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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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Apr 7, 2022

I would just shut down the port of entry. I would look at the rest of America and my colleagues around this Chamber and say, Do you like your cheap goods from Mexico right now when we have got high inflation and we want to go attack China…

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Apr 7, 2022

I will not mention that these two guys happen to be known publicly. They are a couple of twins who are good buddies of mine and their birthday is today. But I sit here, and I say on April 7, it was a year ago almost to the day--I would…

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Apr 7, 2022

Suddenly, that list grew to 125. Then what? We went back on Tucker. We went back: Hey, here is what the list number is. Suddenly, that number grew to about 160. We got it up to 195, and then it stalled. Then 2 weeks ago, when all of the…

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Apr 6, 2022

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…

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Apr 6, 2022

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…

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Apr 6, 2022

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…

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Apr 6, 2022

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…

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Apr 6, 2022

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

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Mar 31, 2022

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.

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Mar 31, 2022

Before I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, I just want to pick up on something that the gentleman from Virginia said and see if he would agree. If Title 42 goes away, our country is completely open to anyone who wants to come…

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Mar 31, 2022

I thank my colleagues for coming down here and talking about the importance of farming in the United States. One of the things we are dealing with, obviously, and talked about, is some fertilizer shortages. I know that firsthand, seeing…

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Mar 31, 2022

This hour. This moment. But where is President Biden? Where is Secretary Mayorkas? Other than purposely ignoring the laws of the United States to endanger the American people and the migrants who seek to come here, where are they? And why…

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