Chip Roy: “I understand the collegiality of the body and wanting to engage. I am happy to engage. We just never get a chance to…”

“I understand the collegiality of the body and wanting to engage. I am happy to engage. We just never get a chance to engage. We are down here, basically, in a fake debate. That is what we all know. I mean, the truth is it is not like we have a body, a Chamber filled here with human beings debating this $1.7 trillion while we are $32 trillion in debt. I would be happy to. Why don't we actually roll up our sleeves around these tables and do the work? But we don't do that. We are literally down here, and we are going to do--what?--30 minutes a side, if we even do that, and then we are going to vote. We are going to vote on a rule that packages together, as I said, deeming as passed a House bill on Federal agency reporting goals with a House amendment to a previously passed Senate amendment to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus, combined with a CR for an extension for a week, in a lame-duck Congress. That is the truth. The American people pull their hair out. They go, gosh, what on Earth is happening in Washington? Well, I will tell them what is happening in Washington. This, this is what is happening in Washington. We know what this is about. This is jamming through a bill at the eleventh hour to get the political priorities of the current Democratic majority, and a handful of Senate Republicans are happy to do it so they can get pork. The House and the Senate have requested a total of $16 billion for 7,500 earmarks.…”