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GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Biggs introduced the Patient Access to Medical Foods Act to further expand treatment options for Americans.
The FDA currently defines medical foods as any food product that is specifically manufactured to meet a distinctive nutritional need. Unlike dietary supplements—a better-known but completely different product category—medical foods are often tailored to be consumed under ongoing physician supervision to help patients manage chronic conditions ranging from type 2 diabetes to Alzheimer's disease.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs introduced legislation that would strengthen penalties on illegal immigrants convicted of casting fraudulent votes.
The bill, which the Arizona Republican introduced on Friday, less than three months before Election Day, seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it an aggravated felony for illegal immigrants to cast fraudulent votes in federal elections.
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Biggs introduced the Voter Integrity Protection Act, which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make voting in a federal election (unless otherwise provided for under the federal criminal code) by an alien who is unlawfully in the United States an aggravated felony and a deportable offense.
Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, joined a chorus of Republicans defending the changes to the Postal Service and accusing Democrats in a sometimes-heated hearing of conspiring to create problems with this fall's presidential election.
"I want to clear up some obvious political disinformation that the majority is putting out," Gosar said at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting where Republicans defended cost-cutting moves by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
On Friday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Biggs (R-AZ) stated that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden's call for a national mask mandate is about "control" and an infringement on state sovereignty that Biden does not have the power to issue. Biggs further stated that "if they're going to start shutting down over flu every year as well, you're going to have a big problem going forward with centralized power."
Arizona Senators Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema joined Representatives Tom O'Halleran, Greg Stanton, Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs, David Schweikert, Ruben Gallego, and Raul Grijalva in urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to protect "free, fair, and reciprocal trade" with Mexico.
The letter comes amid discussions among Trump Administration officials over whether to implement a new "seasonal trade remedy" to protect growers in the Southeast U.S., which the delegation argues will hurt Arizona importers and shoppers.