Andy Biggs

It's not a political issue. It's a personal choice.

It's alarming that President Biden's main focus seems to be trying to get people fired from their jobs as opposed to putting more time and effort into some of these alternatives.

It seems, coming out of the Biden administration, it has been more of a one-size-fits-all approach and more of a top down kind of bullying, shaming approach just on vaccine mandates.

I was excited to learn about the chairman's bill when he introduced it with Representative Walberg, the FAIR Act, and I wholeheartedly support its goals and policies.

Those protections were a great start, and I am thrilled to be here to learn more about how we can further reform our civil asset forfeiture laws.

I had my asset seized by the Internal Revenue Service in 2013, over $940,000, without warning and without ever being charged with a crime.

Civil asset forfeiture laws infringe upon Americans' due process and property rights.

I think a more pressing and, in fact, an even more important question is whether the fourth branch, the bureaucracy, has grown too big.

I would refer you to my written testimony on this.

I think they should, but I think there should be a fair amount of discretion involved in the sense that telework shouldn't be just seen as an employee perk where everybody gets it or everybody doesn't get it.

We have become--because of this overwhelming spending, quite frankly, of both parties an expansion of government into all places and all things from the Federal level.

While the border is porous and 200,000 people are being apprehended every month, another 100,000 are illegally entering who we don't know where they are coming from. They are not caught; they are gotaways this administration is going to…

That is where it is. That is where the fire is starting, right there at the level of the people. And if we are going to save this country--I tell people all the time--it is going to come from the grassroots. It is going to come from the…

The gentleman from Texas talks and reminds us of all of this, and we are seeing it. Like my friend, I keep a folder in my computer of story after story of people fighting back saying: No. We are not going to kowtow; we are not going to bow…

Amen. People say, looking around, they get so depressed and frustrated when they see the horrible and horrific impacts of the policies coming out of this administration, not the least of which is the curtailing of their freedoms.

But doggone it, it should not be mandated by a tyrannical government. And this is the tip of the spear on a fascist-style government, in my opinion.

That is what you are seeing, Mr. Speaker. I just got a tweet just 20 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago. We are seeing one of our big companies, one of my big defense contractors in Arizona had an employee walkout today. They don't want this. Do…

Guess what is happening, Mr. Speaker? The mayor there is trying to put pressure on them. Guess what, Mr. Speaker? Indiana cities are offering jobs to those Chicago police officers. If they come here, we are not going to mandate that.

I agree 100 percent. We have other places where the employees are fighting back. You have got the Chicago police union. God bless them.

They are recruiting youth because they are not going to be prosecuted as adults. They are going to get off easier.

Just on that, I have got to comment on this because when the gentleman said he had an American citizen, the driver, as an employee of the cartel, we see that all up and down the border, and they want to get youth to do it as well because…

You know what? He was trying to enact policies to stop that. They brought lawsuits to prevent stopping that. Now that their administration has basically adopted an open borders policy, a dangerous policy for the people coming across, a…

I went down to the border multiple times. I took codels down to the border so folks could see how bad it was. That was my President.

When you say that, I am reminded of the surge of 2019. That surge in 2019 happened. I know you went down to the border multiple times.

I agree with you 100 percent. If they would enforce our law, we wouldn't need to be standing here. We had the Attorney General today come in.