Chip Roy: “I appreciate what the gentleman just said. I would say, for our constituents back home, I feel them. I feel the…”

“I appreciate what the gentleman just said. I would say, for our constituents back home, I feel them. I feel the frustration of being in a Chamber where I can offer no amendment, where I have no power to have any input on what bill we are going to be debating on the floor. Literally, for 6-and-a-half years, no amendment has been offered on the floor of this body in open debate, meaning it wasn't precooked up in the Committee on Rules. Think about that, in the people's House. That should infuriate both sides of the aisle. That is no way for the people's House to operate. It is being operated by dictate. That is a bipartisan statement, I want to say, over time. I think, for the American people, they want to see us do something. I think we can. To the fine folks in Pennsylvania that you ran into who said, ``What can we do? We can't do anything about it,'' do you know what? We can. One, we can freeze spending to stop the complete disregard for the economic well-being of this country and the driving up of inflation by spending money we don't have. We can do that. {time} 1945 We can agree as a body that we have to make tough decisions like families and businesses do. Freeze spending. Let's just stop the bleeding. We can take a second step, and we can actually demand that when we have debates about the spending of taxpayer money and the borrowing and printing of money that we actually deal with these crises in real terms.…”