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After eight years of failing policies and executive overreach by the Obama Administration, the American people entrusted Republicans with unified control of the House, Senate, and White House. We promised our constituents that we would work quickly to restore constitutional order and take much-needed steps to revitalize our economy.

House Republicans, already divided on how to handle the federal budget, the debt limit, a rewrite of the tax code and more, have something new to tussle over: their summer vacation.

The decision announced Tuesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to curtail that chamber's recess by two weeks — from July 28 to Aug. 11 — to tackle unfinished business was not immediately embraced by House leaders.

Republican congressmen are now putting pressure on House leadership to delay August recess, just one day after the Senate decided to push its own recess back by two weeks.

The conservative group known as the House Freedom Caucus upped the ante in its calls to stay in session until key aspects of the Republican legislative agenda are fleshed out.

PHOENIX — An Arizona congressman said he has been left bewildered by the lack of productivity by his counterparts, despite Republican control of both Congress and the White House.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs told KTAR News 92.3 FM's Reality Check with Darin Damme on Wednesday that it seemed as if Republicans were being timid when it came to following through on longtime promises, such as removing the Affordable Care Act.

Members of the House's most conservative caucus again are calling for leadership to cancel the August recess so lawmakers can work longer on priorities such as health care and tax reform.

The latest pressure Wednesday from conservative lawmakers came after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the day before that the Senate will delay the beginning of its own recess from July 31 until mid-August.

PHOENIX — Some congressmen may have already been preparing for the annual August recess, but if one lawmaker from Arizona gets his way, everyone's plans will change.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday he has called on House leadership to match the actions of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who canceled the first two weeks of the usually sacrosanct August recess.