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On the recordNovember 30, 2021
We have a choice to make this week. We have a choice to make whether we are going to fund the United States Government and to fund the executive branch when that executive branch is carrying out often unlawful, unconstitutional, but certainly, unhelpful and foolish mandates that are crushing small businesses and causing people to lose their jobs, forcing our members of the military to lose their ability to serve, forcing members of the Border Patrol, DEA, and hospitals across this country to lose workers because of these mandates. Why would anybody in this Chamber vote to fund a government that is going to mandate that people have to lose their jobs through these unlawful orders? And the second thing we have got to decide is whether we are going to vote for a National Defense Authorization Act that, for the first time in history, will add women, 18-year-old girls, to the draft, without so much as a debate in this Chamber. I think we have an easy call, but we have got to make that call this week and decide what we are going to do. ____________________
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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