An Incredibly Upsetting List of All the New Republican Congress Members

Earlier this week, the new members of Congress were sworn in by their dungeon master, Paul Ryan. That means we have 27 fresh-faced Republicans in office who are ready to lavishly enjoy their party's control of all three branches of government and ruin our lives. Meet the right-wing's freshman class:

Rep. Andy Biggs (Arizona 5th District)

Friends of Andy Biggs would call him an "impeccable conservative," but people who aren't into deficit hawks who want to enforce even more

austerity

 measures on working people might choose different words. Biggs ran to represent Arizona's 5th district in Congress on a

platform

 of "defeating ISIS," balancing the federal budget, harsher criminalization of immigrants, and taking away people's healthcare. He

won

 by 27 votes.

Before that, however, Biggs rose humble beginnings as a lawyer and the

winner

 of a $10 million sweepstakes to become the leader of the Arizona State Senate, where he was known for using

petty tactics

 against members he didn't like. A fellow Senate member, Kelly Townsend, has said that Biggs retaliated against her after she spoke up about the need for police reform. Townsend said that Biggs blocked most of the bills she introduced and that it got so bad she voted for a bill that she was against—a measure limiting lifetime welfare eligibility in Arizona to one year, making it the harshest limit in the US—just to appease Biggs, who wanted the bill to pass.

When he wasn't said to have been bullying members of the Arizona Senate, Biggs was voting in

favor

 of legislation that would penalize sanctuary cities for immigrants and suing to block Medicaid expansion in the state in defiance of the Affordable Care Act. He also voted for harsh abortion

restrictions

 in the state—which included a provision that would have mandated doctors to tell women they could "reverse" a medical abortion using an unproven procedure. And, along with a few dozen other fools, he signed a

letter

 asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate Planned Parenthood following the release of two heavily edited videos put out by anti-abortion activists. The videos purported to show Planned Parenthood representatives discussing the sale of fetal tissue and have been debunked.

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