WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) will reintroduce the School Resource Officer Assessment Act and the School Watch and Tactics (SWAT) Act, two bills that would strengthen school...
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Higgins: Ending Title 42 is a Grave Mistake
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, issued the following statement on the Biden administration's...
Higgins: Biden Administration Abusing Parole Authority at Southern Border
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, issued the following statement in response to media reports...
Higgins: “total disintegration of law and order” under Biden
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), the top Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, issued the following statement in response to media reports...
Higgins Slams Biden Executive Order on Law Enforcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), a former law enforcement officer, released the following statement and summary assessment in response to a leaked draft of President Biden's...
Higgins Issues Statement on Reinstatement of Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), the top Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected...
Op-Ed: Make Employer Vaccine Mandates Illegal
Employers across the country are telling their workers to take the vaccine or lose their jobs. As federal agencies and businesses move forward with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, workers are questioning...
Higgins Introduces Bill Protecting Vaccine Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) introduced today H.R. 4884, the Employee Rights and Freedoms Act, which would make it illegal for any employer to mandate an employee undertake any...
Higgins Demands Answers from DHS, ICE on Migrant Drop Offs in Louisiana
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), the lead Republican on the House Homeland Security Border Subcommittee, delivered a letter today to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and...
Higgins Reintroduces Bill to Help CBP Address Staffing Needs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) reintroduced the CBP Workload Staffing Model Act, to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determine its staffing needs. This bill would require...
Higgins, GOP Colleagues Call for Action on Border Crisis, Affirm States’ Rights to Protect Citizens
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) joined Representative Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and other Republican colleagues in a press conference to address the Biden border crisis and affirm...
Higgins, Freedom Caucus Colleagues Defend Law Enforcement Against Anti-Police Attacks
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) led 11 other members of the House Freedom Caucus on an official letter to President Joe Biden defending law enforcement and countering leftist...
Higgins Slams Biden’s Gun-Control Executive Orders
Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after President Biden announced several executive actions on gun control. "These executive actions are misguided and will only restrict...
Higgins Introduces Second Amendment Protection Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) has introduced H.R. 1691, the Second Amendment Protection Act, which affirms the right to bear arms and strengthens protections for law-abiding gun...
GOP Rep. Higgins: Border Crisis an ‘Unmitigated Disaster,’ ‘Danger to Our Republic’
During a Tuesday interview on FNC's "Fox & Friends First," Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) discussed his trip with Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) to the United States-Mexico border.Higgins outlined how...
Higgins Votes Against Anti-Second Amendment Bills
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446, which impose new restrictions on firearm purchases and infringe upon the...
Higgins Votes Against Democrats’ Partisan Policing Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 1280, Democrats' misguided police reform bill."Democrats' anti-police bill would legislate...
Higgins Slams Biden’s Amnesty Proposal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) issued the following statement after President Biden and Congressional Democrats released a legislative proposal that would provide over 11 million...
Higgins Introduces Pro-Energy, Pro-Law Enforcement Amendments to Budget Reconciliation Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) introduced three amendments today that would prevent COVID relief funds from being used to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords,...
Higgins, RSC Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Safeguard Future Elections
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) along with his Republican Study Committee (RSC) colleagues introduced the Save Democracy Act, which reforms and secures our federal election...