Tag: Rep. Andy Biggs

‘Biden Border Crisis’ Investigation Begins

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) kicked off “The Biden Border Crisis – Part 1” Wednesday, arguably the GOP’s biggest issue in talking points against the second half of the current Biden administration. Jordan blamed Biden for a record number of migrant apprehension at the border over the past two years, NPR’s Morning Edition says, and took testimony from Brandon Dunn, whose 15-year-old son died last year from fentanyl poisoning. 

“It is open. The border is dangerous,” committee member Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) countered that the investigation amounts to “political theater.”

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McCarthy Wins Speaker Nomination

House Republicans have nominated Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for Speaker of the House, with 188 votes to Rep. Andy Biggs’ (R-AZ) 31 votes, per The Hill. McCarthy will need at least 218 of all 435 House members to become the next speaker.

As of late Tuesday, ahead of Donald J. Trump’s “very big announcement” at Mar-a-Lago, Republicans had clinched 217 House seats to the Democrats’ 206 for the 118th Congress, leaving 12 contests yet to be determined.  

McConnell Under Pressure: Meanwhile in the Senate, Florida Republican Rick Scott is challenging Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky for the minority leadership and is one of “several conservative senators who have called on McConnell to delay” the vote, Axios reports, until after the December 6 Georgia runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Trump-backed challenger Herschel Walker. 

McConnell and Scott, Axios says, have been feuding for months over midterm campaign strategy. No matter what happens, the Democratic Party already has clinched control of the Senate. If Warnock wins re-election, Democrats will have 51 seats to the GOP’s 49.

Question: Axios uses the term “conservative” to describe Scott and other senators calling on McConnell to delay the vote for minority leader. What does the news outlet consider McConnell?

--TL

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