Chip Roy: “I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding. I can't help but be amused when the gentleman from Massachusetts…”

“I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding. I can't help but be amused when the gentleman from Massachusetts says that we refused to come to the table. As if the gentlewoman who will soon be the chair of the Appropriations Committee, Ms. Granger, my colleague from Texas, doesn't want to sit at the table with colleagues on either side of the aisle to come to consensus about how to spend taxpayer dollars; or better stated, how to borrow money we don't have, as if that is actually true. What table is the gentleman referring to? At what table does he want us to come sit down and negotiate? It is not this table. I don't have the power to offer an amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives, despite being elected by 750,000 Texans. I don't have the ability or the right to be able to stand up for them and have a debate on the floor of this Chamber. Everything the American people are watching right now is a complete sham. It is a fraud, a fraud being perpetrated on the American people right before their eyes, right as we head into Christmas, sitting here on the 23rd of December when--240-what--246 years ago those boys crossed the Delaware and we were dealing with Valley Forge, or the boys in 1944 sitting in foxholes in Bastogne over Christmas.…”