memo they said showed abuse of power by the FBI and Justice Department.
"It needs to be public. I think Americans will be outraged when they read what I read," Biggs said Friday on KTAR News 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News.
"We just have to get it on the [Senate] floor and vote to reveal it."
PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate said it was close to agreement on immigration issues that included the futures of thousands of young people in the country, but one Arizona congressman still objects on principle.
"We're getting the cart before the horse," U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said Thursday on KTAR 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News. "We need to build the wall first."
It is a great honor to serve in Congress. This year has been an exciting and busy one. I promised that I would introduce a series of bills: repeal Common Core; Grant's Law to prevent catch-and-release immigration programs, require Congress to balance a budget or forfeit salary; require Congress to live under the same laws that it requires all Americans to live under (such as Obamacare); divide Arizona out of the uber-liberal 9th Federal Circuit and join other Western states in a new 12th Judicial circuit; and the REINS Act to reduce onerous federal regulations.