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Chip Roy: So we filed a discharge petition of that bill. Now, I want a little history here for 1 minute. We introduced that…

On the recordApril 7, 2022
So we filed a discharge petition of that bill. Now, I want a little history here for 1 minute. We introduced that discharge petition, and we got our normal group of Members who like to fight for freedom. We had 30 or 40 of us get on that discharge right away. And then it was a slog. It was a slog for the better part of a year. We tried in the summer, we got it to 75. We went on Tucker Carlson. We said: Hey, here are the people who have signed it, and here are the ones who haven't.
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas
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Apr 7, 2022

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