Chip Roy: “I would just add a couple of responses to my friend, the gentleman from Virginia. Both of us are graduates of the…”

“I would just add a couple of responses to my friend, the gentleman from Virginia. Both of us are graduates of the University of Virginia. I am an extraordinarily proud graduate of Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson, frankly, helped frame the public diffusion of knowledge, as the gentleman knows, in trying to set up a structure for public schools in order to have broader access for more Americans and give them the ability and the benefits of public education. I was public school educated K through law school, as was my wife, raised by a single mom. We went to Texas A&M University and the University of Texas School of Law, where we met. I am a big proponent of the public education system. I am a bigger proponent of empowering parents. I am a bigger proponent of being able to have checks and balances within the education system and allowing parents the ability to take care of their kids. That is what this is about. When we talk about homeschooling, the purpose here is, you have got parents who are left on the outside looking in while the public school system has abandoned them during the pandemic, and they had to go do something about it. They are abandoning them now by not providing them the proficiency of education as I just talked about in Baltimore and Chicago and in schools across the country. To say that we should restrict parents from being able to use those dollars in private schools.…”