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Chip Roy

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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.

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Mar 5, 2026

Well, you do a great job of it. Keep pounding on the math. We have made slight progress with flat discretionary spending for 2 or 3 years and a little bit of work last year in the big, beautiful bill, but we barely dented the problem. Mr…

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Mar 5, 2026

We should all be united in having a sharia-free America. It is inconsistent with our values.

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Mar 5, 2026

Is the gentleman familiar with areas in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, even nearby his own district in places like Richardson, in places like Arlington, and a little farther away in other areas, that some of our Texas women in…

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Mar 5, 2026

I thank my friend who has very well laid out the extraordinary problem we have as a country if we allow sharia law to take root. People say, well, yeah, just dismiss it. It is not a big deal. This is just a problem in Europe. You hear that…

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Feb 4, 2026

I am here right now because the American people are demanding that we, the elected leaders in Washington--that we in the people's House--that we secure the elections of the United States. They are tired of wondering whether their votes…

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Feb 4, 2026

We sit here in this Chamber under the In God We Trust motto. We sit here in front of this flag. We think about all of the people who came before us who sacrificed for this country. This is the most basic of things that we can do to restore…

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Feb 4, 2026

Last year, we had five Democrats join with us and, this year, four Democrats joined with us. I think there will be pressure for a number of Democrats to join with us here and in the Senate.

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Jan 14, 2026

We created this court. We can dissolve this court. We can determine the funding for this court. The fact of the matter is that we have a situation right now where judges abuse their power, plain and simple. The D.C. Circuit Court and the…

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Dec 27, 2025

We’ve done some good stuff, but we need to be on offense and do more

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Dec 18, 2025

Of course, they maintain discretion. Agencies will have full discretion if we adopt this language, the discretion to consider the effects over which that agency or the cooperating Federal agencies have jurisdiction. That is it. What we are…

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Dec 12, 2025

--which is to stop subsidizing insurance companies, stop enriching insurance bureaucrats, and empower the American people?

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Dec 12, 2025

I wish him safe travel back to Missouri, and hopefully, next week, we can get busy saving the American people from a broken healthcare system.

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Dec 12, 2025

Right. If you have an F-250 pickup, right, and you have a crappy, little engine in there that doesn't work, but you add four-wheel drive and leather seats, and you do all this stuff to make it a nice truck, but it has a lawnmower engine in…

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Dec 12, 2025

The last point, to that point, when our Republican colleagues, in particular, and other colleagues talk about all these things--we need transparency, we need association health plans--I support that. I support transparency, right? We need…

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Dec 12, 2025

What will be transformative is giving individuals and patients the power to deploy the dollars in a tax-advantaged way, in a marketplace where they can go get the options that are best for them.

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Dec 12, 2025

It is not just a holiday for white lights and garland and making merry. It is a holiday that serves as the center of who we are as a people. As the Speaker knows, sitting there in the Speaker's chair under 'In God We Trust,' it is that…

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Dec 12, 2025

For the average viewer out there who can't necessarily follow all this, if we distill this down simply, no matter what you call it, no matter how you define it, what we are simply proposing is that individual families, individuals, be able…

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Dec 1, 2025

I would just add, in agreement with her, that, as I said before, this simply says that the Attorney General should provide to us, the people's House and this Congress, a list of all Federal crimes in statute and regulation, along with…

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Nov 12, 2025

It is beside my comprehension that this got put in the bill, and it is why people have such a low opinion of this town.

nytimes.com
Nov 5, 2025

This bill isn't being attacked because it'll exclude citizens from voting — it won't.

salon.com
Nov 5, 2025

Absurd armchair speculation being spun up by media outlets who care more about clicks than reality.

salon.com
Oct 7, 2025

If Republicans govern by poll and fail to grab this moment, they will own it.

nypost.com
Sep 10, 2025

We should be able to speak freely and speak with passion and regard about what we believe, without it coming to that.

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Aug 28, 2025

The White House had rightly identified the need to 'clean up' corporate dependence on government and 'restore competition.'

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Aug 28, 2025

We’ve got a massive amount of ability to produce wealth and capital in this country by virtue of free enterprise.

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