Tag Archives: Andy Biggs

The Hill reports: Republican lawmakers are mocking the Biden administration after a pilot ejected from an F-35 on Sunday and sent the military scrambling to find the fighter jet in South Carolina. “How on earth did the Biden Administration lose track of an $80 million F-35 jet?” wrote Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on X. “What else are they losing?” “This …

Mediaite reports: House Republican Andy Biggs (R-AZ) joined Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday and accused President Joe Biden and his family of potentially taking in over $100 million – a wild corruption accusation that blows past anything other GOP politicians have levied. “Maria, we’re talking literally, it’s not $10 million. It’s it’s well over 20, $30 million. And …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs introduced two pieces of legislation Thursday that would hold the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, led by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, accountable for not addressing the crime in the city and for using federal resources to prosecute former President Donald Trump. The Daily Caller first obtained the bills, titled the …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of having “crossed a rubicon” after she slammed Republicans who intend to vote against a Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speakership. Responding to Greene’s accusation that he — along with others, including Matt Gaetz, are actively misleading the Republican base by voting against McCarthy—Biggs said: …

“We have to subpoena and get access to the entire 14,000 hours of the January 6th. No more — no more of this stuff that’s been kind of edited and cropped and out where they can — they, they have a narrative that they’re trying to craft that has gotta go away. “Christopher Wray will say, ‘Thank you, I’ll have …

“I don’t know if McCarthy will turn out to be the greatest Speaker in American history or the worst Speaker in history. “That can be dealt with after the fact, but right now Biggs is deceiving his constituents, deceiving the American people that he has some plan to go forward. “We’re losing our country. It’s unraveling, and Andy Biggs is …

Axios reports: Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the former chair of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, on Tuesday announced he is running against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for speaker of the House. Biggs cited instances where McCarthy was disloyal to Trump, such as privately floating censure in the aftermath of Jan. 6 and his initial support for Rep. Liz Cheney …

Freedom Caucus Rep. Andy Biggs writes: During this midterm campaign, I attended hundreds of events in my district, around Arizona, and around the country. The issue I was asked about most often was whether I or the Republicans in the House, or the Republicans in the Senate, would keep the same leaders. Not only did my constituents want the “red …

NBC News reports: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday easily defeated conservative Rep. Andy Biggs to win the GOP nomination for speaker of the House. But that was the easy part for McCarthy. The 188-31 closed-door, secret-ballot vote illustrates what his conservative foes have been saying for the past week: McCarthy hasn’t secured the 218 Republican votes needed to …

Fox News reports: Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs is planning to challenge House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy for the GOP nomination to be speaker of the House when the caucus convenes Tuesday to choose its nominee, GOP sources said Monday evening. “Andy Biggs will be a candidate,” said Rep. Bob Good of Virginia. “He will announce tomorrow.” Good, like Biggs, is …

Fox News reports: “I would say maybe not so fast. Maybe we should have a good discussion within the confines of our internal body,” Biggs said. “Look, we were told we were going to have an incredible, incredible wave. And if that would’ve been the case, any 20, 30, 40-seat margin, anywhere in there you would say, okay, Kevin is …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is calling for a congressional hearing to investigate the 2020 presidential election fraud claims made by Dinesh D’Souza in the recently-released 2000 Mules. In a letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) obtained by CNN’s Melanie Zanona, Biggs, a vocal Donald Trump supporter, calls the claims made by D’Souza, a fellow Trump supporter, in the …

The Daily Kos reports: During a Saturday interview on Real America’s Voice, Rep. Andy Biggs argued that President Joe Biden’s administration has “hatred to America, its people and its military.” “I want to follow up with that,” host Anna Perez said. “It does seem like, even you look at some of the things that they’re doing with the woke stuff. …

The Independent reports: Representatives Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Louis Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Scott Perry were among the Republican members of Congress who asked then-president Donald Trump to insulate them from future prosecutions by granting them presidential pardons. Their names were revealed by the House January 6 select committee on Thursday at the end of the panel’s …

The Hill reports: Rusty Bowers, the Republican Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, said that Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the former chair of the House Freedom Caucus, called him on the morning of Jan. 6 asking him to support the decertification of electors. “He asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been sent from …

Mediaite reports: Speaking on the House floor, Rep. Andy Biggs railed against the legislation and said Democrats “don’t care about Second Amendment rights.” The congressman said teachers should be allowed to carry firearms instead. Later, he talked about the need to “harden the schools” in terms of the physical security of the buildings. Democrats have largely panned the idea and …

CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is taking the extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who have rejected the panel’s requests to voluntarily cooperate. In addition to McCarthy, the Democrat-led panel is subpoenaing Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks …

The Associated Press reports: Three more House Republicans received requests Monday to voluntarily appear before the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection, including an Alabama Republican who says Trump is still pushing allies to help him overturn his loss in the 2020 election. The select committee sent letters to Reps. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Ronny Jackson — three …

Politico reports: Deposition excerpts filed by the Jan 6. select committee — part of an effort to force former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to appear for an interview — suggest that some of Trump’s top allies in Congress were frequently present in meetings where a handful of strategies to prevent Joe Biden from taking office were discussed, …

Courthouse News reports: Attorneys for three Arizona lawmakers tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told a Maricopa County judge Wednesday that voter-initiated complaints seeking to disqualify the candidates should be thrown out. The lawsuits against U.S. Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and state Representative Mark Finchem, a Republican from Oro Valley, claim they violated section …