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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WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the House passed its second appropriations bill to fund the federal government through fiscal year 2020. Rep. Greg Stanton voted in favor of the bill, which included several measures he pushed for on behalf of Arizona families.
"With this second funding bill, we continued to fight for smart, forward-thinking investments that can make a difference in Arizona," said Stanton.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-After months of Rep. Greg Stanton working with the House Judiciary Committee, today a bill advanced with unanimous Committee support to make Arizona's judicial system more accessible to residents in the northern and southwestern parts of the state.
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.
Despite what party leaders say, ordinary people care about Trump's lawbreaking.
Until quite recently, Democratic House leaders justified their refusal to begin an inquiry into impeaching Donald Trump by saying that it wasn't something their rank-and-file voters cared about. "I can tell you I never hear somebody bring up the Mueller report," Representative Cheri Bustos, chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in Chicago last month.
PHOENIX-Rep. Greg Stanton, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the House opening an impeachment inquiry:
It is time for the House of Representatives to move to the next stages of holding the President accountable, including the extraordinary step of opening an impeachment inquiry. This is a conclusion I reached only recently, and not one I reached lightly.
U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday he now supports opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, a sign of growing Democratic concern after the release of the special counsel's report.
"This is a conclusion I reached only recently, and not one I reached lightly," Stanton said in a statement released Thursday.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. Greg Stanton, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement following the markup of a Committee Report for Resolution recommending that the U.S. House of Representatives find Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the Committee:
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the war between the Trump administration and House Democrats.
The committee voted 24-16 along party lines to approve a resolution recommending that the full U.S. House find Barr in contempt for his refusal to comply with a committee subpoena seeking an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.