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Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton released the following statement in response to the consensus-based proposal to protect the stability of the Colorado River by conserving at least 3 million-acre-feet of system water through the end of 2026: "Today's agreement among the Lower Basin states is...

Today, a bipartisan group of Members of Congress announced the relaunch of the Congressional Caucus of Former Local Elected Officials for the 118th Congress. This caucus, first formed in 2021 in coordination with the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National League of Cities (NLC), brings together Members of Congress with prior service in local government to improve our nation's intergovernmental partnership, provide up-to-date information about mutual policy interests to Members of Congress and their staffs, and ensure the local government voice is heard in federal decision-making.

Rep. Greg Stanton and Rep. Zach Nunn of Iowa have teamed up to introduce bipartisan legislation that would ban Members of Congress from trading or holding individual stocks.

Rep. Greg Stanton spoke on the House floor this afternoon, urging his colleagues to work in good faith to invest in border security while modernizing our broken immigration system.

Today, New Democrat Coalition Immigration and Border Security Task Force Chair Greg Stanton (AZ-04) led 44 of his colleagues in calling for meaningful bipartisan action to address the crisis at the southern border and strengthen our economy. In the letter to House leadership, Stanton made clear that the Republican's ineffective H.R. 2 will weaken the nation's border security by diverting law enforcement resources away from preventing drug trafficking and intercepting national security threats to detaining asylum seekers and criminalizing Dreamers.

"This week, our Republican colleagues will attempt to rush through an ineffective, unserious bill that will wreck our economy and make the challenges on our Southern Border worse. This extreme and partisan proposal is not a real solution to the challenges we are seeing today.

"This Administration has insisted for months and months that it would be ready to handle the surge of traffic once Title 42 is lifted-but it has proven unable to even adequately deal with the border traffic we have now. They are only fooling themselves, and those of us who work with communities on the front lines know better.

Rep. Greg Stanton's legislation to combat international fentanyl and synthetic opioid trafficking passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this morning, earning unanimous, bipartisan support. The bill now heads to the House floor for consideration. Stanton's legislation, the American Cooperation with Our Neighbors Act, will bring law enforcement, local governments, and non-governmental organizations in the United States and Mexico together to combat the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.