Chip Roy

The closure of schools is not justified by what we know about COVID-19. The disease does not affect children.

I have great confidence in the R&D infrastructure of the United States, both in terms of the university academic sector, as well as private pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to develop effective treatments and vaccines eventually.

41 percent of Black-owned businesses have closed over the last three months as a result of the virus...

We're kind of going the opposite way. We're running up the credit card and making sure the next generation is broke.

that program was clearly designed very poorly, and it is my fervent hope that we listen to those proprietors and employers as we try to get the economy going again.

In medicine, we have a rule: First, do no harm. Keeping the economy closed continues to harm millions of Americans.

We cannot count on a vaccine being developed in the near term. We can certainly hope for the best...

That's correct, and all those details are in our written testimony.

It's more than roughly accurate. It's based on the reporting of the data that we have. It's very accurate.

The order of magnitude is greater.

The leadership of China is taking China from a friend of America to an adversary of America, and we need to hold the CCP accountable.

One of the parts of this whole discussion that, at least in my opinion, we're not talking enough about is the Communist Party of China.

I happen to be of the belief that it is tragically bad that we as a society have clamped down on our economy...

The average small business has less than a month of cash on hand.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed…

One thing I want to point out here is that the ranking member and the chair have gone through the provisions in the bill. This is an important vote because we have to do this to help small businesses, but it is an important vote because I…

I thank the chairwoman and the ranking member for their leadership. I really want to give a strong statement of support and thanks to my colleague, Dean Phillips, for the way in which our offices have worked together and in which he and I…

I was advised that we could do nothing in this body to address the constitutional infirmity of literally transferring our constitutionally vested authority to represent our constituents to another. Therefore, I was told, and I believe that…

This body should continue to meet. That letter from James Madison, the father of the Constitution, to the father of our country, George Washington, expressly lays out what he is talking about to try to protect our duty to meet as a body…

I appreciate the opportunity here to visit about what we are dealing with today with respect to proxy voting with respect to the previous question. And I notice that the gentleman from Massachusetts--and, first of all, and our prayers go…

I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding. I just ask my colleagues here: What are we doing? We have 40 million Americans out of work. We have serious problems we have got to address, and we are going to pass a bill tonight that is a…

I have one question: Where has Congress been? Forty-three percent of American households have had a significant or total pay cut; 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment; schools are shut down, placing burdens on families; and…

The combination of the unemployment insurance program where we are paying people more to not work than to work is fundamentally undermining the ability of businesses to get the benefit of a forgivable loan.

Twenty-six million unemployed Americans; 43 percent of American families have had a reduction in their paycheck or an elimination of their paycheck. I would posit that what we are doing is not working.

We have got to change our approach. We have got to get our businesses back up and running. We can't fund our economy from Washington.