Chip Roy: “I appreciate my colleague's remarks about the Texas Rangers. They are such an important organization in the world of law…”

“I appreciate my colleague's remarks about the Texas Rangers. They are such an important organization in the world of law enforcement. I say that as someone who served in the Office of the Attorney General of Texas as the first assistant attorney general where I had a large number of law enforcement, including former Texas Rangers, working for me. I worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office in law enforcement. My grandfather was the chief of police in a small Texas town, Sweetwater, Texas, in the 1940s. My great-great-grandfather was a Texas Ranger. As my colleague from Texas just discussed with respect to the history, in 1821, Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas, brought 300 families to settle land in modern-day Texas. There was no regular Army. Austin assembled a fighting force to provide protection from Comanches and eventually Mexican raiders, giving rise to the Texas Rangers. Texans did what sovereign States have done throughout history, stepping up and protecting our communities. We stood up for the rule of law when there was none. Much of the action seen by the early Rangers involved bloody conflicts with Comanche Tribes and gangs of bandits who threatened the safety of Texans. In years following, the Rangers proved indispensable during major events such as the Mexican-American War; the pursuit of the criminals, Bonnie and Clyde in 1934; and Hurricane Harvey rescue and recoveries recently in 2017 and now currently today.…”