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GILBERT, ARIZONA - Last evening, President Donald Trump authorized National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
In 2014, Americans were disgusted by scandals in the Veterans Administration (VA), involving wait lists and falsified reports and records. The epicenter of these misdeeds was the Phoenix VA system, but many veterans at other VA centers around the country encountered similar nightmares.
Changes were needed, but change has not come quickly enough. There is still too little accountability, too much incompetency and corruption, and not enough results at the VA. That is why I am requesting that VA Secretary David Shulkin resign.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate passed the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act last night by unanimous consent, sending it to the White House to be signed into law. Congressman Biggs, the sponsor of the House legislation, and Speaker of the 23rd Navajo Nation Council LoRenzo Bates (Nenahnezad, Newcomb, San Juan, T'iis Tsoh Sikaad, Tse'Daa'Kaan, Upper Fruitland) issued the following statements:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the omnibus spending package for Fiscal Year 2018. Congressman Biggs voted against the legislation and issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, Congressman Andy Biggs submitted two amendments to the omnibus bill. The first amendment would have reduced Special Counsel Robert Mueller's salary to zero.The second would have prohibited sanctuary cities from receiving certain federal grant funds from the Department of Justice. Both amendments were rejected by the Rules Committee.
An Arizona lawmaker wants to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities by amending a spending bill keeping the government running through September.
The amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., would withhold two kinds of federal grants to cities and other jurisdictions that don't cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing immigration law, The Hill reported.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018. Congressman Andy Biggs, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, Victor Riches with the Goldwater Institute, Jason Pye with FreedomWorks, Andrew Clark with Americans for Prosperity, and Laura McLinn released the following statements:
Members of the House Freedom Caucus plan to introduce amendments to the omnibus in an attempt to negate some of the provisions they don't agree with in the massive spending package.
The legislative text of the $1.3 trillion bill was released late Wednesday and conservatives have taken issue with a number of provisions slated to make it into the finalized measure.
The House of Representatives passed on party lines Wednesday evening a bill designed to let very sick patients request access to experimental medicines without government oversight.
The passage of the bill, known as right-to-try, is a big victory for the small libertarian think tank that crafted the proposal — and for a White House that has vigorously campaigned for the law. And it comes one week after Republicans failed to pass a similar measure through an expedited process that needed two-thirds support from the chamber.
In June 2017, I officially called for Robert Mueller to recuse himself from the investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election. I believed that Mr. Mueller's recusal was necessary because of former FBI director James Comey's manipulative leaks of potentially classified government memos and the appointment of hyperpartisan prosecutors to the special counsel's team.