Chip Roy: “I am honored to follow my friend from Virginia (Mr. Cline). Mr. Speaker, last night when we heard the President of the…”

“I am honored to follow my friend from Virginia (Mr. Cline). Mr. Speaker, last night when we heard the President of the United States address this Nation and this body in this Chamber as well as our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol in the Senate, you would think there was some sort of magic moment that the virus has suddenly left the Earth and now all of a sudden we are free here on the floor of the House of Representatives to be without masks. It was just coincidentally timed--just coincidentally timed--when the State of the Union is upon us. A number of States have lifted their mandates--all suddenly coincidentally timed--around the State of the Union. And I was interested in watching the Speaker of the House suddenly saying: Well, it is a new moment in COVID. I listened to my colleagues from Texas just a moment ago on the other side of the aisle talking about how we have had this great victory through the action of the genius of our Federal Government to free us from the perils of this virus. Mr. Speaker, tell that to the children who have been sitting in the corners of classrooms wearing masks. Tell that to the members of our military and the members of our Border Patrol who are the so-called heroes.…”