Biggs, Andy (1958- )
‘I Might Wind Up in the Broom Closet’: Why Eli Crane Defied Kevin McCarthy
Before entering politics, Mr. Crane served five wartime deployments and 13 years in the military. He then started Bottle Breacher, a company featured on the reality show “Shark Tank,” whose signature product was a .50-caliber bullet fashioned into a bottle opener and marketed as a gift for men and groomsmen. He became a brand ambassador […]
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House Passes $840 Billion Military Policy Bill
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed an $840 billion policy bill that would increase President Biden’s requested Pentagon budget by $37 billion, reflecting a growing bipartisan appetite in Congress to ratchet up military spending amid new threats from Russia and China. The legislation would grant a 4.6 percent pay raise to military personnel, limit […]
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What the Jan. 6 Panel Wants to Learn From 5 G.O.P. Lawmakers
WASHINGTON — In deciding to take the highly unusual step of issuing subpoenas to five Republican members of Congress, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack concluded that trying to compel their testimony was important enough to justify an escalatory step involving their colleagues. All five of the Republicans subpoenaed on Thursday have previously […]
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Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas 5 Republican Representatives
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas on Thursday to five Republican members of Congress, including Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, who had refused to meet with the panel voluntarily. The committee’s leaders had been reluctant to issue subpoenas to their fellow lawmakers. That is an […]
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House Jan. 6 Panel Seeks Interviews With Three More G.O.P. Lawmakers
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol sent letters on Monday seeking interviews with three Republican members of Congress, and the panel said it had gathered evidence that some House Republicans sought presidential pardons in the aftermath of the violence that engulfed the Capitol. The committee is requesting interviews […]
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New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning
WASHINGTON — It was less than two weeks before President Donald J. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress would have what they saw as their last chance to overturn the 2020 election, and Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, was growing anxious. “Time continues to count down,” he wrote in a text message to Mark Meadows, […]
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In Call Before Jan. 6 Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’
One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr., joined a conference call with a group of President Donald J. Trump’s supporters and made an urgent plea. After assuring his listeners that the 2020 election had been stolen, Mr. Sullivan told […]
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Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’
The lawyers bringing the new suits believe they have a stronger case to show that the elected officials in question are insurrectionists. In the run-up to Jan. 6, Mr. Gosar and Mr. Biggs repeatedly posted the falsehood that Mr. Trump had won the election. Mr. Gosar organized some of the earliest rallies to “Stop the […]
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