Confronting Government Corruption
It’s time for Congress to restore transparency in Washington and return political power to the people.
I’ve introduced a bill to ban Members of Congress from trading and holding individual stocks, so we can rebuild Americans’ trust that our government is working for the people, not politicians’ financial gain.
And when we were heading towards an unnecessary and potentially devastating government shutdown that would have put hundreds of Arizonans’ paychecks on hold, I called on House leadership to advance federal government funding legislation and supported bipartisan legislation to avoid catastrophic default and raise the debt ceiling.
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PHOENIX-Rep. Greg Stanton today issued the following statement regarding President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria:
In a congressional hearing that could have just as easily been plucked from the Arizona Legislature years ago, Democratic Reps. Ruben Gallego and Greg Stanton on Tuesday condemned the state's "ballot-harvesting" law.
State Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, faced a series of mostly unfriendly questions about her law limiting who can drop off early ballots in Arizona, especially because of its impact on Native Americans.
Changes to election laws and polling place closures since 2013 have had a disproportionately negative impact on members of federally recognized tribes in Arizona, tribal leaders and voting rights advocates told a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday morning.
Obstacles to voting in Indian Country were the dominant point of discussion Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing, which ended with a heated exchange between a Republican state lawmaker and several Democratic members of Congress.
The House Administration Subcommittee on Elections heard testimony from tribal leaders, researchers, activists and a state representative about the obstacles to voting faced by American Indians, rural voters, nonwhite voters and felons. The hearing was held at Phoenix College.
The voting rights of Native Americans in Arizona are routinely suppressed by a slew of requirements and practices, such as photo ID laws and a scarcity of polling places, Navajo and Gila River leaders said Tuesday at a congressional hearing in Phoenix.
"If someone from the Navajo Nation submits a ballot on Election Day without a photo ID, they have to go through so much additional documentation for their vote to be counted," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said.
PHOENIX (AP) - Two Arizona Democrats in Congress are calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached.
Reps. Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego on Tuesday went far beyond their prior support for an impeachment inquiry. Both Phoenix Democrats now say Congress should impeach Trump to defend the rule of law.
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona Congressman and former Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton released a statement early Tuesday afternoon calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment.
Stanton, who served as Phoenix mayor from 2012 to 2018, cited a "mountain of credible evidence" in his statement he published on his Twitter account. Stanton's statement comes just hours before Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin formal impeachment proceedings against the president.
WASHINGTON-Rep. Greg Stanton, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after revelations of President Trump's conduct relating to Ukraine:
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled the City of Phoenix cannot apply its LGBT-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance to penalize a local business for refusing to make custom-made invitations for a same-sex wedding, delivering a victory for groups seeking to justify anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of "religious freedom."