Chip Roy: “I would note that last week, for the first time in 7 years, we were able to offer amendments on the floor of this body…”

“I would note that last week, for the first time in 7 years, we were able to offer amendments on the floor of this body with a modified open rule, and for the first time in 10 years, we were able to amend a bill other than an appropriations measure. I believe the gentleman doth protest too much. The bills we are talking about here are one page each, and one is six pages. We have had these bills out there for 72 hours. They have been publicly available. When the gentleman asks why we are doing this so quickly, I will tell you why. Because I am not going to look at another nurse, another doctor, another healthcare practitioner in my district who is begging to go do his or her job, to go care for the American people that they want to take care of, and have to look at them and say: You can't do it because the Federal Government is telling you that you can't, without any basis in science, without any basis rooted in any defense whatsoever. Keep this in mind: The OSHA mandate put forward by this President: Struck down by SCOTUS. The Federal employee mandate: Enjoined by the Fifth Circuit. Federal contractor mandate: Enjoined by Federal courts. Head Start mandate: Enjoined by Federal courts. The CMS mandate remaining in effect is making it impossible for some of the men and women who want to serve their constituents and take care of them to be able to do so.…”