News List

Don't allow bad policy in lame duck By: Congressman Paul Gosar June 17, 2016 Published in the Washington Examiner Back in 1932, Will Rogers famously described the lame duck period in Congress to the New York Times: “It’s like where some fellows worked for you and their work wasn’t satisfactory and you let ’em out,… Read more »

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will suspend its proposal to limit boating activities at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, a decision hailed as a “victory for Lake Havasu” by Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar.Click here to read Read more »

Congress has a long and storied history of cramming through bad policy during the lame duck period while outgoing lawmakers are still around to vote and before newly-elected lawmakers assume office. These periods are often characterized by arm-twisting and backroom deals.Click here to read Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced that it would withdraw its draft recreational boating compatibility determination (CD) for the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge: Read more »

The Gosar and King amendments would prohibit any funds from being used to enlist illegal aliens who received deferred action through Pres. Obama's DACA amnesty into the military.Click here to read Read more »

Hoping to dramatize the issue of campus sexual assault, 18 members of the House took turns on Wednesday night reading portions of the 7,200-word letter a woman known as Emily Doe wrote to the former Stanford University student who raped her.Click here to read Read more »

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suspended its proposal to limit recreational boating activities at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge and will re-evaluate information before issuing a final decision.Click here to read Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the House Appropriations Committee passed the Gosar-Stewart amendment that blocks the proposed Grand Canyon Watershed and Sedona Monuments while also prohibiting the president from designating new national monuments under the Antiquities Act in other counties where there is significant local opposition, and attached the amendment to the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2017: Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the House Appropriations Committee passed the manager’s amendment to the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2017, which included language condemning the actions by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) for proposing new boating restrictions for Lake Havasu: Read more »

A bipartisan effort is underway in the House to use the Defense appropriations bill to protect the use of encryption in electronic devices.Click here to read Read more »