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John Dean, Congress' star Watergate witness, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday to help Democrats link President Donald Trump to one of the biggest presidential scandals in modern history.
But Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee ensured that what unfolded was an at-times heated relitigation of Dean's role in Watergate more than 40 years ago, questioning his honor, pointing to his own admitted obstruction of justice at that time and accusing him of profiting off his Watergate experience as a television commentator who frequently criticizes Trump.
If you thought that the theater of the absurd that is the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee couldn't be more farcical, you were wrong. At least absurdist theater has a serious component and attempts to provoke introspection.
While President Trump is trying to find a solution to the border crisis and rising tide of illegal immigration, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is tweeting out his "congratulations."
The sarcasm wasn't lost on Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ).
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Biggs and his colleagues sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security to address recent reports that illegal aliens are being transported around the country without travel identification required for air travel. Representatives Babin, Gaetz, Cloud, Roy, Gosar, Duncan, and Hice joined the letter to Acting Secretary McAleenan.
Read the text of the letter below:
June 7, 2019
A group of House conservatives is seeking details on Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies for screening undocumented immigrants at airports.
In a Friday letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees TSA, the Republican lawmakers raised concerns about which forms of ID are being accepted before boarding.
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, the Department of Labor released the May 2019 Employment Situation report. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
The surge of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border in May increased by about one-third from a month before.
The Central American migration boom that has been overwhelming Border Patrol agents for almost a year, but they took 144,278 illegal border crosserswere apprehended according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced official May numbers for illegal alien apprehensions at America's southern border. According to CBP, 144,278 aliens were "apprehended or deemed inadmissible at the southern border" and "more than 675,000 migrants have been apprehended or deemed inadmissible so far this fiscal year" – approximately the size of one congressional district. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
PHOENIX – One Arizona congressman said the American Dream and Promise Act was "right" and "smart." Another called it "disastrous."
As could be expected, local reaction to Tuesday's vote on the HR 6 immigration bill was split along party lines.
Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton spoke on the floor in favor of the legislation before the House approved it by a 237-187 margin.