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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Biggs voted YES on Congressman Amash's USA Rights Act amendment and NO on the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
"I was disappointed to see this amendment fail. This legislation would have repealed an unconstitutional search provision within Section 702 by requiring a warrant to access information in the database relating to U.S. persons. Sadly, today was a missed opportunity to defend Americans from both terrorists and privacy invasions.
PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate said it was close to agreement on immigration issues that included the futures of thousands of young people in the country, but one Arizona congressman still objects on principle.
"We're getting the cart before the horse," U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said Thursday on KTAR 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News. "We need to build the wall first."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup blocked the Trump administration's decision to end the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Last night, the Department of Justice (DOJ) acquiesced to a congressional demand to turn over any documents related to the Russian dossier and to make available key witnesses for Capitol Hill testimony. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
It is a great honor to serve in Congress. This year has been an exciting and busy one. I promised that I would introduce a series of bills: repeal Common Core; Grant's Law to prevent catch-and-release immigration programs, require Congress to balance a budget or forfeit salary; require Congress to live under the same laws that it requires all Americans to live under (such as Obamacare); divide Arizona out of the uber-liberal 9th Federal Circuit and join other Western states in a new 12th Judicial circuit; and the REINS Act to reduce onerous federal regulations.
When the full story comes out about 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and the FBI, it will be the "scandal of a lifetime," Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday.
Representative Andy Biggs (R) penned an op-ed in USA Today calling for special counsel Robert Mueller to recuse himself in the investigation into Russian meddling into the 2016 election due to an "investigation [that] is clearly careening far beyond the scope of his original charge."
An Arizona Republican is calling on special counsel Robert Mueller to recuse himself from the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in an op-ed published Wednesday.
Writing in USA Today, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said Mueller's investigation has gone "far beyond the scope of his original charge."
In May, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Today, Mueller's investigation is clearly careening far beyond the scope of his original charge. Unfortunately, taxpayer resources are being used to scrutinize anyone and anything that fits into a preconceived notion that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to "fix the election."