Chip Roy: “I appreciate the gentlewoman. Let me just say, I think this body would do a wonder for the American people if we could…”

“I appreciate the gentlewoman. Let me just say, I think this body would do a wonder for the American people if we could engage in this for hours, not seconds. And I think the gentlewoman agrees that we should have this kind of debate back and forth so the American people can see so we can flush out our differences, because there are things we agree on, and there are things we disagree on. What I would respond to the gentlewoman about the point of what occurred, poring over it as a staffer as I did, was that the Members, including the chairman of the Judiciary Committee then, Mr. Sensenbrenner, as well as on the Senate side--and I won't speak for the House, because I was on the Senate side--but I was in the room with Chairman Specter, I was in the room with all of those that were in 2006 going through all this, and I was in the room with about 15 Republicans who were sitting over there, each of whom said that it was unconstitutional, we can't really do this, but we dare not go down this political road. Okay, well, that is what that is. Fast-forward, and for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bemoan ``activist Courts,'' well, welcome to the club. Welcome to the party of being concerned about activist Courts.…”