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March 29, 2017

Arizona's members of the House Freedom Caucus, which helped scuttle the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, said this week that the battle over health care in Congress isn't finished.


March 27, 2017

A planned vote on the Trump-supported bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in the House of Representatives was canceled Friday because it did not have enough votes to pass. Congressman Andy Biggs joined us from Washington, DC with an update.


March 27, 2017

Over the past few days, I've been thinking about the recently-defeated House proposal to amend Obamacare. On the morning of the scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act, I sat next to a fellow first-year congressman on the floor of the House of Representatives. He supported the bill and knew that I was opposed. He asked me, "If we don't do this, what's the path forward?"

I responded, "The good news is that there are multiple paths to producing legislation that will actually repeal Obamacare, just like we promised our voters."


March 27, 2017

Rep. Andy Biggs joined the Mike Broomhead Show to talk about why the healthcare bill didn't see a vote. Rep. Biggs said the plan didn't work because the bill "would not repeal anything to do with Title XI or essential health benefits, those are what's driving the premiums sky high" He added he has directed his staff to continue to work on a healthcare bill that he co-sponsored and introduced the first day of this session.


March 26, 2017

March 26, 2017 - "Where's Jordan?" asked Vice President Pence as he walked into the White House meeting of terminally ill patients and their families. All eyes shifted, and Pence made a beeline for a 7-year-old boy from Indianapolis with a broad grin.


March 24, 2017

From the moment I decided to run for Congress, I have repeatedly promised the residents of the east Valley that I would fight for a clean repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "Obamacare."

Since this law took effect in 2010, Americans have faced rising premiums, fewer choices and decreasing quality of care. My home state of Arizona has been hit hardest of all with premiums more than doubling. In fact, nearly all Arizonans have only one insurance option on the ACA marketplace, and even that option may soon disappear.


March 24, 2017

From the moment I decided to run for Congress, I have repeatedly promised the residents of the East Valley that I would fight for a clean repeal of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Since this law took effect in 2010, Americans have faced rising premiums, fewer choices, and decreasing quality of care.

My home state of Arizona has been hit hardest of all with premiums more than doubling. In fact, nearly all Arizonans have only one insurance option on the Obamacare marketplace, and even that option may soon disappear.


March 24, 2017

PHOENIX — As the GOP health care bill made it past an early stumbling block Friday morning, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs said he would not be voting for it as is.

"There's really nothing there. They said we're not going to negotiate anymore. It remains rife with problems. I'm still a no," the U.S. congressman from Gilbert told KTAR's Arizona's Morning News shortly before the rules committee went to work.


March 15, 2017

Anti-abortion groups and conservative lawmakers are worried that several provisions aimed at cutting abortions won't survive in the House Republicans' plan to repeal Obamacare.

The lawmakers are worried that a plan to cut Medicaid spending to Planned Parenthood for one year, a long-standing goal among conservatives, nor a provision that would restrict abortions could make it to final passage in the American Health Care Act, which would repeal Obamacare.


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March 14, 2017

BY LYDIA WHEELER - 03/14/17 (The Hill)

The U.S. Judicial Conference agreed Tuesday to recommend Congress add five judges to the California-based federal court of appeals.

In addition to the five judgeships the conference wants Congress to create on Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 26-member policy-making body for the federal court system is recommending Congress create 52 Article III judgeships in the district courts, and give eight temporary district court judges full-time status.