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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Andy Biggs led a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, urging him to take immediate action to further reform the New Source Review (NSR) "preconstruction air permitting program." The letter was signed by dozens of Members of Congress and comes on the heels of the EPA's most-recent action to improve NSR. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
Republicans and Democrats on Sunday night held prep sessions as they gear up for the House Judiciary Committee's high-stakes impeachment hearing concerning President Trump's dealing with Ukraine.
Lawmakers are looking to be as ready as possible ahead of Monday's hearing, one of the final opportunities for members to publicly make their case for or against impeachment as Democrats charge ahead with hopes to vote on articles before the Christmas holiday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed her committee chairmen to begin drafting Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. Congressman Biggs issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Labor released its Employment Situation Report for November, showing an increase of 266,000 jobs, a lowered unemployment rate of 3.5%, and a yearly wage rate uptick of 3.1%.
Americans are taking notice, just look at the headlines. CNBC said that "the jobs market turned in a stellar performance in November." Bloomberg News stated that "U.S. Jobs Trounce Forecasts; Wages Heat Up." USA Today wrote that the U.S. "Economy added booming 266,000 jobs in November."
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said on Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call for articles of impeachment against President Trump is a "political move" that is based upon weak evidence and contested facts.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that "uncontested facts" led her to announce an imminent move forward with the impeachment of President Trump.
Rep. Andy Biggs emerged Wednesday as a prominent House Republican seeking to slow down and reshape a key hearing of the House Judiciary Committee as it considers drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Biggs, a second-term Arizona Republican, joined his GOP colleagues in the early minutes of the hearing as they peppered the Democratic Judiciary chairman with questions about procedure that deepened the partisan divisions already hanging over the Ukrainian matter.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, told his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee that the impeachment hearing didn't have three fact witnesses but instead professors with "preconceived biases" against President Donald Trump.
"One of my colleagues wondered how this panel could opine as to whether the president committed a criminal offense," said Biggs, referring to the witnesses. "The answer quite frankly is because you came in with a preconceived notion. You already made that determination."
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz, took legal expert Noah Feldman to task in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings for his 2017 tweet arguing for President Donald Trump's impeachment.
"The expansive view you have of impeachment is a real problem," Biggs said.
"What I'm suggesting to you today is a reckless bias coming in here. You're not a fact witnesses. You're supposed to be talking about what the law is, but you came in with a preconceived notion and bias."
They've gotten into shouting matches over whether socialists are Nazis. They've clashed with the parents of children who died from gun violence. And they've insinuated that a key witness was having an affair on the eve of a marquee hearing.
They're some of the most colorful Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee — and these lawmakers are ready to bring their antics to the next act in the impeachment saga.