Chip Roy: “I thank my friend from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) for yielding. I am delighted to be down here on the floor of the House of…”

“I thank my friend from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) for yielding. I am delighted to be down here on the floor of the House of Representatives in a Republican majority, and I am delighted to be talking about a rules package crafted by that Republican majority and that reflects what I think is a fundamental transformation of this House to ensure that the people can be represented by their Representatives. That is the point. There is a reason that I have had great conversations with some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle about why having 72 hours to read a bill, or why having a bill that isn't littered with Christmas tree additional subjects rather than single subjects, as my friend from Virginia (Mr. Griffith) articulated so well, or whether having germane amendments and being able to open up the floor by virtue of changing the rules or restoring the Holman rule so we can have an impact on agencies that are out of control and not responding to the people's House, there is a reason why those rules are so fundamentally important: to restore this body and to restore the people's House. That is why we are here. Everybody keeps running around in classic swamp speak talking about secret deals, a secret addendum. What we are talking about is how people come to an agreement in this town to ensure that we are going to carry out what we have said we are going to do. The rules package is on full display.…”