Andy Biggs

Tenure

Biggs voted in support of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.^[4] After the vote, Biggs said that the bill would "provide much-needed economic relief" to Americans and businesses, claiming “families will be able to save more money to send their children to college. We are already seeing the positive economic impact based on the promise of tax reform. When this bill is signed into law, we will see an even more robust economy.”^[5]

Biggs is a member of the Freedom Caucus^[6] and the Congressional Western Caucus.^[7]

Committee assignments

• Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet
  • Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
• Committee on Science, Space and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Environment (Chair)
  • Subcommittee on Space
• Republican Study Committee^[8]

State Senate

• 2010 When Republican Senator Thayer Verschoor ran for State Treasurer of Arizona and left the Senate District 22 seat open, Biggs was unopposed for both the August 24, 2010 Republican Primary, winning with 25,792 votes,^[11] and the November 2, 2010 General election, winning with 59,933 votes.^[12]
• 2012 Redistricted to District 12, and with incumbent Republican Senator John B. Nelson redistricted to District 13, Biggs was unopposed for both the August 28, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 19,844 votes,^[13] and the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 63,812 votes.^[14]

State House of Representatives

• 2002 With incumbent Democratic Representatives Richard Miranda running for Arizona Senate and John Loredo redistricted to District 13, and with Republican Representative Eddie Farnsworth redistricted from District 30, Biggs ran in the five-way September 10, 2002 Republican Primary, placing second with 5,778 votes;^[15] Biggs and Representative Farnsworth were unopposed for the November 5, 2002 General election, where Biggs took the first seat with 31,812 votes and Representative Farnsworth took the second seat.^[16]
• 2004 Biggs and Representative Farnsworth were unopposed for the September 7, 2004 Republican Primary; Representative Farnsworth placed first and Biggs placed second with 11,202 votes;^[17] for the three-way November 2, 2004 General election, Representative Farnsworth took the first seat and Biggs took the second seat with 51,932 votes ahead of Libertarian candidate Wade Reynolds.^[18]
• 2006 Biggs and Representative Farnsworth were challenged in the four-way September 12, 2006 Republican Primary; Representative Farnsworth placed first and Biggs placed second with 7,793 votes;^[19] in the three-way November 7, 2006 General election, Representative Farnsworth took the first seat and Biggs took the second seat with 38,085 votes ahead of Libertarian candidate Edward Schwebel.^[20]
• 2008 With Representative Farnsworth running for Arizona Senate and leaving a House District 22 seat open, Biggs ran in the four-way September 2, 2008 Republican Primary, placing first with 9,800 votes;^[21] Biggs and fellow Republican nominee Laurin Hendrix won the November 2, 2010 General election, where Biggs took the first seat with 59,615 votes and Hendrix took the second seat ahead of Democratic nominee Glenn Ray,^[22] who had run for the district's senate seat in 2006.

Abortion

Biggs opposes abortion of any kind. He supports overturning Roe vs. Wade.^[23]

LGBT rights

Biggs is a former policy advisor to United Families International, a nonprofit that opposes same-sex marriage.^[24] United Families International is on the List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-gay hate groups.

Net neutrality

Biggs has gone on record as opposing the issue of net neutrality, and favors FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to do away with governmental protections of the utility. In a letter sent to his constituents in reply to those favoring the continuation of Net Neutrality guidelines, Biggs has said that "the repeal of net neutrality also maintains consumer and anti-competitiveness protections enforced by the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission," and that he "(does) not believe that adding an extra layer of regulations will help to protect consumers. Instead, we should allow the free market to expand the internet and its services." Biggs, incidentally, has accepted campaign donations in the past in the amount of $19,500 from the same members of the Telecom industry that stand to profit from the elimination of Net Neutrality guidelines.^[25]

Robert Mueller

On June 23, 2017, Representative Biggs was one of three Republicans who called for the resignation of Robert Mueller, the prosecutor investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, on the grounds that Mueller can not conduct his investigation fairly because of events that happened when he had been the acting director of the FBI.^[26]

On March 19, 2018, Biggs renewed his call for Robert Mueller to resign.^[27]

On July 25, 2018, Biggs was among nine other Republican co-sponsors for a resolution to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,^[28] Robert Mueller's direct supervisor following the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.^[29]

Healthcare

In 2018, Andy Biggs sponsored a bill "designed to let very sick patients request access to experimental medicines without government oversight", which passed in the House by a vote of 267-149. Biggs stated the bill is "not false hope; It is hope."^[30]

American Family Sweepstakes

Biggs won $10 million in the American Family Sweepstakes and subsequently appeared in a TV ad with Dick Clark and Ed McMahon promoting the sweepstakes.^[31][32]