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With the Treasury set to be unable to continue borrowing more Sept. 29, due to the debt limit, conservative lawmakers are looking ahead to what they should do.
PHOENIX — A week after President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the government unless he gets funding for a border wall between the United States and Mexico, an Arizona congressman said that may not be what the country wants.
"I don't think people really want to shut down government," Republican Rep. Andy Biggs told KTAR News 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News on Tuesday.
Republican leaders don't want a government shutdown. Democrats don't either, at least not officially.
And yet come this fall, or perhaps just in time for Christmas, federal agencies might once again send their nonessential employees home and national parks and museums might close their doors—all because of President Trump's insistence that Congress fork over about $1.6 billion in seed money for his long-promised southern border wall.
It's time to "put the screws" to Republican lawmakers who promised to repeal Obamacare, one House member says, and that's why he supports reviving a successful 2015 attempt to get rid of the health care law.
"We certainly can't give up," Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said in a phone interview with The Daily Signal.
Gaetz was explaining why he decided to back a small caucus of House conservatives in its strategy to force a floor vote on a bill mirroring the Obamacare repeal passed in December 2015.
A Senate-passed bill intended to help dying patients access experimental drugs will likely face lengthier deliberations in the House. While the Senate fast-tracked the bill on Aug. 3, the House will likely subject it to a hearing and markup before bringing it up to a vote, according to congressional aides and a lobbyist.
According to Rep. Andy Biggs ("Kill the Filibuster Before It's Too Late," op-ed, Aug. 7), the Senate filibuster is the greatest obstacle blocking Republicans from fulfilling their agenda. But why is the filibuster such an obstacle? It wasn't always so.
The McLinn family of Indianapolis is still fighting for their seven-year-old son, Jordan, who was diagnosed at the age of 3 with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This is an aggressive disease that results in muscle weakness and loss first attacking the extremities, eventually moving to the heart and other internal organs. There is no known cure, yet, but there are treatments that can help manage symptoms and slow progression of the disease.
PHOENIX — An Arizona congressman wrote that the Senate needs to remove a 60-vote requirement to pass legislation in order to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal published Sunday, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) wrote the filibuster gives the other side of the aisle too much say in blocking bills from moving through the legislative body.
An Arizona congressman is working to remove energy subsidies that are part of the 2014 farm bill.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., recently released legislation that he says could save the American taxpayer more than a billion dollars over five years.
Biggs told The Daily Signal in an interview that he wants his bill "to actually roll back and repeal these subsidies set in place."
The subsidies "cost taxpayers, in direct costs, probably about $1.3 to $1.4 billion over the next five years," Biggs said.
The greatest obstacle blocking Republicans from fulfilling our agenda is not manufactured outrage about Russians. It's the Senate filibuster, the 60-vote threshold to suspend debate that prevents most bills from making it to the floor.