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May 30, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) reintroduced legislation to digitize and streamline the permitting process for transportation infrastructure. The Interactive Federal Review Act would direct the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to select a minimum of ten federal highway projects to demonstrate the use of interactive, digital, cloud-based platforms to speed up the environmental analysis and community engagement processes required in FHWA projects.

May 29, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), and Senators Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) demanded answers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) following reports that ICE abruptly detained multiple individuals who were attending their scheduled immigration court hearings in Phoenix last week.

May 22, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) released the following statement after House Republicans jammed through their unpopular budget mega-bill in the dead of night and along party lines. "House Republicans have spent months lying and hiding from their own plan, but here's the truth: this bill makes the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, kicking 300,000 Arizonans off their health insurance and raising prices for the rest. It kills tens of thousands of clean energy jobs in Arizona. And it jacks up the cost of living for the families I represent while handing massive tax breaks to billionaires.

May 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) issued the following statement today after the Department of Justice closed it's investigation into the Phoenix Police Department:

May 20, 2025
U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) introduced a discharge petition to force a vote on their resolutions that would terminate President Trump's authority to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada. This latest effort by Stanton and Meeks to force a vote on the tariffs comes after Republicans used a procedural move to block the vote last March.

May 16, 2025
Includes Utah Land Sale Which Could be Used for Controversial Pipeline to Take Water from Colorado River WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Susie Lee (D-Nev.) released the following statement in response to Rep. Mark Amodei's (R-Nev.) proposed amendment to sell off public lands.

May 12, 2025
WASHINGTON D.C.-U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), alongside Representatives Nick Begich (R-Ala.), Tracey Mann (R-Kan.), and Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), introduced the Air Traffic Controller Workforce Development Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation to tackle the nation's air traffic controller staffing shortage and invest in the future of American aviation.

May 7, 2025
WASHINGTON D.C.-Today, U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) led the Democratic members of Arizona's Congressional delegation in writing to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to demand that the administration reverse their proposed staffing and benefits cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Stanton was joined by Democratic U.S. Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, and U.S. Representative Yassamin Ansari.

May 6, 2025
WASHINGTON D.C.-In a speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) today mourned 14-year-old Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe who was brutally murdered earlier this year, and to express solidarity with the families and loved ones of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women across the country. Stanton also joined with a bipartisan coalition to introduce a resolution designating May 5 as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Stanton introduced the resolution led by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.).

May 5, 2025

By Bailey Leasure/KTAR News

PHOENIX — The city of Chandler has extended the contract of a public transportation service in the city for two more years.

Through an agreement with River North Transit, LLC, Chandler Flex's service will be extended through June 30, 2027. It was set to expire on July 1, according to Thursday news release.