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Chip Roy is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 21st congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Roy has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, government accountability, and border security during his time in office. He has been an outspoken advocate for conservative policies and has often emphasized the need for the government to operate more efficiently and transparently.
Right. The idiots in this Chamber voted to cause that to happen and back up what the regulators down the street are forcing on the average American. Here is what I don't get, right? All my colleagues here, if I forced my colleagues, one by…
I think he would say if you have got a literal army of people coming across the river, I suppose. I think they would probably fight us on that.
And I am glad the gentleman brings this issue up because I would note that, today, while I was sitting in the House Judiciary Committee with the gentleman from California (Mr. Kiley)--who just came in to join us, who is going to take the…
One last point. Has my friend from Pennsylvania heard the same issues? I won't say who, but I have already heard very important Members of this body, in terms of their rank and committee, already talking about the fact that, no matter what…
I am not sure that they have stipulated the former, but they certainly want to try to stop us from identifying and recognizing the latter. The reality is that the people of Texas are fed up and they are asking their leaders to do the job…
Would the gentleman agree that the fundamental obstacle to achieving what the gentleman just outlined is that it has a lot of complexities in it?
For everybody watching at home, Social Security is predominantly on autopilot, mandatory accounts.
Also not on there are significant other mandatory things. For example, we have veteran spending. We just voted on MILCON-VA. We have veteran spending based on burn pits and stuff that is about a $500 million or $600 million mandatory…
We will go through committees, figure out the work. It is tough work. We will do it. Would the gentleman agree the primary obstacle to that is, and I am going to use this term broadly, the buildup--the gentleman referenced K Street and the…
You don't want to default. Now, you put defense over here as discretionary, although there are some issues in there in terms of some social spending. Call that discretionary. You have got Medicare, which is effectively mandatory. What you…
I assume the gentleman would agree with me--and I am going to switch topics, but it is a transition that makes it more meaningful--that when the boys walked into the wall of bullets that they walked into at Normandy in 1944 that they…
In all seriousness, we were able to push this out. We were able to do clips. It is important that we continue to have this conversation. The gentleman is correct, in very broad terms and very specific terms, about the extent to which we…
I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, before I start, I will join in a bipartisan moment of agreement with my friend from Massachusetts about Kelly Dixon. I too wish her well. I wish her all the best in her next…
I thank my friend from Texas, the chairman, for yielding, and I thank the ranking member and his staff and the entire staff of the Foreign Affairs Committee for their diligent work on this, for working all last week, for working through…
My main point for the average user is that the revenues we bring in from general taxes, corporate taxes, FICA taxes, the chart that the gentleman was just showing, does not cover even all of what the gentleman just put forward, much less…
I don't want to take up the gentleman's time, although I have time on the back end, and we are happy to bleed them together, but I would just add to the gentleman's point. We have to address the drivers that the gentleman comes down and…
The gentleman is correct. I think that is one of the things I want to stress. I came down here not to talk about spending. However, on the heels of our friend from Arizona, I want to make the point and then pivot to what I think is…
Lakin Riley would be here today, if we had not released a killer onto the United States of America.
What we have is a continued effort by the Federal Government to fail to secure the border of the United States.
The Department of Justice is suing the State of Texas in court, taking valuable resources to go against the people of Texas.
You are in court because you are accusing to try to stop Texas from enforcing the laws that the Federal Government is refusing to enforce.
My question for you with respect to the Department is do you believe that Texas has a right to defend itself...
The decision not to prosecute President Biden for effectively the same crime for which DOJ is prosecuting President Trump is because DOJ has determined the President is not mentally fit to defend himself.
I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing--one!--that I can go campaign on and say we did.
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