Chip Roy
Representative for Texas · Republican · United States
“Then even the most important and the smartest people in the world tell our people: You are not going to have a job in 10 years because robots and AI are going to take your jobs away. Why do you think the American people are in revolt to data centers popping up at every corner in America?”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Now is the time not for fist bumping about some bills that we passed or whatever we did over a year ago in the big, beautiful bill. Go out and campaign to the American people about where we want to take this country, build on what we have done, and tell them where we want to go. I want to live in a free country.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We ought to be here, and we ought to be delivering for the people of the United States. When we do, we are at our best. When we do, we deliver results for the American people.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We did that collectively as a country because we understand that life matters. What strikes me is the phone calls that were made during that time, the phone calls that were made from those airplanes as they were being flown into buildings, as they were being flown into the field in Pennsylvania. What were they saying?”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We haven't addressed birthright citizenship after the United States Supreme Court made up out of whole cloth nonsense that the 14th Amendment says that if you are born here, literally of a mother pregnant who comes here across the Rio Grande River or flies into Miami and has a baby, you are a citizen.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Here we are, and we are having to have political battles in defense of innocent life. Now, 50-odd years removed from Roe, obviously we celebrated the decision by the Court in Dobbs, but abortion continues. Babies continue to lose their lives. They are babies.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
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“That is the calling of the people in this Chamber. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, winding down here with about a minute to go in the empty Chamber that is the House of Representatives, we have this great blessing of being Americans and we have the opportunity to do something with it. I am calling on this body as they go out and campaign, when they come back in November, when they come back in January, stand up for something bigger. Stand up in defense of who we are as a people. Stand up for this country. Stand up for our grandparents and our great- grandparents who fought and bled and died to give it to us. Stand up for your children. Don't just turn a blind eye to what is happening. Make this place affordable and livable and enjoyable. That is what the pursuit of happiness meant. Those unalienable rights that Jefferson wrote about: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“It is a great honor to serve in the people's House. The people's House has to reflect the people. When people question me because they say, Chip, you are a free market guy. You are a free enterprise guy. Why are you talking about AI in the negative? I am not a doomer. I am a cancer survivor. I want AI to solve cancer for everybody alive. I want all of the great things we can have to come out of technology in advancements, but what I don't want are a handful of people in board rooms and Big Tech companies in collusion with government to tell me how I have to live. I don't want those people to tell me I have to have some sort of data center or have to have some sort of way of living that isn't consistent with what I think God gave to us to have dominion and control over.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Those men took the field on both sides of the war in Gettysburg and fought it out, hand to hand, brother against brother, for something bigger, for something better, for something that you could pass down to your children and something that was more than whatever is contained in one of these godforsaken devices. We have the obligation to stand up for something more important as this whole debate of AI, this whole debate of data centers. It is about putting God first. It is about putting family first. It is about putting communities first. It is about restoring what is right and good about this thing that God gave to us to have dominion over. We can choose how to live. We can choose to live the lives that we know will be fulfilling for our families and our communities and our kids and grandkids.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“I don't want a world in which your life depends on the digital transmission of the world. I want a world where you look somebody in the eye, where you have a relationship, where you have a community, where you go to church, where you raise the flag, where you celebrate God and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and you are able to do so because people fought, bled, and died for this country. Start speaking about things that rise above the political rhetoric each year of one party versus the other. Rise up for something that is worth fighting for. That is why those boys sat in those foxholes in Bastogne in the freezing cold in 1944 getting shelled and shot at, why they walked into a wall of bullets at Normandy.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Now is the time not for fist bumping about some bills that we passed or whatever we did over a year ago in the big, beautiful bill. Go out and campaign to the American people about where we want to take this country, build on what we have done, and tell them where we want to go. I want to live in a free country. I want to live in a country that respects our Judeo-Christian principles. I want to live in a country where you don't have to worry about walking down the street. I want my daughter, my wife, my son to be safe walking on our streets. I want a country where I know that we can afford the American Dream and afford a house, food, automobiles, and not one that is so regulated that you can't. I do not want a world in which people are addicted to these godforsaken devices and where our children are addicted to porn and gambling.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“If we are not serious about passing the SAVE America Act, which we passed three times in this body and the Senate refused to pass, how can you stand up and say that you believe that only American citizens should vote in American elections and we should have voter ID federally? If we are not serious about the rise of Sharia law and the massive expansion of mosques and Islamic centers across the United States, how will we maintain a Judeo-Christian nation that built the Western world, that has stood for a beacon of hope for the entirety of the world, built on those principles, those principles of western civilization that are under direct assault right now by people who want to Islamify this country? If we are not serious about those things, we will lose the country.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We haven't addressed birthright citizenship after the United States Supreme Court made up out of whole cloth nonsense that the 14th Amendment says that if you are born here, literally of a mother pregnant who comes here across the Rio Grande River or flies into Miami and has a baby, you are a citizen. Under no circumstances did the 14th Amendment when it was ratified in 1868 mean that that is the law. It is a fiction, and we shouldn't let the United States Supreme Court make up a fiction and then follow it and dismantle our country in the process. The fact of the matter is that decision enables one of the most pervasive illegal immigration magnets that is destroying our country. We should not entertain importing one more person until we secure our border for good. We can't leave it to the next Democratic President to do it.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“You have to go up to leadership and say, you are not getting whatever nonsense you want unless we get the things that the American people said they wanted. That is the truth. We still haven't codified on the floor. We should, and when we come back here to lameduck, we should. We should pass the legislation the American people wanted us to pass. We should protect the people that we said we were going to protect. We should stop the flow of the 1 million people coming in here on green cards every year from all over the world when we still have a glut in this country with housing that is unaffordable and Americans who can't find jobs. We have a massive assault on our culture with 50-something million foreign-born people in the United States, a massive percentage.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“They were going to just gloss over a bill that we have to codify the President's policies of securing the border, stopping the abuse of asylum, stopping the abuse of parole, stopping catch and release, stopping the abuse of unaccompanied children, all of these things that led directly to the deaths of Americans like Laken Riley, like Jocelyn Nungaray, and countless others. We said we were going to do something about it and we didn't. I want every Republican to hear me. We didn't. Some of us stood up there and said we were going to threaten bills. We were going to get this done, and we finally move the bill through the Judiciary Committee because we threatened to stop the floor. By the way, that is the only thing that works around here.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“They don't give a rip about the earnings per share announcements that are coming out of Wall Street. They want their country back. That is what they want. If we want to go out and earn votes between now and November, let's talk to them about taking their country back for them. Let's make sure that we stand up in defense of what they want. I can promise you that as secure as the border is, because of the great work of the Trump administration, we have not codified a darn thing in this Chamber. I had to threaten votes sitting in that aisle right over there. I had to threaten votes in July. Remember the 2 a.m. caucus that everybody gets mad about? That is too damn bad. I am happy to do it because someone has to do it.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Then even the most important and the smartest people in the world tell our people: You are not going to have a job in 10 years because robots and AI are going to take your jobs away. Why do you think the American people are in revolt to data centers popping up at every corner in America? All because the powers that be in this town and in tech oligarch rooms across the country say: You got to do it because of China. How about the people of this body meet the people where they are. {time} 2150 People who want to be able to afford food and housing and cars. People who want to have their communities. They want to be able to maintain the culture of their country. They want their kids and their grandkids to have a job. They want to have the dignity of work. They want to pass that down because they know that is what made this country great.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“It is not necessarily noise pollution or light pollution. If they are out in a farming community, that is part of it. You know what it is? They are sitting in their town, and they are being told: You must do this because of China; you must do this because it is really important. To do what? Some esoteric defense against the arms race against China, so I can have a concrete box outside of my small town in west Texas that is filled with computers that are being operated by people on H-1B visas from India, that are chock-full of all sorts of searches for child pornography and hooking kids on porn or betting on college sports, while we turn college sports upside down and make it basically professional. Then we have TikTok targeting our kids.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“When we say, ``In God We Trust,'' we mean it. When we have Moses looking down on our Chamber, we mean it because we know what this country was founded upon. Yet, when we are importing half the world with people who do not share our values, you wonder why there are imams in Texas today that are literally plotting jihad against Western civilization. Then you wonder why the American people are mad, because the chamber of commerce and big business said they valued cheap labor more than protecting the people of the United States, more than protecting our culture, our heritage, and who we are as people. That is what the American people are mad about. You want to know why they are mad about data centers? I will tell you why they are mad about data centers. It is not electricity or water necessarily. That is part of it.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Maybe it is another protection device in the housing. Maybe we need to import a whole lot of cheap labor that are going to be increasing the demand on the housing so American citizens can't afford a house. Both the supply and demand of housing is causing the increase of prices. When you import half the world demanding housing, you wonder why housing is going up. When you regulate the hell out of homebuilding, you wonder why the price of housing is going up. When you import half the world, you wonder why the entirety of the culture of this country changes in a nanosecond and you suddenly have mosques on every corner in Dallas/Fort Worth and you have people spreading sharia law and you have people that are standing in values that are directly opposed to what we believe in our Judeo-Christian society.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We ought to be here, and we ought to be delivering for the people of the United States. When we do, we are at our best. When we do, we deliver results for the American people. But when we try to politicize or self-serve or climb the ladder of committee chairmanships and leadership, then we walk away from what our core responsibility and our job actually is. Going back to the American people who are still struggling to afford life, I don't care what billionaire I piss off when I tell them that the American people are suffering right now because they can't afford a home or because they can't afford their food or they can't afford a car because we want to have another safety device in the car or another regulation in the car or a surveillance apparatus, like a kill switch, in the car. Then we wonder why the car can't be afforded.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“But the people that are in here trying to fight every single day for the hardworking American feeling screwed by their government and screwed by corporate America, those men and women, those patriots in the House Freedom Caucus and conservatives, are going to bat for you. I can tell you, a lot of people in this town are not. A lot of people in this town want the easy road. A lot of lobbyists and a lot of people who are more interested in their election certificate or climbing the ladder of being a committee chairman or in some leadership post, they don't dare care about what that means for you. That is true on both sides of the aisle, and we need to recognize that. Even as we speak, there are candidates who are in an R plus 20 or R plus 15 district who are already jockeying for committee positions.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“But for the House Freedom Caucus, we would not have made the tax cuts permanent all the way through. But for the House Freedom Caucus, we would not have passed the Laken Riley Act, with the SUE Act in it, giving power to States to sue the Federal Government if they fail to secure the border. But for the House Freedom Caucus, we would not have gotten a 5-year ban on a central bank digital currency, to protect you from surveillance. But for the House Freedom Caucus, we would not have held off on just an automatic renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, carrying out surveillance on the American people. I can go on and on and on.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“I also want to say that I am deeply proud of the United States House Freedom Caucus, conservatives who stood up in defense of the things Americans sent us here to do. But for conservatives and but for the Freedom Caucus, we would not have reduced spending on welfare, Medicaid, and the various programs ripe with fraud that are racking up mountains of debt and causing the American people to have to spend much more in inflation. But for the Freedom Caucus, we would not have saved $1.7 trillion. But for conservatives and the Freedom Caucus, we would not have repealed $500 billion in inflation-causing subsidies put on by green new scam companies trying to make money off of the back of taxpayers. But for the Freedom Caucus, we would not have eliminated a tax on guns that infringe on our Second Amendment right.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“A lot of Americans are asking a simple question: Why are things so expensive? Why is life so hard to afford? Inflation, lower than it was 2 years ago, is still built on the back of the massive inflation after COVID. Today, the Federal Reserve raised rates another .25 percent, raising rates for the first time since 2023. Gasoline prices and diesel prices continue to go up and rise as the war in Iran rages on. Americans have difficulty affording their homes. All of these things are true. Now, why is that the case? Let me pause for a second and say that until a little over 18 months ago, 19 months ago, President Trump comes in, and this Republican Congress got to work. I am deeply proud of the work that we have done to take on the biggest challenges that our Nation faces.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, yet again, I am sitting here in an empty Chamber late at night. People have gone home to campaign. I understand that it is campaign season. But while some are preparing for elections, American families are preparing for another trip to the grocery store, are filling up their cars, are paying their mortgages and their rent, and are looking at their utility bills.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“I will close with this, coming back to what we said 1 week ago in celebrating the courage, for example, of the people who stood up on United Flight 93 and confronted terror, with Todd Beamer's famous words: ``Let's roll.'' Before that what did he do? He asked a woman that he called to recite the Lord's Prayer. Life matters. Who are we, as a people, if we cannot stand up in defense of the most innocent form of life there is: a child in the womb of its mother? That should be our calling, and we should be able to unite as human beings in defense of the defenseless. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend for hosting this hour.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“I am proud of this body, I am proud of my colleagues for doing that and fighting to get that accomplishment in that piece of legislation, one of many great pieces of legislation in that bill. However, I would note, it expired, so now we are 2 months beyond the termination of that provision and its effects. {time} 2120 I would note also that we continue to fund a regime that allows mifepristone to be circulating around our Nation so that pills can be taken by women in their dorm rooms and women in their apartments and endanger their lives while terminating life via pills. That is not victory. I am proud of what we have done, but that is not victory.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“That is all it stands for, and it was bipartisan. It was not that long ago. For 50 years, it reflects that shared value that we shouldn't force people to subsidize something so abhorrent to their belief system. I rise today, thanking Henry Hyde, thanking my colleague, thanking those who have stood for life, but I also want to offer an admonition. I am proud that in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we had a provision in there that stopped funding from going to Planned Parenthood for a year. That is a good thing because funds are fungible, and we all know that money was flowing to Planned Parenthood for the purpose of ultimately exterminating life. We stopped that for a year.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Here we are, and we are having to have political battles in defense of innocent life. Now, 50-odd years removed from Roe, obviously we celebrated the decision by the Court in Dobbs, but abortion continues. Babies continue to lose their lives. They are babies. They are babies that continue to be assaulted in the false name of some sort of freedom. Fifty years ago, Congressman Hyde, Judiciary Committee Chairman Hyde eventually, one of the more eloquent statesmen that this body has ever known, led on this issue, and we have had now for 50 years, as we are celebrating today, the Hyde amendment, which was a commonsense, bipartisan understanding that taxpayers shouldn't be forced to fund something abhorrent to their faith and abhorrent to the values that any sense of humanity and decency would suggest you shouldn't have to fund.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“We did that collectively as a country because we understand that life matters. What strikes me is the phone calls that were made during that time, the phone calls that were made from those airplanes as they were being flown into buildings, as they were being flown into the field in Pennsylvania. What were they saying? They weren't talking about getting abortions. They weren't talking about killing people. They were calling loved ones to say: I love you. They were calling loved ones to say: I will see you soon on the other side. I will be looking down on you from above. They were celebrating life, knowing that they were about to lose life, knowing that they were going to go into eternity for those with strong faith, and they knew that that phone call was something that their loved one needed to hear because it was about life.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, I thank my friend, Mr. Smith. He has devoted so much of his time and his career before Congress and since in defense of life. I am not sure what greater cause we can have than to stand up for life as Members of this great deliberative body, the people's House here in the United States House of Representatives. As we all know, and as the gentleman referred to, in the Declaration, it affirms that all people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Obviously, the pursuit of happiness is one of those, but so are life and liberty. These things are at the core of who we are as people, as Americans. Last Friday, we were commemorating the courage of those who stood strong in the face of terrorism, those who ran into the buildings, but we are also mourning still 25 years later the loss of life.”
House of Representatives16 September 2026Source ↗
“Speaker, I thank Chairman Steil and my friends who I worked with on this.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“I think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle should support it. I don't think they are supporting it for a lot of political reasons. I am not going to debate that here because right now we are talking about this bill addressing stock trading. I will say one thing that I think merits being said: I think we should be having a straight up-or-down vote on this stock trading bill. That is what I think. I think my friends who worked in good faith to do that deserve that on both sides of the aisle. I am going to end up voting for this because I support both measures. I am not done this year demanding that we have a straight up-or-down vote on stock trading. You can't, whether you are on this or that side of the aisle, hide behind the SAVE America Act for your opposition to what we need to do to change the culture of this institution. Mr.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“I think this is a giant step forward. I wish my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and my colleagues on this side of the aisle would recognize that and praise it. If we did that, it would be night and day in this body if people were not allowed to acquire Microsoft while you are voting on technology; acquire Lockheed when you are voting on Defense; acquire pharma or Big Insurance when you are voting on healthcare policies when you are supposed to be focusing on the American people and not focusing on your portfolio. That is where we should be as a body. I am proud that we are bringing this legislation forward today. I hope that everybody will support it, regardless of which side of the aisle you are on. Obviously, I am the lead author also of the SAVE America Act. That legislation has been offered on the back of this bill.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“It is a privilege to serve in the United States Congress. When you come to Congress, you are supposed to set that aside. You are supposed to come here and serve. You come here for 2 years, 4 years, 6 years, 8 years--preferably not 40. You set down your personal interests, and you serve. Unfortunately, a lot of Members have been violating the spirit of that. That is why we are here today. We passed legislation in 2012 that made a lot of this transparent. Today, we have legislation on the floor that I am proud of, that would stop the ability of Members of Congress to acquire equities and would have significant transparency and presale requirements before you can sell equities you hold. Yes, I had legislation that would have required divestiture. I prefer that approach, but you have to build a coalition in a body.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend from Wisconsin, Chairman Steil, for his incredible work on this, his leadership, his friendship, and making sure that we are here today and getting this done. It has been a partnership I have been happy to engage in. I am proud of the legislation that we put forward. Let me say that again to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: I am proud of the legislation that we put forward. It is, in fact, good legislation. Let's back up 1 minute and talk about the problem. Right here, according to data I have got right now, 11,000 trades totaling between $600 million and $900 million of legislators over the last year. We have got one Member, a Democrat, $79 million of 406 trades; one man, a Republican, $75 million on 1,000 trades. A Democrat, $55 million on 3,923 trades.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“Madam Chair, I urge adoption of the amendment to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent on advancing American interests, not funding institutions that too often work against them. We are wholly prepared as a nation to be able to address these issues and concerns. You say, what will happen? China, Russia, and the rest of the world fear the United States. They do not fear the United Nations. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“We don't necessarily need a bureaucratic organization that its entire organizational structure and bias is structured against us, despite the fact that we fund the overwhelming majority of its operations. The United Nations has been operating against our interests. We are asking American taxpayers to continue to take those dollars and give them to an entity that has, in its open statements to the world, been against our interests so many times, time and time again, including siding with some of the worst countries on the Human Rights Council and the biggest abusers of human rights. The United Nations is put and exalted as somehow being those that we should listen to rather than the United States. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“Madam Chair, I note that it is just not enough for us to say that they can do better. This is an organization that has too often allowed terrorist infiltration within its own entities and sided with terrorist organizations directly against us and our allies. I have seen repeated reports of misconduct involving United Nations peacekeeping operations and too little accountability for those failures. We act as if the United States is not capable of working on unilateral, bilateral, and other bases to be able to do all the great things we want to do around the world. My dad is a polio survivor. There are a lot of things that we can do to try to make sure we are eradicating these things around the world.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“It has stood up in solidarity with the worst and most evil countries in the world against our interests and dared to wag their finger at the United States, built on the back of our funding and generosity and, by the way, real estate, to give them a platform to target us and to target our interests, in addition to constantly and consistently going after our friends in Israel. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“Again, I applaud the chairman for all of his great work on things like UNRWA, working in collaboration with me and others on trying to remove that funding--it was very important--the United Nations Human Rights Council abomination, the United Nations Population Fund, other things that I know that the gentleman has been working on. To be very clear, I am not trying to impugn the bill in any way from that perspective. I just wish to go further. I think it is important that we pull the funds from an entity operating against our interests. It has repeatedly failed to earn the confidence of the American people.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“When you are a nation that is $40 trillion in debt, when you are a nation that is trying to figure out how to fund the basics of government and find the dollars that we need to secure the Nation with a strong defense, to modernize our military, to ensure border security, all the things that we need to do while we are still racking up debt to the tune of--by the way, paying for interest on the debt to the tune of over a trillion dollars a year, spending more on interest than we are on our own national defense, it strikes me as an inappropriate use of taxpayer money to continue to send that money to an entity that has been working in such negative ways with respect to our interests as a nation.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.”
House of Representatives15 July 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Do you think the hardworking plumber I represent in San Marcos, Texas, in New Braunfels, Texas, or any other part of Texas is going to go out and get a battery- powered truck to drive across 10 counties to carry out his job or his livelihood? As I said before, the average EV costs $14,000 more than the average nonluxury vehicle. Mandates disrupt the free market. We have talked about the impact these mandates can have on the reliability of our power grid. Is the Nation's grid even up to the mandates we talk about? No, it is not because then there will be more mandates on what the grid has to look like. Suddenly, we are Spain. Suddenly, we are wondering why the grids are failing. Importantly, California's move empowers China, which dominates the EV market and uses slave labor and coal-powered plants to produce EV batteries.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“They have to pay their bills today. All the subsidies in the world aren't making those things economically viable for them. Whether you are talking about wind farms or EVs without the mandates, what is clear is the American people aren't buying these things because they are still not able to function and carry out their livelihoods effectively under the mandates. Higher costs and fewer choices for consumers hit low-income and disadvantaged communities the hardest. There is a reason why, when I drive around Austin, Texas, I see it is the rich folk driving around in their Teslas. It is the rich folk who are getting their EV tax credits. I see it. They are not in east Austin. They are out in the rich parts of Austin. Mr. Speaker, do you think that is an accident?”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Pelosi), the former Speaker of the House, came down and described that somehow we are not factoring in the price of clean air. With the vehicles that we are producing today, the fact is we have the cleanest air we have ever had. There is no problem with having EVs. It is the mandates that are the problem. It is mandating the American people must convert that is the problem. In fact, worldwide, the extent to which coal-fired plants in China, coal-fired plants in India, and other countries around the world are producing CO 2 and other particulate matter that is bad for the air is rising. Why would we undermine our own economic well-being to pursue a negligible impact on the overall global emissions, while driving up the price of goods and services for the average American family? They have to live for today.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, number one, Congress has an important role to play in repealing the Biden-Harris administration's EV mandates and other rules that are damaging the lives of the American people. When the administration transmits an action to the House and the Senate for review under the CRA, then it is Members of Congress, not the GAO and not the Parliamentarian, who decide whether and how we proceed under the CRA. The fact here is California mandates, which is what we are dealing with here in several of these Congressional Review Act actions, effectively take away Americans' ability to buy new gas cars, a hybrid vehicle, or the vehicle of their choice. It raises their vehicle and transportation costs. The gentlewoman from California (Ms.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Both parties need to step to the table to get government out of the way and to allow doctors and patients to be able to go get healthcare from a provider of their choice--not some insurance bureaucrat or government bureaucrat--in order to deliver outcomes that the American people want us to deliver. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“That is what we are putting forward, to try to deliver healthcare that would actually have a doctor and a patient relationship rather than a corporate overlord or government bureaucrat telling you what your healthcare is. That is the system that has been created. That is the system that we are living with now under expanded ObamaCare. That is what that is, expanded ObamaCare. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't want to talk about that. They want to talk about the expansion of that population into the able-bodied who could be and should be working at a higher rate of return by the Federal Government than is going to the vulnerable population, while California games the system to give money to illegal aliens. That is expressly and openly being acknowledged by California leadership. They don't want to have those conversations.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“When you have a trillion dollars of improper payments, when you have the State of California openly and publicly stating that they are gaming the Medicaid system and the provider tax and the Federal match rate to provide funds to illegal aliens and for their general budget to game the system at what best can be called money laundering, as was editorialized in The Wall Street Journal last week. When that is what is happening, when you have people on Medicaid who are getting a higher subsidy than people on Medicare, who have paid into it their entire lives, into the tax on Medicare; when you have people who are able- bodied who are getting a higher subsidy than the vulnerable population for whom Medicaid was originally created, then someone explain to me why we don't have a duty to fix that.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“That is the whole point of the problem with the rules and the rulemaking done by the Biden administration that we are trying to reverse under these CRAs, so that we can make things more affordable for the American people. That is it. We are trying to help the average Texan, the average New Mexican, the average American be able to afford to live, trying to be able to figure out how to get power, get a vehicle that they can afford to be able to carry out their job. That is it. On the issue of healthcare, the issue was raised, as is often the case by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, to try to scare the American people that somehow raising questions about the inefficiency, the ineffectiveness, the waste, the fraud of a government healthcare solution, that somehow that is taking away benefits.”
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“When you have a cloudy, windless day, how are you getting power? Who is making the parts for the solar panels? What happens to the solar panels in the environment when you are finished with the solar farm? All of these questions get brushed aside in a quest to say that we can have magical ``green, clean energy,'' when we have clean-burning natural gas in Texas and throughout this country that is producing a significant amount of economic benefit and power for our country and has done more to drive down CO 2 production and for clean air than virtually any other innovation we have had over the last century. Yet, we are impeding the ability to have more reliable power by virtue of mandates. That is the whole point of the problem with the Inflation Reduction Act.”
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“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would note that with respect to wind energy, yes, Texas is one of the leaders in wind energy. I worked for Governor Perry when the Governor was embracing wind power, and the fact of the matter is, as it has become a larger percentage of the grid, the reliability of Texas' grid has suffered, and now the consequences of having embraced wind as a significant portion of the grid are now coming to roost. We are now having to deal with what happens when these need to be shelved. Where do they go? They fill landfills. How much oil and gas goes into the production of said windmills? How do you get the power from the wind farms in west Texas to the various facilities where we are making power? How reliable is it during ice storms or during the heat of the summer?”
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