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WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (AZ-04) and Tony Gonzales (TX-23) this week introduced the bipartisan Highway Formula Fairness Act, legislation to allow rapidly growing western states like Arizona and Texas receive their fair share of federal Highway Trust Fund dollars. The Highway Trust Fund finances most federal government spending for highways, transit, and highway safety programs. Revenues come from transportation-related excise taxes-mostly federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, and the rest from heavy-duty truck-related taxes. However, these d

Stanton-led letter calls on Trump administration to preserve lifesaving LIHEAP funding as summer heat approaches WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (AZ-04) is leading Arizona's Democratic Members of Congress in a letter to President Donald Trump, urging him not to cut funding for a program that helps families afford air conditioning during Arizona's dangerously hot summers.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Rep. Greg Stanton released a statement in response to a memorandum from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to recipients of federal funding. The memo announced USDOT's formal intent to withhold grant funds from states and localities if they do not cooperate on federal immigration enforcement efforts or for maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Stanton said:

The legislation would require FEMA to fully fund the Congressionally-created Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, program WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Congressmen Greg Stanton and Rob Bresnahan, Jr. (R-PA) introduced legislation requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency to disburse funding through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program to help states prepare against natural disasters.

TEMPE-Today, Rep. Greg Stanton released the following statement after Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said he would withhold more than $1.5 million in federal funding from Tempe's Kyrene Elementary School District: "Tom Horne is threatening to defund Kyrene's Title I schools to score cheap political points-withholding money that Congress appropriated on a bipartisan basis. It's a boneheaded move that'll only hurt Arizona students.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Representative Greg Stanton and top Democrats introduced a privileged resolution to terminate President Trump's abuse of "emergency" authorities to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports. The Resolution would end Trump's declared national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), an authority he is using to levy a blanket 10% tariff on all imports, along with additional massive tariffs on dozens of key U.S. trading partners. Under the National Emergencies Act, a privileged resolution to terminate the emergency must be acted upon within 15 calendar days, otherwise, it must be brought for a vote to the House floor.