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 - Three Arizona members of Congress were among the House Judiciary Committee members who questioned special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday.
Mueller, who previously said his report on the investigation was his testimony, faced congressional hearings on his 448-page report, the result of his two-year Russia probe.
Arizona's U.S. House delegation split along party lines Tuesday on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump for racist tweets Sunday about four minority Democratic congresswomen.
The anti-climactic result only hinted at a day of heightened partisan rancor in which members openly accused their opponents of being anti-American or of supporting racism.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The House today unanimously passed a bill to make Arizona's judicial system more accessible to residents in the northern and southwestern parts of the state. Rep. Greg Stanton has been working with the House Judiciary Committee for several months to advance the legislation.
Rep. Tom O'Halleran introduced H.R. 1569 earlier this year to amend the U.S. code to allow both Flagstaff and Yuma to hold district court proceedings. It has the support of every member of the Arizona delegation.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill backed by Arizona's entire congressional delegation that would expand access to federal courts in the state.
The bill was introduced by Democratic Rep. Tom O'Halleran in March and is co-sponsored by Arizona's eight other House members.
It would amend Title 28 of the U.S. code to add Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of cities that could hold federal district court proceedings.
For now, the 2020 Census won't ask respondents, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court delayed the inclusion of the controversial citizenship question on the Census, calling the justification the Trump administration offered for adding the question "contrived."
The ruling was welcomed by Democrats in Arizona. President Donald Trump said on Twitter he is looking into delaying the Census to allow time for the court to reconsider the issue.
In a statement, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego denounced the suggestion of a delay.
PHOENIX - Arizona Democrats celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday to put a hold on the Trump administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva praised the court's ruling.
"Despite Republican attempts to undermine our democracy & rig the Census against minority communities, #SCOTUS decided to uphold the integrity of both," he said in a tweet.
"I will continue fighting to ensure that every person is counted in the #2020Census."
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. Greg Stanton today responded to the Supreme Court's decision to reject the Trump Administration's request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census and send the case back to the district court. Stanton issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court handed a temporary victory Thursday to opponents of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, saying the government will have to go back and make a better case in lower courts if it wants to include the question.
That could be difficult for the Census Bureau, which had said that it needed a final ruling by the end of June to have enough time to print the millions of Census forms that must be ready for 2020.
The bureau did not comment on next steps Thursday, saying only that it had taken the court's ruling under review.