Chip Roy

the evidence suggests it may actually reduce employment opportunities.

'Delaying information about job applicants' criminal histories lead employers to statistically discriminate against groups that are more likely to have a recent conviction.'

'Current evidence suggests that Ban the Box may not increase employment for people of criminal records and might even reduce it.'

If all we do is block that door, they will come through the next most vulnerable place.

the purpose of government is to protect the inalienable rights and to protect our liberty, that that is the reason our government exists?

I don't see or hear any plan whatsoever on what to do about that particular problem.

we had an overwhelmingly regulated health care market from UMRA, HIPAA and EMTALA

I thank my friend from Arizona for his leadership on this matter, and I appreciate his leadership very much on H. Res. 149, a resolution recognizing the national debt as a threat to our national security. In February 2000, the total…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding time, and I thank him for his leadership on this important issue. We are here because we are discussing the importance of border security for the United States of America, a question…

We are a republic for a reason. We have a structure of government for a reason.

One thing I will say about this topic, Mr. Carter, is that it is one of the real opportunities for bipartisan policy in this Congress.

We would undermine the very structure and the core of this government further if we pursue this path down H.R. 1.

I thank my friend from North Carolina for yielding. Mr. Speaker, do you know what is hard to respond to? It is hard to respond to my constituents at home who are witnessing the theater of the absurd. It is hard to respond to Laurie Vargas…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I rise today on the eve of the March for Life as a cancer survivor, as someone who appreciates every day that we are given from the good Lord above as a gift. I want to recount a story from a couple of…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding. Madam Speaker, as a proud Texan, I am proud to give my first remarks on the floor of the United States House of Representatives today on the important issue of border security, critical…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 23. ____________________

The government, the insurance companies, and the employer do. So everyone orients and caters to them, not to the patient.

Health care is a right, and what I mean by that is that it is the right of individuals in this country to choose the health care that they want.

There is an enormous range of choices that can be opened up to patients to make for themselves.

This is one of the least rational provisions of the ACA.

The more patients are in control of their own health care dollars, those prices will come down massively.

to say that we could reduce our civilian workforce would dramatically affect our ability to perform the mission.