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Andy Biggs

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Won the General, 2024 Arizona U.S. House District 5

Won the Primary, 2024 Arizona U.S. House District 5, Primary Election

Won the Primary, 2022 Arizona U.S. House District 5, Primary Election

Won the General, 2012 Arizona State Senate District 12

Arizona U.S. House, District 5 (2017 - Present)

Quick Facts
  • Full Name:
    Andrew 'Andy' S. Biggs
  • Gender:
    Male
  • Birth Date:
    11/07/1958
  • Birth Place:
    AZ
  • Home City:
    Gilbert, AZ
  • Religion:
    Mormon
  • Family:
    Wife: Cindy; 6 Children; 4 Grandchildren
Personal Details

Caucuses/Former Committees

Former Vice Chair, Appropriations Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Environment Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Legislative Council Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Chair, Rules Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Senate Ethics Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Space Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Energy (Science, Space, and Technology), United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (Science, Space, and Technology), United States House of Representatives

Education

  • Attended, International Relations, Arizona State University
  • BA, Asian Studies, Brigham Young University
  • JD, University of Arizona
  • MA, Political Science, Arizona State University

Political Experience

  • Attended, International Relations, Arizona State University
  • BA, Asian Studies, Brigham Young University
  • JD, University of Arizona
  • MA, Political Science, Arizona State University
  • Representative, United States House of Representatives, Arizona, District 5, 2017-present
  • Former President, Arizona State Senate
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Arizona, District 5, 2018, 2020
  • Senator, Arizona State Senate, District 12, 2010-2017
  • Majority Leader, Arizona State Senate, 2011-2012
  • Representative, Arizona State House of Representatives, District 22, 2002-2010

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Vice Chair, Appropriations Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Environment Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Legislative Council Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Chair, Rules Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Senate Ethics Committee, Arizona State Senate

Former Member, Space Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Committee on Oversight and Reform

Member, Committee on the Judiciary

Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Member, Subcommittee on Government Operations

Member, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Attended, International Relations, Arizona State University
  • BA, Asian Studies, Brigham Young University
  • JD, University of Arizona
  • MA, Political Science, Arizona State University
  • Representative, United States House of Representatives, Arizona, District 5, 2017-present
  • Former President, Arizona State Senate
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Arizona, District 5, 2018, 2020
  • Senator, Arizona State Senate, District 12, 2010-2017
  • Majority Leader, Arizona State Senate, 2011-2012
  • Representative, Arizona State House of Representatives, District 22, 2002-2010
  • Member, Arizona State Bar Association, present
  • Member, New Mexico State Bar Association, present
  • Member, Washington State Bar Association, present
  • Former Policy Advisor, United Families International

Other Info

— Awards:

  • #1 friend of the taxpayer, Arizona Federation of Taxpayers
  • Friend of Liberty, Goldwater Institute
  • Guardian of Small Business, National Federation of Independent Business

  • 4

Priority Issues:

If elected to represent you in Congress, I pledge to introduce these six bills in my first two weeks on the job.

  • 1. No pay for all Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed.
  • Congress has passed only one budget in the last 6 years. As a result, a national spending spree has ensued and our debt will exceed 20 trillion dollars by Election Day this November. This is unacceptable.
  • Americans work hard for their paychecks and do not get paid if they do not work; I believe Congress should be held to that same high standard. My "No Budget, No Pay" bill will ensure that Congress does not get paid if they refuse to do their most basic duty of creating and passing a balanced budget.
  • 2. Rein in the bureaucratic rule-making process from the executive branch and restore it to Congress.
  • Onerous rules and regulations perpetrated by faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats are crushing our productivity and devastating our economy.
  • I believe Congress should make the laws, not unelected bureaucrats. When I am elected, I will introduce a bill to take back Congress's law-making authority and restore accountability in Washington.
  • 3. End the ObamaCare loophole designed to benefit Members of Congress.
  • I believe Congress should under the laws it creates. Unfortunately, many in Washington, DC believe they are entitled to special treatment and have exempted themselves from the "train wreck" that is ObamaCare by exploiting a little-known loophole.
  • When I am elected, I will introduce a bill to force Congress to live under the laws it passes and close the ObamaCare loophole.
  • 4. Pass Grant's Law to protect innocent U.S. citizens from violent illegal immigrants.
  • In 2015 alone, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) released nearly 20,000 criminal illegal immigrants, including those convicted of murder, sex crimes, and drunk driving. These releases can no longer be tolerated.
  • Time and time again, we've seen these individuals apprehended and convicted of violent crimes, only to be let out the back door by our federal immigration enforcement agencies. This practice has resulted in the deaths of many law-abiding American citizens, including Grant Ronnebeck, an East Valley resident and store clerk, who was shot to death in a convenience by a criminal illegal immigrant who never should have been freed in the first place.
  • When I am elected, I will introduce Grant's Law, to keep criminal illegal immigrants, like Grant's killer, from being released onto our streets and into our communities.
  • 5. Repeal Common Core and return all control of our education policies to the states and locals.
  • I believe the education of our children is best handled by our local communities, not career bureaucrats, way off in Washington, DC.
  • When I am elected, I will work to free our local school districts from federal mandates and one-size-fits-all policies, like Common Core, and get back to local control of our education system. Our children's education is simply too important to be left to failed federal policies and they deserve nothing less than our very best.
  • 6. Remove Arizona from the 9th Federal Circuit Court and into a newly established 12th Federal Circuit.
  • The 9th Federal Circuit Court is too large, too overworked, too slow, and has 77% of its rulings overturned. In fact, it has been said that if the American federal judiciary system were to be designed from scratch today, the Ninth Circuit probably wouldn't exist.
  • States like California exert disproportionate influence over Arizonans in the Ninth Circuit, with half of the Circuit's population being Californian. By establishing a new 12th Federal Circuit, we greatly reduce the burden on the 9th Federal Circuit and ensure that Arizona's values are more accurately reflected, advanced and defended by the rule of law.

    • Policy Positions

    2021

    Abortion

    1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
    - Pro-life

    1 Quotes

    Budget

    1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
    - No

    2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
    - No

    2 Quotes

    Campaign Finance

    1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
    - Unknown Position

    Crime

    Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
    - Yes

    Defense

    Do you support increasing defense spending?
    - Unknown Position

    Economy

    1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - No

    2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - Yes

    3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
    - No

    Education

    1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
    - No

    2 Quotes

    Energy and Environment

    1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
    - No

    2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
    - No

    Guns

    1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
    - No

    1 Quotes

    Health Care

    1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
    - Yes

    2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
    - No

    2 Quotes

    Immigration

    1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
    - Yes

    2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
    - Yes

    National Security

    1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
    - Unknown Position

    2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
    - Yes

    Trade

    Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
    - Yes

    2019

    Abortion

    1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
    - Pro-life

    1 Quotes

    Budget

    1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
    - No

    2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
    - No

    2 Quotes

    Campaign Finance

    1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
    - Unknown Position

    Economy

    1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - No

    2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
    - Yes

    Education

    1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
    - No

    2 Quotes

    Energy & Environment

    1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
    - No

    2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
    - No

    1 Quotes

    Guns

    1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
    - No

    1 Quotes

    Health Care

    1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
    - Yes

    2 Quotes

    Immigration

    1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
    - Yes

    2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
    - Yes

    Marijuana

    Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
    - Unknown Position

    National Security

    1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
    - Unknown Position

    2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
    - Yes

    Congress Bills
    Speeches

    Representatives Biggs and Boebert Send Letter to Senate Opposing Nominee for Director of Bureau of Land Management
    Apr. 27, 2021Statement
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    Letter to the Hon. Joe Biden, President of the United States - Congressman Biggs Sends Letter to Biden Administration Calling for the Suspension of John Kerry's Security Clearance
    Apr. 27, 2021Letter
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    Letter to Joe Biden, President of The United States - Letter to White House Concerning the Border Crisis
    Apr. 26, 2021Letter
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    Articles

    Electoral vote certification on January 6-7, 2021
    Jan. 1, 1900

    Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Biggs voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The House rejected both objections by a vote of 121-303 for Arizona and 138-282 for Pennsylvania.

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    Events

    2020

    May 27
    LIVE: Narrative or Data? Former NYT Alex Berenson talks Covid-19

    Wed 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

    Apr. 4
    Cancelled - DROP ZONE

    Sat 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM MST

    American Leadership Academy - Gilbert North Jr. High - High School Gilbert, AZ

    Nov. 5
    Congressman Andy Biggs’ Senior Citizens Resource Fair

    Tue 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST

    2626 E Pecos Rd, Chandler, AZ 85225-2413, United States

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