The person behind the name
Andy Biggs’s public career runs from the Arizona Legislature, where he rose to Senate President, to a decade in the U.S. House as one of its most reliably conservative votes.
It was a pleasure to tour downtown @CITYOFMESA this morning w/ Rodney Riley - VP @CaliberCo, Vice Mayor Mark Freeman, & Councilmember Jen Duff, & hear the plans for new growth & development. The East Valley is rapidly expanding, & businesses are experiencing great success. #AZ05
Biggs was born in 1958 and, by his official biography, is an Arizona native who has lived in Gilbert with his wife, Cindy, for more than 35 years. They have six children and twelve grandchildren. He was first elected to the U.S. House from Arizona’s Fifth District in 2016 and has served since January 2017. On July 21, 2026 he won the Republican nomination for governor with 453,819 votes, 74.0 percent of the Republican primary, and faces Governor Katie Hobbs in the November 3 general election. [1][3][10]
Education and professional preparation
His official biography reports a B.A. in Asian Studies from Brigham Young University, a J.D. from the University of Arizona and an M.A. in Political Science from Arizona State University. The campaign describes him as a retired attorney licensed to practice in Arizona, Washington and New Mexico. Degree years and bar records were not part of this review. [1][7]
A public life that began in the Legislature
Biggs served eight years in the Arizona House of Representatives and six in the Arizona Senate; in 2012 he was elected Senate President and held the office through the end of his Senate service. In 2016 he won the Fifth District Republican primary by 27 votes after a recount, 25,244 to 25,217, and went on to Congress. From 2019 through 2021 he chaired the House Freedom Caucus. In the 119th Congress he sits on the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, and on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. [1][2][25]
A note on the 1993 sweepstakes. In 1993 Biggs won a $10 million American Family Publishers sweepstakes, a fact he has discussed publicly (“I think we took our family to Disney World is what we did”). The payout structure and its bearing on his finances are not established by the sources reviewed here, and this profile makes no claim about his personal wealth. [27]
Life & public service
From the Legislature to Congress and back to a statewide campaign, the documented milestones show how his record was built.
The sweepstakes
Biggs won the American Family Publishers $10 million sweepstakes, as he later recounted to Roll Call. [27]
Arizona House of Representatives
Eight years in the state House, per his official biography. [1]
Arizona Senate; Senate President from 2013
Elected Senate President in 2012; the office he held while the Legislature fought over Medicaid expansion in 2013 and, in 2015, referred the school-funding amendment that became Proposition 123 — he was first-listed sponsor of the Senate version, SCR 1001; the measure transmitted to voters was its House twin, HCR 2001. [1][22][23][55][56]
Medicaid expansion and the lawsuit that followed
Voted against the 2013 restoration and expansion of the state Medicaid program and became lead plaintiff, with 35 other legislators, in a challenge to the hospital assessment that funded it. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled against the legislators in 2017. [21][22]
Sworn in to the 115th Congress
Took office January 3, 2017. [3]
Chairman, House Freedom Caucus
Chaired the caucus through 2021, per his official biography. [1]
Accomplishments, in the record
Legislative documents, court records and roll calls establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another official’s initiative.
Great to be with @CochiseCounty Sheriff Mark Dannels and my Border Security Caucus Co-chair @RepBrianBabin.
President of the Arizona Senate
Elected Senate President by his colleagues in 2012, Biggs led the chamber for four years. The official House biography records the role; the bill records of the period show him as first-listed sponsor of SCR 1001, the Senate version of the 2015 school-funding referral. [1][23]
The Senate version of Proposition 123
SCR 1001, introduced in the 2015 first special session by Senators Biggs, Allen, Begay, Dial, Driggs, Griffin, Kavanagh, Lesko, Pierce, Shooter, Worsley, Yarbrough and Yee, proposed the constitutional amendment on state-trust-land distributions to schools. The measure actually transmitted to the Secretary of State and placed on the ballot as Proposition 123 was the identical House resolution, HCR 2001, introduced by Representatives Gowan, Livingston, Montenegro, Olson, Robson and Stevens. Sponsoring the Senate version is documented; the referral itself carried the House sponsors’ names. [23][55][56]
The official canvass of the May 17, 2016 special election records 536,365 votes for and 516,949 against — 50.92 percent — certified by the Secretary of State on May 26, 2016. The measure was Governor Ducey’s initiative; the Senate President’s role was to move it through his chamber. [24]
Testing the Medicaid expansion in court
Biggs voted against HB 2010 of 2013, which restored and expanded the state’s Medicaid program and funded it with a hospital assessment, and became the lead plaintiff in Biggs v. Betlach. In a unanimous opinion on November 17, 2017 the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the assessment. The case established the constitutional question; the court answered it against the plaintiffs. [21][22]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Biggs voted Yea on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at House passage on November 16, 2017 and on the conference report on December 19, 2017. That is a recorded vote, not authorship; the campaign’s statement that he has “cut more taxes than any legislator in Arizona history” is a campaign superlative that this review did not measure. [54][9]
A law with his name on it
Of the 896 measures Biggs has sponsored since 2017, one was enacted in its own right: H.R. 4983, naming the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Gilbert for Staff Sergeant Alexander W. Conrad, signed January 5, 2021. Five of his bills have passed the House, including the Midnight Rules Relief Act, which passed twice (December 2024 and February 2025) without becoming law. GovTrack’s broader count of six “enacted” bills includes measures whose text was carried by other legislation. [48][4]
The most bills of any Representative
In the 118th Congress Biggs introduced 612 bills and resolutions, the most of any member of the House, drawing 3,060 cosponsors. Two of the 612 had a cosponsor from the other party, and none became law on its own. GovTrack’s analysis of the same Congress ranked him the 18th most politically right member of the House. [5]
A warrant requirement that failed on a tie
On April 12, 2024 Biggs’s amendment to require warrants under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed 212–212; he then voted against the reauthorization, which passed 273–147. [40]
Attendance and ideology, measured
Biggs missed 110 of 5,060 roll-call votes from January 2017 to September 2026 (2.2 percent), but 32 of 62 in July–September 2026 while campaigning. Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score places him at 0.818 on the conservative–liberal dimension in every Congress since 2017 — among the most conservative House Republicans by that measure. [4][6]
Family & community
His official biography identifies his wife as Cindy and says they have lived in Gilbert for more than 35 years, with six children and twelve grandchildren. [1]
In Congress he lists membership in caucuses that reach beyond his committee work, including the ALS, Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury, Japan, Taiwan and Second Amendment caucuses, and co-founded the bipartisan War Powers Caucus. [2]
Neither his official biography nor his campaign biography states a religious affiliation, and this profile makes no claim about one. The sources reviewed here document family, residence and public roles; they do not supply a verified record of charitable board service, and none is asserted.
This past week, my Deputy District Director and I toured Copper Springs new facility in Gilbert. This will be a great place for our veterans to receive help and care. Thanks for having me. #AZ05
In the community
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It was a honor to join the administrators, teachers, and students at Salk Elementary School this morning at their flag raising ceremony. These students have unlimited potentials in this state and country. I hope that they achieve all their hopes and goals. #AZ05
I met with Mitch, an East Valley veteran, to discuss his issues with the VA, and how he and my office are working to resolve those issues. #AZ05 is home to many #veterans, and my office is dedicated to helping those who seek answers from the federal bureaucracy.
Great to spend some time this week with Mayor @RobertYUribe to talk about border security and upgrades to the Douglas port of entry. Thanks for taking the time, Mayor. Good to see you in Washington, D.C.
I am grateful for Mary Ann Mendoza’s work to advocate for border security and enforcement of our immigration laws, & I am honored that she would attend the State of the Union as my guest. Congress can – & must – do more to secure our border & protect innocent American lives.
It was great to meet the Picketts from Chandler last week before their tour of the U.S. Capitol. Hope you both enjoyed your trip to the nation's capital and had a safe return to the best state and district in our union. #AZ05
It was a pleasure to tour downtown @CITYOFMESA this morning w/ Rodney Riley - VP @CaliberCo, Vice Mayor Mark Freeman, & Councilmember Jen Duff, & hear the plans for new growth & development. The East Valley is rapidly expanding, & businesses are experiencing great success. #AZ05
It was a pleasure to tour downtown @CITYOFMESA this morning w/ Rodney Riley - VP @CaliberCo, Vice Mayor Mark Freeman, & Councilmember Jen Duff, & hear the plans for new growth & development. The East Valley is rapidly expanding, & businesses are experiencing great success. #AZ05
It's always a pleasure to see people from back home in Arizona - especially leaders like Major General Michael T. McGuire. I enjoyed my conversation with Maj. Gen. McGuire before I left D.C. this afternoon. He is a tremendous leader and advocate for the @AZNationalGuard.
I took time this week to call one of our district’s veterans to check up on his health and case status. The members of my staff and I are so grateful for all of the men and women who have put on our nation’s uniform and protected our freedoms. #AZ05
Thanks to the thousands of East Valley residents, & to my special guest, Governor @dougducey, for joining me on tonight’s telephone town hall. I’ll continue to keep you all updated with the information I’m receiving from President @realDonaldTrump’s team + state & local leaders.
Earlier this month, @Boeing presented my office with models of the AH-64 Apache and CH-47F Chinook helicopters. Many of my constituents help to manufacture parts of the Apache helicopter, and I am grateful that the Chinook helicopter can be test-flown in my district. #AZ05
.@RepDLesko and I love serving our constituents in Congress, but we are ready to come home to our districts tonight. See you soon, Arizona. #AZ05
On the trail
U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs speaking with attendees at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs speaking with attendees at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs speaking with attendees at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs speaking with a supporter at a "Keep America Great" rally for President of the United States Donald Trump at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs with a supporter at a "Keep America Great" rally for President of the United States Donald Trump at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
U.S. Congresman Andy Biggs speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
His mission for Arizona
Bring down costs, secure the border, protect school and health choice, and make Arizona “the reddest state in the country.”
The following summarizes the agenda on Biggs’s official campaign website and in his campaign’s releases. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [8][9]
01Make Arizona affordable
“Bring down costs for Arizona families and businesses by growing our economy, lowering taxes, encouraging job growth, and reducing government interference.” [8]
02Eliminate the state income tax
Campaign ads describe his “vision of eliminating the state income tax in Arizona” and a promise “to never raise taxes on Arizonans as Governor.” He set out the case in July 2026 (“We need to compete”); The Arizona Republic asked how a revenue gap it put at roughly $6 billion would be covered. No replacement-revenue plan appears in the material reviewed. [9][49]
03Keep Arizona safe
“Partner with President Trump and local law enforcement officials to completely secure our Southern Border, crack down on drug and human traffickers, and fully fund our public safety departments.” On Univision Arizona’s “Al Punto Arizona” on September 6, 2026 he said the two trafficking hot spots on the Arizona line need personnel and that a state border-security force he would establish would work alongside the Border Patrol. The Arizona Fraternal Order of Police and AZCOPS endorsed him on September 4, 2026, per the campaign. [8][51][46]
04Secure Arizona’s energy future
“Prioritize the use and expansion of reliable and affordable energy sources to reduce rising utility costs and gas prices for every Arizonan.” [8]
05Restore sensible water policy
“Responsibly manage our water and land resources to ensure long-term growth and an increased supply of single-family homes.” On his official page in June 2026 he wrote that “Desalination will be a key water supply source for the Colorado River basin states, which is why we must get the Yuma Desalination plant operational.” [8][47]
06Protect school and health choice
07Ensure election integrity
“Sign election integrity legislation to deliver election results in a timely fashion and ensure only legal Arizona citizens participate in our elections.” [8]
08Abortion
SBA Pro-Life America grades him A+, and reporting documents his cosponsorship of federal abortion-restriction bills; his campaign did not answer a July 2026 question on whether he would seek further restrictions in Arizona. Since November 2024 Arizona’s Constitution has protected abortion before fetal viability, with a narrow exception for a compelling state interest, and afterward when a treating health professional judges it necessary to protect the pregnant person’s life or physical or mental health (Proposition 139, now Article II, § 8.1). In March 2025 he testified to the Arizona Senate Government Committee for HB 2547, which would have barred public contracts and grants to anyone who provides or “promotes” abortion: “This bill does not litigate Prop 139. It doesn’t condemn Prop. 139 nor does it advocate for Prop 139.” The bill passed the House 32-26 and died after the committee’s 4-3 vote. [57][30][44][52][53]
Last week, my staff and I met with officials from the @ArizonaDOT to discuss Arizona transportation issues, including the widening of Interstate 10. #AZ05
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
January 6 and the Select Committee
Biggs voted Yea on the objections to Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s electoral votes on January 6–7, 2021. The Select Committee’s final report says he texted the White House chief of staff on November 6, 2020 urging that state legislatures appoint electors, that he called the Arizona House Speaker on January 6, and that he did not appear for his May 26, 2022 deposition; it referred him to the Ethics Committee, and a witness testified that he sought a pardon. Biggs said the witness “is mistaken.” The report is the finding of a committee, not a court, and no Ethics Committee sanction appears in the records reviewed. Separately, on the pardons President Trump granted to January 6 defendants, Biggs told AZPM in August 2026, “I never made comment on the pardon. Some of them deserved it, some of them didn’t, but that was his decision to make, not mine”; the outlet also documented his November 26, 2024 post that “President Trump must pardon all J6 political prisoners on January 20.” That exchange concerned pardons for defendants, not the allegation that he sought one for himself. [11][12][13][14][15]
The Colorado City bill (2013)
The Hobbs campaign says Biggs “used his power as Senate President to block” HB 2648, a 2013 bill that would have stripped a town of authority over its police after certification revocations and a finding of systemic misconduct — aimed at the Colorado City marshal’s office. The record shows the bill passed the House 52-7-1 on March 7, 2013, was referred to the Senate Public Safety Committee on March 13 and died there; it does not record a presidential act. Biggs: “We heard bits and pieces of it. It was also under investigation by the feds at the time.” The sponsor has said the delay “protected the bad guys.” [18][19][20]
The Epstein-files votes
On July 23, 2025 Biggs was one of two members of a House Oversight subcommittee to vote against a motion to subpoena Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein; it passed 8–2 and he “provided no explanation.” On November 18, 2025 he voted Aye on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed 427–1. Both votes are in the record; ads that cite only the first omit the second. [16][17]
The “23 percent sales tax”
Biggs is an original cosponsor of H.R. 25, the FairTax Act, which would replace federal income and payroll taxes with a national retail sales tax; the Hobbs campaign’s ads describe this as a plan for “a sales tax on everything.” Biggs called the ads “a lie” and said the bill “was a vehicle to start a discussion about overhauling federal tax policy.” The cosponsorship is documented; the ads’ inference about what he would do as governor is a campaign claim. [41][42][43]
Votes against spending bills, aid and the Speaker
Biggs voted No on the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act, against every continuing resolution from September 2023 to December 2024, and Nay on all four foreign-aid bills of April 20, 2024; he voted Yea on H.R. 1 in 2025. He challenged Speaker McCarthy in 2022, received 10 votes on the first ballot in 2023 and voted to vacate the chair. Supporters read this as fiscal discipline; critics as obstruction. The roll calls are the record either way. [37][38][39][35][36]
What the ratings measure
Heritage Action scores him 98 percent for the current Congress (94 lifetime); the League of Conservation Voters 0 percent for 2025; SBA Pro-Life America A+; the NRA-PVF A; he signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The Club for Growth Foundation’s own scorecard, retrieved for this review and keyed to the same Bioguide identifier the Clerk of the House uses, gives him a lifetime score of 98 and a rank of 78 — 100 in every year from 2017 through 2022, then 97 in 2023, 95 in 2024 and 93 in 2025. His campaign reports a lifetime rating of 100 percent from the Club for Growth; the Club’s published lifetime figure is 98, and 100 is his record for the six years through 2022 rather than his career. His campaign also reports 100 percent lifetime ratings from National Right to Life and NumbersUSA and 97 from the American Conservative Union; those pages could not be retrieved for this review and remain recorded as campaign claims. [58][28][29][30][31][32][7]
Endorsements and the 2026 field
President Trump endorsed both Biggs and Karrin Taylor Robson in April 2025; Robson suspended her campaign in February 2026. Former Governor Doug Ducey endorsed Biggs in August 2026, and the campaign lists Governor Brewer among his supporters. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. [33][34][45]
Acknowledging a result
On Univision Arizona’s “Al Punto Arizona” (September 6, 2026) the interviewer noted that he had recently declined to say Governor Hobbs won the 2022 election legitimately and asked what evidence would lead him to acknowledge a loss in November. His answer, in Univision’s Spanish transcript: “bueno, si tenemos una gran elección, y creo que vamos a tener una gran elección, no creo que ella vaya a ganar. Así que ni siquiera tengo que preocuparme por eso. Y espero que ella diga que Andy Biggs es el gobernador” — in English, that if there is a good election, as he expects, he does not think she will win, so he need not worry about it, and he hopes she will say Andy Biggs is the governor. The question was not answered on its own terms; the premise about 2022 is the interviewer’s. [51]
The sources behind the story
Government records anchor the profile: the Clerk’s roll calls, the Arizona Legislature’s bill texts, the Supreme Court’s opinion, the Secretary of State’s canvasses. Official biographies establish attributed background; original reporting supplies responses and scrutiny. Independent analyses (GovTrack, Voteview) and advocacy ratings (Heritage Action, LCV, SBA Pro-Life America, the NRA’s political action committee, Americans for Tax Reform) are labeled as such rather than as government records. Campaign materials are used for the candidate’s own priorities and claims.
- 01About | Congressman Andy Biggs (official House biography)biggs.house.gov · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Official biography: education, family and residence, eight years in the Arizona House and six in the Senate, Senate President, Freedom Caucus chairman 2019–2021.Government / regulatory record - 02Committees and Caucuses | Congressman Andy Biggsbiggs.house.gov · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Judiciary and Oversight assignments in the 119th Congress; subcommittee chairmanship; caucus roles including Border Security Caucus co-chair.Government / regulatory record - 03Congress.gov member record, B001302Library of Congress (Congress.gov API) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Birth year 1958; terms from the 115th Congress; 935 sponsored and 1,485 cosponsored measures as counted by Congress.gov. Figures read through the Congress.gov API (api.congress.gov/v3/member/B001302); the linked public page shows the same record.Government / regulatory record - 04Rep. Andy Biggs — member page and missed-votes recordGovTrack.us · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Attendance: 110 of 5,060 roll calls missed 2017–Sept. 2026 (2.2%); 32 of 62 missed July–Sept. 2026. Enacted-bill count under GovTrack’s inclusive definition.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 052024 Report Card, Rep. Andy Biggs (118th Congress)GovTrack.us · Updated Feb. 13, 2025
612 bills and resolutions introduced, the most of any Representative; 2 with a cosponsor from another party; ranked 18th most politically right.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 06DW-NOMINATE member data (HSall_members.csv)Voteview (UCLA) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
First-dimension score 0.818 in each Congress from the 115th to the 119th. Rankings among House Republicans were computed from this file for this profile.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 07Meet Andy | Andy Biggs for GovernorBiggs for Arizona (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Campaign biography: retired attorney licensed in Arizona, Washington and New Mexico; self-reported interest-group ratings. Self-descriptions.Campaign source - 08Issues | Andy Biggs for GovernorBiggs for Arizona (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
The six campaign planks quoted in this profile. Proposals, not record.Campaign source - 09Press releases, Jan. 2025 – Sep. 2026 (118 posts)Biggs for Arizona (campaign) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Announcement, endorsements, ads, fundraising, the running-mate selection and the Sept. 10, 2026 coordinated television buy, in the campaign’s own words.Campaign source - 102026 Primary Election Official CanvassArizona Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · Canvass Aug. 6, 2026
Republican primary for governor: Biggs 453,819; Schweikert 88,284; Neely 42,871; Miceli 28,026. Democratic primary: Hobbs 512,550.Government / regulatory record - 11Roll call 10, Jan. 6, 2021 — objection to Arizona’s electoral votesClerk of the U.S. House · Jan. 6, 2021
Biggs recorded Yea; the objection failed 121–303.Government / regulatory record - 12Roll call 11, Jan. 7, 2021 — objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votesClerk of the U.S. House · Jan. 7, 2021
Biggs recorded Yea; the objection failed 138–282.Government / regulatory record - 13Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack (H. Rept. 117-663)U.S. Government Publishing Office · Dec. 22, 2022
The committee’s account of Biggs’s contacts with the White House and Arizona legislators, the subpoena he did not comply with, the Ethics referral and witness testimony on pardons. Findings of a committee, not a court.Government / regulatory record - 14How Republicans Have Responded to Donald Trump Pardons BombshellNewsweek · June 2022
Biggs’s response to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony: that she “is mistaken” and the testimony was “deceptively edited.”Independent reporting - 15Biggs denies support for pardoning J6ers, but the evidence is complicatedAZPM (Arizona Public Media) · Aug. 27, 2026
Biggs in 2026: “I never made comment on the pardon”; his Nov. 26, 2024 post calling for pardons; the disputed claim that he visited the D.C. jail.Independent reporting - 16Arizona congressional Republicans divided in their response to Epstein controversyKJZZ (Camryn Sanchez) · July 24, 2025
The July 23, 2025 Oversight subcommittee motion to subpoena Justice Department files passed 8–2; Biggs was one of the two no votes and “provided no explanation.”Independent reporting - 17Roll call 289, Nov. 18, 2025 — Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405)Clerk of the U.S. House · Nov. 18, 2025
Biggs recorded Aye; passed 427–1.Government / regulatory record - 18HB 2648 (2013): Police functions; revocation; officer misconduct — bill historyLegiScan · 2013; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Passed the House 52-7-1-0 on March 7, 2013; “Referred to Senate PS Committee” March 13, 2013; died in committee.Government / regulatory record - 19HB 2648, House Engrossed text (51st Legislature, 1st Regular Session)Arizona Legislature · 2013; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
The bill’s mechanism: a town loses authority over its police if a threshold share of officers lose certification and POST finds systemic misconduct; the sheriff assumes law enforcement.Government / regulatory record - 20Katie Hobbs accuses Andy Biggs of enabling FLDSKTAR · Aug. 28, 2026
The attack as the Hobbs campaign states it; Biggs’s response (“We heard bits and pieces of it. It was also under investigation by the feds at the time.”); the sponsor’s criticism.Independent reporting - 21Biggs v. Betlach, No. CV-17-0130-PR (Ariz. Nov. 17, 2017)Arizona Supreme Court (CourtListener) · Nov. 17, 2017
Unanimous opinion upholding the hospital assessment that funded the 2013 Medicaid expansion; Biggs was lead plaintiff with 35 other legislators who had voted against the bill.Government / regulatory record - 22HB 2010, 51st Legislature, 1st Special Session (2013), Chapter 10Arizona Legislature · 2013; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Chaptered text of the 2013 Medicaid restoration and expansion, including the hospital assessment Biggs later challenged in court.Government / regulatory record - 23SCR 1001, 52nd Legislature, 1st Special Session (2015) — introduced versionArizona Legislature · 2015; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
“Introduced by Senators Biggs, Allen, Begay, Dial, Driggs, Griffin, Kavanagh, Lesko, Pierce, Shooter, Worsley, Yarbrough, Yee” — the Senate companion to the measure referred to voters as Proposition 123 (HCR 2001).Government / regulatory record - 242016 May Special Election Official CanvassArizona Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · Certified May 26, 2016
Proposition 123: Yes 536,365, No 516,949 (50.92%); Secretary Reagan’s certification of May 26, 2016. Scanned canvass, transcribed for this profile.Government / regulatory record - 25Andy Biggs Wins by 27 Votes Over Christine Jones in Arizona CD5 Primary Election RecountPhoenix New Times · September 16, 2016
Recount result 25,244 to 25,217; the margin had been nine votes after the count and sixteen after eighteen court-ordered provisional ballots.Independent reporting - 26Conservative group attacks Arizona GOP candidate Christine JonesPolitiFact · Aug. 24, 2016
Club for Growth Action endorsed Biggs and spent “more than $340,000” against Jones in the 2016 primary; the fact-check rated the group’s claim Half True.Independent reporting - 27Take Five: Andy BiggsRoll Call · May 24, 2017
Biggs on the 1993 American Family Publishers $10 million sweepstakes: “I think we took our family to Disney World is what we did.”Independent reporting - 28Scorecard: Rep. Andy Biggs, 119th CongressHeritage Action for America · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Session score 98%, lifetime 94%; 82% for the 118th Congress.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 29National Environmental Scorecard: Andy BiggsLeague of Conservation Voters · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
2025 score 0%; lifetime 3%.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 30House ScorecardSBA Pro-Life America · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Biggs (AZ-05) graded A+.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 31Grades & Endorsements — Arizona 2026NRA Political Victory Fund · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Governor: Andy Biggs (R) A; Katie Hobbs (D) F.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 32Taxpayer Protection Pledge databaseAmericans for Tax Reform · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Lists Andy Biggs (AZ-05) as a pledge signer.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 33Trump endorses 2 Arizona Republicans in 1 race: Karrin Taylor Robson and Andy Biggs for governorKJZZ · Apr. 22, 2025
The dual endorsement: “my Complete and Total Endorsement to both.”Independent reporting - 34Karrin Taylor Robson drops out of race for Arizona governorArizona Mirror · Feb. 12, 2026
Robson’s suspension of her campaign, leaving Biggs, Schweikert and Neely.Independent reporting - 35Roll calls 2 (Jan. 3, 2023) and 519 (Oct. 3, 2023) — election of the Speaker; motion to vacateClerk of the U.S. House · 2023
First ballot: Biggs voted for himself and received 10 votes. Oct. 3, 2023: Yea on the motion to vacate the chair, 216–210.Government / regulatory record - 36House Republicans nominate Kevin McCarthy to serve as Speaker of the HouseNPR · Nov. 15, 2022
The conference vote of 188–31, McCarthy over Biggs.Independent reporting - 37Roll calls 145, 146, 151 and 152, Apr. 20, 2024 — Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific security supplementals and H.R. 8038Clerk of the U.S. House · Apr. 20, 2024
Biggs recorded Nay on all four.Government / regulatory record - 38Roll call 243, May 31, 2023 — Fiscal Responsibility ActClerk of the U.S. House · May 31, 2023
Biggs recorded No; passed 314–117.Government / regulatory record - 39Roll call 190, July 3, 2025 — H.R. 1, final passageClerk of the U.S. House · July 3, 2025
Biggs recorded Yea; passed 218–214.Government / regulatory record - 40Roll calls 114 and 119, Apr. 12, 2024 — FISA Section 702 reauthorization (H.R. 7888)Clerk of the U.S. House · Apr. 12, 2024
Biggs’s warrant amendment failed on a 212–212 tie; he then voted No on the bill, which passed 273–147.Government / regulatory record - 41H.R. 25 (119th Congress) — cosponsorsLibrary of Congress (Congress.gov API) · Sponsorship date Jan. 3, 2025
Lists Biggs as an original cosponsor of the FairTax Act, the basis of the “23 percent sales tax” advertising against him. Figures read through the Congress.gov API (api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/25/cosponsors); the linked public page shows the same record.Government / regulatory record - 42Katie Hobbs says Andy Biggs backed a 23% sales tax. Did he?The Arizona Republic · Aug. 20, 2026
Fact-check of the attack; Biggs said the measure “was a vehicle to start a discussion about overhauling federal tax policy.”Independent reporting - 43‘That’s a lie’: Andy Biggs calls Katie Hobbs campaign ads on 23% sales tax deceptiveABC15 · Aug. 13, 2026
Biggs’s on-camera rejection of the ads’ characterization.Independent reporting - 44Doctors warn Andy Biggs’ record on healthcare, abortion should alarm Arizona votersArizona Mirror (Gloria Rebecca Gomez) · July 23, 2026
Reports his cosponsorship of federal abortion-restriction bills and that the campaign did not answer whether he would seek further restrictions in Arizona.Independent reporting - 45Former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey Endorses Andy Biggs for GovernorBiggs for Arizona (campaign) · Aug. 4, 2026
The endorsement release, which also lists Governor Brewer, Governor Abbott and Arizona officials.Campaign source - 46Major Arizona Law Enforcement Groups Endorse Andy Biggs for GovernorBiggs for Arizona (campaign) · Sep. 4, 2026
Arizona Fraternal Order of Police and AZCOPS endorsements, as announced by the campaign.Campaign source - 47Congressman Andy Biggs (official Facebook page), posts of June 22 and Aug. 27, 2026Facebook (public page) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
His statements that “Desalination will be a key water supply source for the Colorado River basin states” and support for a federal education tax credit. Candidate’s own words.Campaign source - 48Bills sponsored by Andy Biggs, 2017–2026 (896 records)GovTrack.us (API) · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Status of every sponsored measure: one enacted in its own right (H.R. 4983, the Gilbert VA clinic naming, signed Jan. 5, 2021); five passed the House; the Midnight Rules Relief Act passed the House twice.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 49‘We need to compete’: Why Congressman Andy Biggs wants to toss Arizona’s income taxABC15 · July 24, 2026
The income-tax repeal proposal in his own words; the Republic (Aug. 18) asked how a roughly $6 billion revenue gap would be covered.Independent reporting - 50Andy Biggs Selects Sine Kerr as GOP Nominee for Lt. GovernorBiggs for Arizona (campaign) · July 31, 2026
The running-mate announcement in Arizona’s first election with a lieutenant governor on the ticket; Kerr served in the Arizona Senate 2018–2025.Campaign source - 51Andy Biggs promete reforzar la frontera de Arizona contra tráfico de drogas y personas (“Al Punto Arizona” interview)N+ Univision Arizona (KTVW) · Sep. 6, 2026
Spanish-language interview: staffing at the two trafficking hot spots, a state border-security force working with the Border Patrol, SNAP, and his answer on acknowledging a loss (“no creo que ella vaya a ganar”). Univision’s automatic transcript; the audio prevails.Independent reporting - 52Republicans advance ‘backdoor’ abortion ban despite voter-approved protectionsArizona Mirror (Gloria Rebecca Gomez) · Mar. 20, 2025
Biggs’s testimony to the Senate Government Committee for HB 2547: “This bill does not litigate Prop 139. It doesn’t condemn Prop. 139 nor does it advocate for Prop 139.”Independent reporting - 53HB 2547 (2025): Abortions; public funding; prohibition — bill historyLegiScan · 2025; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Sponsors Diaz and Marshall; passed the House 32-26-2 on March 3, 2025; Senate Government Committee Do Pass 4-3 on March 19, 2025; no further action.Government / regulatory record - 54Roll calls 637 (Nov. 16, 2017) and 692 (Dec. 19, 2017) — H.R. 1, Tax Cuts and Jobs ActClerk of the U.S. House · 2017
Biggs recorded Yea on passage (227–205) and on the conference report (227–203).Government / regulatory record - 55HCR 2001, 52nd Legislature, 1st Special Session (2015) — introduced versionArizona Legislature · 2015; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
“Introduced by Representatives Gowan, Livingston, Montenegro, Olson, Robson, Stevens” — the concurrent resolution, identical in text to SCR 1001, that was transmitted to the Secretary of State as Proposition 123.Government / regulatory record - 56May 17, 2016 Special Election — Election Information (Proposition 123)Arizona Secretary of State (Internet Archive copy) · 2016; accessed Sep. 15, 2026
“View Bill (HCR 2001) as Transmitted to the Secretary of State” — identifies HCR 2001 as the measure referred.Government / regulatory record - 58Congressional Scorecard — Rep. Andy Biggs (AZ-05), legislator page B001302Club for Growth Foundation · Accessed Sep. 15, 2026
Lifetime score 98 and rank 78; annual scores 100 in each year from 2017 through 2022, then 97 (2023), 95 (2024) and 93 (2025). Keyed to the same Bioguide identifier, B001302, that the Clerk of the House uses.Independent analysis / advocacy rating - 57Arizona Constitution, Article II, § 8.1 — Fundamental right to abortion; definitionsArizona Legislature · Adopted Nov. 5, 2024 (Proposition 139); accessed Sep. 15, 2026
“Every individual has a fundamental right to abortion,” protected before fetal viability “unless justified by a compelling state interest,” and afterward when “necessary to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.”Government / regulatory record
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Scope & method. Reviewed September 15, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; 139 roll calls were read for it and the defining ones are cited. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Historical sources do not imply current positions. A committee’s findings are labeled as such. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
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Where to find the candidate
Every link below was read off the campaign’s own site or the member’s official House page. Where a platform would not return a follower count to an automated request, the link is published and the number is left blank rather than guessed at.
The campaign
Recent coverage
Independent outlets first, campaign material second, each labelled for what it is. Dates are publication dates.
Independent outlets
From the campaign
- Sine Kerr Takes Campaign to Latino Voters on Prensa Arizona Interview
- Biggs for Arizona & Republican Party of Arizona Place $1.75M TV Buy
- Biggs for Arizona Releases New Ad: ‘Livelihood’
- Major Arizona Law Enforcement Groups Endorse Andy Biggs for Governor
These are the favourably-angled items from a 326-item press corpus covering June to September 2026. The full corpus, including everything unfavourable, is in the data pack. A page that showed only one side would not be a record.
Volunteer your time, or help your conservative candidate
Arizona is decided by whether a ballot that was already mailed comes back. Almost everything below is about that, and almost none of it requires money.
Yesterday, my office held its first volunteer meeting in preparation for my Drop Zone event for #AZ05 #veterans on April 4. We're excited about this event - dozens of vendors will be on hand to serve our honored veterans. Thanks to everyone working to make this event possible.
Do these first — they have deadlines
- Check your own registration, and fix it by 5 October.That is the last day to register for the 3 November election. If you have moved, changed your name, or skipped a cycle, you may be on the inactive list without knowing it — there are 687,826 inactive registrants in Arizona, 193,410 of them Republicans.
- Get on the Active Early Voting List, and then actually return the ballot.Ballots mail from 7 October. Roughly 83–88% of Arizonans vote before Election Day. A ballot that sits on a kitchen counter is the single most common way a Republican vote is lost in this state.
- Sign the envelope, and sign it the way you always have.Maricopa County rejected 7,220 ballots for a mismatched signature in 2024, and its rejection rate has since more than doubled. A missing signature must be fixed by 7 p.m. on Election Day; a mismatched one can be corrected up to five days after. Both are fixable and both are free.
- Mail it by 27 October, or take it to a drop box or a Vote Center.Arizona law requires the ballot to be received by 7 p.m. on 3 November — a postmark does not count. In Maricopa County you can now take a mail ballot to a Vote Center, show identification, and run it through the tabulator yourself, and it is included in election-night results.
Give time rather than money
- Become a precinct committeeman.The precinct committeemen are the party’s actual machinery — they fill legislative vacancies, they run the neighbourhood programs, and most precincts are not full. Your county committee, below, has the application.
- Work a signature-cure desk in the last week.It is the cheapest vote in Arizona: the ballot is already cast and the voter has already chosen. A cure operation that reached 3,400 voters decided Arizona’s 2022 attorney-general race, which was won by 280 votes.
- Chase early ballots, do not collect them.The county recorder gives the party a daily list of who has already returned a ballot, so a volunteer is calling people who have not. Never take anyone else’s ballot. Carrying another person’s early ballot is a class 6 felony in Arizona unless you are family, a household member or a caregiver. Ask them to mail it or drive them to a box.
- Be a poll observer, and be trained for it.Counties run 254 Vote Centers in Maricopa alone. The party trains and credentials observers; the training is the part that matters.
- Talk to people who already agree with you.Arizona is not short of Republicans; it is short of Republicans who returned the ballot. The most useful conversation you will have is with a relative who votes sometimes.
Who to call in your county
These are the county Republican committees, read off each committee’s own page on 15 September 2026. They are the organisations that run the ballot-chase and cure programs, and they are who to contact to volunteer.
| County | Chair | Contact | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maricopa | Craig Berland | chair@maricopacountygop.org · 602-898-7292 · maricopagop.org/mcrc-executive-board | 7030 W. Oakland St., Suite 101, Chandler |
| Pinal | Kirk Fiehler | chair@pinalcountygop.org · 520-444-5013 · pinalcountygop.org/pcrc-executive-officers | Meets the third Saturday, 10 a.m.–noon, Christ the Victor Church, San Tan Valley |
| Yuma | Bill Regenhardt | chairman@yumagop.com · yumagop.com | 255 W. 24th St., Yuma |
| Yavapai | — | info@ms.yavgop.org · 928-776-4500 · www.yavgop.com | 112 E. Union St., Suite B, Prescott — a permanent office |
| Mohave | Janet Wilson | mohavecountygop.com | Three district headquarters: Kingman, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City |
| Pima | Kathleen Winn | pimagop.org | — |
Six of Arizona’s fifteen counties had no committee contact published at the time of this build. Where a committee publishes conflicting names on different pages, both are noted in the county board rather than one being chosen silently.
Ideas, questions, corrections
A monitored address for this page has not been set yet. Until it is, corrections should go to the county committee nearest you, listed above.
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