Chip Roy

There is some sort of form, and you sign the form. In that language, you say, ``due to the COVID emergency,'' or something to that effect. I don't want to misrepresent the exact legal language. ``Due to the COVID emergency, I cannot be…

Correct, and he understands what the swamp is all about. The gentleman brought up the impact--I think that this is one of most important things we can say here in closing. The gentleman brought up the impact in Lynchburg, Virginia. People…

So we filed a discharge petition of that bill. Now, I want a little history here for 1 minute. We introduced that discharge petition, and we got our normal group of Members who like to fight for freedom. We had 30 or 40 of us get on that…

Is the gentleman aware of this? Did we take a trip together to Del Rio, Texas, a month ago?

$1.6 trillion, $1 billion of plussed-up spending, $14 billion for Ukraine, without a single debate here on the floor of the House about how much money we should spend and what we should get out of it. No change to the mandate of vaccines…

Well, like any good Republican Conference, we did nothing. We did nothing. We let the moments of leverage just pass right on by and did nothing. Yet, I sat here on the floor, while I had some of my Republican leadership colleagues saying…

I appreciate my fellow border Stater being down here. You hold those Mounties back up there, okay? Keep them at bay.

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the previous question. The gentleman from Maryland, my friend, raised some issues about saying that we are wasting time when we have stunts, he called…

I would only add that I have seen some reports that there are a number of Democrats in the Senate joining with Republicans in the Senate to try to do something about this. I hope that is true. But my little warning to that is, I keep…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I completely agree that we should be trying to help small businesses who have gotten absolutely railroaded and run over by the power of government, which amounts to, essentially, a taking. They have…

I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), and I thank all colleagues from the House Freedom Caucus for joining me here on the floor. I thank my friend from Virginia, who joined me down in Del Rio, Texas, just a month ago, where…

So to that point, would it surprise the gentleman that under the administration we have turned away 1.7 million people under Title 42?

The got-aways. The more than half a million known got- aways--known--known got-aways--last year. So if we have got people we are catching on the terrorist watch list, if we have got criminals convicted of sex crimes, convicted of murder…

Yeah, including the time under the Trump administration. So 1.7 million times during the pandemic all the people that were turned back would likely have been let in and released into the United States under this administration. Some of…

Something along the lines of a million people that would have been released into the United States last year. Does the gentleman agree?

Another point. Of the people that have come into the United States and are being encountered, these are all not just nice people looking for a job, are they?

One hundred sixty different countries. Roughly, 10,763 criminal noncitizens and at least 3,662 have been arrested thus far in fiscal year 2022. The combined timeframes include roughly 85 convictions of manslaughter or homicide, 604 sexual…

Everyone who has been turn away, it has almost entirely been done under Title 42.

Now, for the listeners at home, Title 42 is a health code provision allowing our officials in government to turn people away if we have a communicable disease environment, like we do during the COVID pandemic. Now, we can do it for any…

They do not. And I want to make sure for every American out there to understand the truth. If you are disgusted about what is happening at our border, if you are concerned about what is actually happening to our communities, there is a way…

We have zero Democrats--not one Democrat--on that discharge petition. Now, I want everybody to think about that. The Democrats in this body apparently are so beholden to the radical idea of wide-open borders and not implementing Title 42…

So while that is in place, we have a discharge petition where we can bring to the floor and vote to force enforcement of Title 42 in this country, and not one of our Democratic colleagues will join us in that.

It sure would. I think there are somewhere around 50 Democratic Members from border States if you count New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas. So where are my Democratic colleagues in border States? I think they ought to be asked. I…

It is a way to wrestle control of the people's House away from a handful of self-anointed individuals who are wrecking this country in the name of so-called democracy. Does my friend from Virginia agree?

Do you think that there is anything compassionate--when my colleagues on the other side of aisle like to talk about their compassion for migrants who are seeking to come to this country, do my friends think there is anything at all…