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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.
While I thank my friend and colleague and I appreciate the fact that through his work and the work of Republicans, we did reduce it by $1.5 billion, but there remains another $2 billion of funding. I say to my colleagues on both sides of…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 25, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced to $0)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…
I thank my friend from Florida for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this legislation, strongly in support of this legislation. This is legislation that will make sure our troops are paid. It will make sure that our military can…
I thank my friend from Florida for all of his work on this legislation and the underlying bill. I offer an amendment that would prohibit any of the funding made available in the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs…
My Democratic colleagues claim they are saving the world by pursuing renewable energy. They always neglect to mention the important part. The Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, a key component of the EV batteries they…
I missed an amendment vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 475. Amendment No. 45 Offered by Mr. Steube The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 45…
The termination of this program resulted in a decrease by 64 percent for illegal alien apprehensions between ports of entries or found inadmissible at ports of entry. Border encounters with Central American families--the main driver of the…
I note that recently China's military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island's Defense Ministry called a recent new high. Forty of these planes crossed the symbolic median line between mainland China and…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds…
I appreciate my friend from Texas, and I will certainly review the amendment. I am not going to withdraw it. I want to review the amendment and see if the reference is somehow incorrect, but the intent of the amendment--and it is now, I am…
I appreciate the brevity of my colleague, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 79 Offered by…
The amendment that we have in front of us prohibits funding from the act to be used to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols. This is one of the most important things that we need to address. H.R. 2, which this body, led by…
The amendment before us is pretty simple. It prohibits funding from this Act to carry out the Department of Homeland Security's memo titled ``Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas.'' The Biden administration issued…
I will be brief in the interest of moving things along. The only thing I would note is, with respect to the difference, for example, of talking about Christmas trees and celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and putting…
The amendment that I am offering here would prohibit funds from being available under this act for the Marine Corps University Krulak Center's Reynolds Scholars program. Now, I was unaware of this, relatively blissfully, I don't know, a…
I have great respect for my colleague on the other side of the aisle from Texas. On this matter we disagree. The Secretary of Homeland Security has entirely abdicated his responsibility to follow the laws of the United States. He has done…
The amendment before us would prohibit any of the funds in the Defense appropriations bill from being used to carry out President Biden's executive orders on climate change. Our military should be, as I have stated in these other…
The amendment I put forward prohibits funding in this act to President Biden's executive orders that put needless limits on immigration enforcement, scale back sound asylum policies, and establish its own set of immigration directives that…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
I agree with the gentlewoman that words hurt. The question is, how those words are deployed and what they do for the mission of our United States military. When I see taxpayer dollars going to fund a syllabus which was not something in…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I have nothing more to say except that I don't think it is intentional sometimes some of the things that are happening on the floor today, but one of the things that we chant as…
The United States military is one of the few institutions in America where the skills of the men or women on either side of you could mean the difference between life and death. At the end of the day, it embodies I think Dr. King's notion…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
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