Weekly Columns and Op-Eds

Democrats Attempt to Hijack our Election System By Rep. Paul Gosar Last week, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrat leadership rammed through the House of Representatives another liberal piece of legislation with every Republican, including me, voting against it.  H.R. 1, the For the People Act, is Pelosi’s top legislative priority for the 117th Congress. Riddled with provisions to… Read more »

I was one of 60 members of the House of Representatives to vote against the resolution condemning President Trump’s removal of American troops from the Syrian conflict zone. I did this because America simply has no business protecting the Turkish or Syrian borders – instead, we should refocus our efforts and energy to protect our own weak borders. Our Founding Fathers envisioned a… Read more »

In the past several weeks the nation has learned the terrifying lengths the DOJ/FBI went through to first stop President Trump from winning the election, then to get him out of office once he won. One of the more disturbing facts we have recently learned is that DOJ/FBI officials didn’t even read the warrants they were signing. Read more »

It is time to elevate this national health emergency to a National Emergency under the National Emergency Act and focus on the source of opioids that are killing our people--drug running from Mexico. Read more »

Before the end of the 115th Congress, we must send a bill to President Trump’s desk that finally secures our border with a wall and by ending “catch and release” and chain migration policies that encourage illegal immigration. We must attach this legislation to a must-pass funding bill, to ensure that it gets through both the House and Senate and to President Trump so he can sign it into law. Read more »

What a difference a presidency makes. Under the Obama administration, it was common practice to not only ignore immigration law but to endanger American citizens by releasing criminal illegal aliens back onto the street instead of deporting them. Taking a look at the available data, it is clear President Trump is keeping his promise to keep our country safe by deporting criminal… Read more »

It is very simple, at the end of the day this is a question about the constitution and who is the boss? I will not stand for unelected bureaucrats sidestepping their duties to the American people. Rosenstein was given plenty of time. Now he must go. I will fight with the last full measure of my efforts to make sure that the people’s representatives prevail. Read more »

Recently, severely misguided people, including members of Congress, have called to “abolish” ICE. To say this is short-sighted and ridiculous is being polite. Open border advocates favor criminals over taxpaying citizens. Open borders activists put our lives at risk due to terrorism, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and gun running. Their zeal to “transform” America into another third world S-hole knows few boundaries. Read more »

Click HERE to read the op-ed originally published by the Prescott Daily Courier.  Last week, the debate over the American Health Care Act dominated the news cycle. There was and remains a lot of misinformation surrounding this legislation, the worst being its claim to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” and I want to take a moment to cut through the noise and give you this… Read more »

Click HERE to read the orginal.  It should come as no surprise that President Trump won a majority of Western states not only in the primary election but also in the general election. These victories were because he recognized that an overreaching federal government had abandoned Western… Read more »