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On the recordJune 14, 2023
If my Democratic colleagues support these executive orders so much, if they believe that these are the best things since sliced bread, that we need to have all of these orders that are turning our entire society upside down, that are redefining traditional roles in society that we understand the difference between men and women; if they are so excited about those policies, then why are they worried about voting on them? What is the problem? Why must they just be executed by a faceless bureaucrat at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue or in the alphabet soup of agencies in this town? Why shouldn't this body, the people's House, and the Senate, speak? That is all we are talking about in the REINS Act and these amendments. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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