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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in the case of JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES L. L. C. ET AL. v. RUSSO to overturn a Louisiana abortion law designed to protect mothers from doctors who did not have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Congressman Biggs, who had previously signed an amicus brief in support of the law, released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Andy Biggs, along with Representatives Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Abraham (La.) and Greg Steube (Fla.), sent a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, expressing concerns with reports that the VA has issued new guidance that is limiting access to health care choices for veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration in contravention of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 access standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Biggs introduced the Space Research Innovation Act to allow the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to partner with universities to conduct deep-space research and mission development.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tonight, House Democrats voted to pass H.R. 7120, their attempt to nationalize state and local police departments across the nation. Congressman Biggs voted against this legislation and issued the following statement:
It has been said that Washington politics is like a NASCAR race, everyone is constantly making left turns. Democrats are turning left at 180 miles per hour while Republicans take the left turns at 120 miles per hour. Republicans need to stop racing. Get off of the track.
Don't like that analogy? How about this one: Stop digging the hole, it is already deep enough. How about this metaphor: Democrats are kicking in the door to Marxist, totalitarian rule, while Republicans are turning the doorknob.
Why do we always fight on the radical left's turf?
It is hard to have a rational discussion when a person rejects the notion of looking at facts. Those who rely solely on feelings insist on denying facts, data, and science. They trust intuition and feelings, not reality. That's why the saying, "My facts don't care about your feeling," has gained traction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Congressman Andy Biggs led a letter to House Armed Services Committee leadership urging their opposition to any anti-border security measures in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. U.S. Representatives Paul Gosar, W. Gregory Steube, Jodey Arrington, Markwayne Mullin, Glenn Grothman, Debbie Lesko, Andy Harris, Ted Budd, Tom Tiffany, Randy Weber, Michael Cloud, Gregory F. Murphy, Ben Cline, Jody Hice, Chip Roy, Michael Guest, Steve King, Greg Gianforte, Ron Wright, Ken Buck, and Jim Hagedorn co-signed this letter.
America, and my home state, Arizona, are at a crossroads. We have two roads we can take. One is a return to the path of freedom; the other is totalitarianism. This is not necessarily a partisan issue or even a left/right problem. It is a potential permanent alteration of who we are as a people.
Nothing typifies this more fully than the mandates to wear masks that some governors and mayors are imposing on their citizens. That so many in our country are immediately acquiescent in the broad implementation of mandated masks reveals that we may have lost our way, perhaps irretrievably.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision on Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, vacating the Trump administration's rescission of the unlawful Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on the conclusion that "the Acting Secretary did violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)." Congressman Biggs issued the following statement: