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Chip Roy: “The Constitution requires one-fifth, right, in order to be able to have the numbers there to force the roll call vote.”

On the recordMarch 16, 2022
The Constitution requires one-fifth, right, in order to be able to have the numbers there to force the roll call vote.
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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Roy discusses constitutional requirements for voting procedures in Congress.

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