Press Releases

Congressman Andy Biggs continues to make border security his number one priority. He introduced last week legislation to facilitate imposition of the mandate to fix the border given to President-Elect Trump.

Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) was selected to return as the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance for the 119th Congress. This will be Congressman Biggs’s second term as Chairman and his third term as the Subcommittee’s highest ranking Republican. Congressman Biggs issued the following statement:

Today, the House passed H.R. 115, Midnight Rules Relief Act, sponsored by Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ), by a vote of 210-201. Congressman Biggs issued the following statement on the House’s passage of his legislation:

Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced the Secret Service Prioritization Act of 2024, legislation to refocus United States Secret Service (USSS) efforts on its protective mission—USSS’s primary responsibility. Congressman Biggs’s bill will transfer non-protective responsibilities, such as the investigation of financial crimes like counterfeiting, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under President Trump and his FBI Director. 

Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced the Congressional Border Security Assessment Act. This legislation ensures that Members of Congress and accompanying Congressional staff can fully assess border security on Indian reservations that include at least fifty contiguous miles of the U.S. southern border. Lawmakers have a duty to their constituents to inspect heavily trafficked areas along the border and to report on threats to national security—even when that involves accessing Indian reservations.

Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced the Mens Rea Reform Act of 2024 and the End Endless Criminal Statutes Act to combat the federal government’s habitual practice of codifying absurd amounts of federal criminal offenses.

Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) reintroduced the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA), legislation that would protect traveling knife owners from the vagaries of restrictive state and local laws. If possession of the knife is legal in the state where the journey starts and ends, and provided the knife is secured in accordance with the requirements set in KOPA, knife owners would no longer be threatened with arrest simply for traveling from one state to another.

Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced the No Funding for Illegal Migrant Billboards Act, legislation to prohibit federal funds from being used to publicly advertise the functions of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO).

Recently, DHS-funded billboards advertising “rights” for individuals in “immigration custody” have been spotted in Arizona and Texas, drawing massive public scrutiny—one U.S. Border Patrol agent called the billboards “a slap in the face to all Americans.”