Chip Roy: “I appreciate my friend from Virginia (Mr. Griffith) for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, what we are doing on the…”

“I appreciate my friend from Virginia (Mr. Griffith) for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, what we are doing on the floor today is right and proper under our rules. It is to say that we should have a full-throated debate on something that would fundamentally change the people's House, nothing more, nothing less. We should do that. This is something that has been debatable. It was debated by the Founders. It was debated by them and rejected. It was debated and rejected in the Articles of Confederation. It was debated and rejected in the Constitution. We are now staring at the result of having set aside tradition and precedent by embracing proxy voting during COVID. It is trying to be expanded beyond that. We should not do that. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, responding to the gentleman who just spoke, just because the gentleman yells doesn't make his vote count more. It certainly doesn't make him right. Mr. Speaker, Donald Trump literally works from a golf course, and my friends on the other side of the aisle don't say anything about it. Yet, God forbid a pregnant mother be able to have her baby in the safety of her home and in her community and she votes by proxy. Somehow, the Republic will fall? Give me a break. What the hell is wrong with the majority? This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.…”