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Oct. 29--Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is finally free to do something about its short -- and potentially unsafe -- air traffic control tower.

Thanks to the U.S. Senate passing the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, the airport will be allowed to spend around $20 million on a new control tower after years of not being able to build it because of an old, bureaucratic rule.

"All we've been wanting to do is spend our own money," airport spokesman Ryan Smith said. "We're not looking for a handout. We just to be able to spend our own money."

People fleeing violence rarely stop to grab a flag from their home country to display proudly as they slowly march to safety. The terrified typically plead for help rather than threaten those from whom they seek help. Those who have been victimized rarely attack potential benefactors. Supporters of people in distress wouldn't typically paint a swastika on the flag of the nation they are beseeching, before burning that flag.

The Phoenix VA Health Care System was the epicenter of an Obama-era scandal of corruption and mismanagement. The scandal happened at the expense of Arizona veterans, who, according to VA employees, waited more than a month to schedule their first primary-care provider appointment.

The problems persist. Some of my constituents continue to wait more than a month to obtain a doctor's appointment – even though they have urgent medical needs. Imagine the agony of waiting.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and the chief of strategy for government watchdog Common Cause raised concerns this week about the use of junkets taken by senior Justice Department officials this year.

"I think they can have an influence that's not wholesome and that can affect the notion of whether they're going to be independent investigators," Biggs told Hill.TV's Alison Spann Thursday.

"I think it should end, and it indicates that so much that's gone on that affects the independence of the police apparatus in the United States today," he continued.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) slammed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for what he called "massive conflicts of interests" in an interview that aired Friday on "Rising."

"I think he's got massive conflicts of interests," Biggs, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, told Hill.TV's Alison Spann on Thursday.

Glenn Simpson, whose Fusion GPS firm had commissioned a report describing coordinationbetween Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election campaign, showed up to for a Tuesday deposition on Capitol Hill and refused to testify. Simpson had already signaled through his lawyer that he'd be invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions, a decision he made after multiple Republicans on the panel suggested on TV that he could be in legal trouble.