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A $118 billion Senate foreign-spending package that includes sweeping changes to asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border has split Arizona's congressional delegation, but not neatly along party lines.
By: Mark Phillips
LUKEVILLE, AZ — A vote on an aid package to fund the wars in Ukraine and Israel as well as provide billions of dollars to upgrade border security failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.
Its defeat was expected. Republicans want stricter asylum laws in place before they consider voting to pass the bill.
By Monica Navarro
This week, Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton announced that the Arizona Department of Transportation will receive a $500,000 grant to help support efforts to re-establish daily passenger rail service between Phoenix and Tucson.
By Laura Gersony
U.S. Reps. Raúl Grijalva and Greg Stanton ahead of Veterans Day have each announced legislation geared toward helping U.S. military veterans receive benefits they earned through military service.
PHOENIX — Sandra Day O'Connor, who blazed a trail from Arizona to become the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, died Friday in Phoenix. She was 93.
The Supreme Court said she died of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.
By Ignacio Ventura
With an increase of migrants hoping to gain entry to the United States at the border with Mexico, lawmakers who represent Arizona at the federal level are looking for ways to handle the situation.
Speaking on C-SPAN in a U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Thursday, Rep. Greg Stanton described the imminent need to better manage immigration.
By Rafael Carranza
Arizona's congressional delegation is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for more answers about the Lukeville port of entry closure.
By Alisa Reznick
Now that House Republicans have chosen a speaker, Congress is getting back to deciding on legislation and government funding. That includes a multibillion-dollar request from President Joe Biden to fund various border security efforts.
Biden's request includes more than $13 billion in funding for additional security and processing measures at the border.
By Alexandria Cullen
WASHINGTON – Arizona lawmakers voted on party lines Wednesday as the House elected a new speaker, ending three weeks of what one representative called "weeks of political paralysis and dysfunction" in Congress.