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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“Then they want to blame tariffs when we are 90 days in, and we had massive and rampant inflation under the Biden administration as a direct consequence of the regulatory policies and the failed policies of the previous administration. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to parade around EV mandates like they are somehow going to magically create power out of thin air, ignoring the fact we are empowering China, ignoring the fact we are empowering Chinese child laborers while we destroy the cost of living for the average American family, take away choice, take away the ability of an American citizen to be able to go out into the market and buy a hybrid vehicle or another vehicle that they can use to travel long distances, do their job, whether they are a plumber, an electrician, or carrying goods and services in a truck, and then they wonder why the cost of goods and services go up.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Freeland said last week in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank based in Washington, D.C., that democratic allies should embrace ``friendshoring,'' the practice of building supply chains through each other's economies. ``If we are to tie our economies even more closely together, we must be confident that we will all follow the rules in our trade with each other, even and especially when it would be easier not to,'' said Freeland. She added that Canada needed to show ``generosity in fast- tracking'' energy and mining projects for its allies that need to ``heat their homes and to manufacture electric vehicles.'' ``I cite these examples because, critically, friendshoring must be green. The curse of oil is real, and so is the dependence of many of the world's democracies on the world's petro-tyrants.''”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“trading partners. In August, the U.S. passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which states that EVs containing batteries assembled in North America and made up of critical minerals sourced from the region could receive up to US $7,500 worth of tax credits, which could offset some of China's advantages in the field. According to Moores, steps like these could cause a ``generational shift'' and Canadian miners would have to be ready to take advantage because ``Canada has the potential to be the gatekeeper for the North America electric vehicle boom, a key pillar of the Inflation Reduction Act,'' he said.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“``Our community is right next to CDM, but they don't do anything for us.'' Renault, Volvo VW and Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, responded saying they recognised the importance of responsible mineral sourcing, took the allegations seriously and would discuss the findings with their suppliers. ____ [From the Washington Post, Sept.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Koffi, who worked at the mine as a security guard, told the Guardian he shared a hall with 80 others, with two workers sharing a mattress laid on a wooden board and propped up on bricks. ``I felt like a prisoner. I didn't have any freedom,'' he says. In interviews with the Guardian, some CDM workers say they are employed for as little as 88 a month. ``Payslips'' seen by the Guardian were written only in Chinese on a pencil-thin strip of paper. CDM is wholly owned by Huayou Cobalt, a Chinese conglomerate with interests in every step of the cobalt supply chain, from mining to cathode production. Renault and Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, name CDM among their suppliers.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“This way they don't have responsibility and can end a contract at any time,'' says Kashal. While some workers said they hoped to get hired directly by KCC, saying it offered better wages than other mines, 44 percent of KCC's workers are employed through sub- contractors. The price is paid by men like Luc. ``I started on 80 a month while working as a security guard at KCC. Then KCC terminated the contract with the subcontractor and I suddenly lost my job, along with 600 other guards,'' he says. Luc was recently rehired by another security firm at the mine, but says he is still earning less than 140 a month. ``The main companies are treating the subcontractors well, but the subcontractors don't treat workers well. The mining companies are benefitting a lot, not the local people,'' he says.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“``Where can I get another job?'' A spokesperson for CMOC, which majority owns TFM, said the company adheres to a number of international labour conventions and local labour laws. Since it acquired the mine in 2016, CMOC said it has contributed an average of 296m a year to the country's revenue. ``We are devoted to providing a safe, healthy and decent work environment to all employees and attach great importance to protecting the rights of employees,'' the spokesperson said. Mining for cobalt and copper is a vital source of income for DRC's government and creates tens of thousands of jobs-- with good wages for many--in a region with few other employment opportunities. But in some mines the majority of workers--almost 70 percent at TFM, for example--are hired through sub-contractors.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“``We're being treated in a very bad way by the Chinese. I'm a victim of assault myself. I was slapped across the face four times,'' says Mutamba, another worker at TFM. One Congolese worker at TFM described sitting through a two-hour meeting in Chinese, only to be given a two-minute translation at the end. ``We feel humiliated and embarrassed,'' he says. ``The way they are treating our people, you can't believe. We are just expecting them to have respect for human life, instead of using people like slaves.'' Over the course of the investigation, workers interviewed by the Guardian said they deeply resented the way they were treated, but felt powerless to protest. ``It's a shocking situation, but I can't leave the job because there is no other choice,'' says one.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“``The relationship between us and the [mine] is like a slave and a master,'' says Pierre. Stories of the harsh and dangerous working conditions endured by miners in the DRC's informal, or artisanal, cobalt mines--of child labour and miners being buried alive as tunnels cave in--have provoked an international outcry in recent years, forcing the western technology and automotive brands that rely on the mineral to look for ways to source ``clean'' cobalt, free from human rights abuses. Some companies in the cobalt supply chain have promised to stop sourcing from artisanal mines and instead get the mineral from large-scale industrial mines, which are seen as a safer option both for workers and corporate reputations. Pierre is not working at an artisanal mine, however.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Pierre is mining for cobalt, one of the world's most sought-after minerals, and a key ingredient in the batteries that power most electric vehicles (EVs). He says his basic wage is the equivalent of 2.60 ($3.50) a day, but if he works through lunch and puts in hours of overtime, he can make up to about 3.70. Not that lunch is worth waiting for: he claims he is given just two small bread rolls and a carton of juice. ``The salary is very, very small. It gives me a headache . . . The mine makes so much and we make so little,'' he says. If he takes a day off, he says money is deducted from his wages. If he is sick and misses more than two days in a month, more money is cut. ``You can't even argue. If you do, you'll be fired,'' he says, squatting on the dirt floor of the bare brick shack he rents.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Meanwhile, we are crushing our grid, the reliability of American power, making it more expensive for the average American and doing really nothing about worldwide CO 2 production. That is the truth. China and India are pumping it out. Meanwhile, my colleagues love to ignore the slave labor in China to produce the batteries that they drive around in their EVs while they pat themselves on the back and go to cocktail parties talking about how fantastic it is that they drive their EVs and how enlightened they are. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record three articles: `` `Like slave and master': DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars'' in the Guardian; ``EV makers' use of Chinese suppliers raises concerns about forced labor''; ``U.S.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am always amazed when my colleagues on the other side of the aisle ignore the fact that these EVs require power. Somehow they get charged from the magic fairy dust of the magic energy tree? I mean, what are we talking about here? How do you power up an electric vehicle? It is done by burning coal, burning gas, or the nuclear plants that we are not actually permitting or building in the United States, while China builds two coal-fired plants virtually every week. We are building none. Well, good for us. The vast majority of the world is producing power with coal and natural gas, and it is growing exponentially.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“We are making it almost impossible for people to fix their vehicles and be able to afford their vehicles with every new thing we add to it to make it more complex in the name of safety or the environment. The fact is, we can't be blind to those realities. That is exactly what is happening. That is why the American people are suffering from the inability to afford to live in this country. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“The mandate is taking the power out of the hands of the American people to decide, including, by the way, hybrid vehicles which allow individuals to have more efficient vehicles while being able to travel long distances, as I know the gentlewoman has constituents who need to do so in New Mexico as we need to do in west Texas and throughout the State of Texas. Additionally, the trucks that are required under California's unrealistic mandates cost two to three times more than a new, safer, and more reliable diesel truck. The fact is, we are driving up the price of goods and services. We are making it more expensive for the American people to live.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will note that neither the GAO nor the Senate Parliamentarian get a vote. It is sort of a shocking news revelation I recognize, but they don't get a vote. We do. The Senate does. We can decide what we think ought to apply. Number two, if my colleagues want to talk about the high price of vehicles, how about the extent to which the average EV costs $14,000 more than the average nonluxury vehicle. According to the latest data from Kelley Blue Book, the average transaction price for electric vehicles is $55,273, 3.7 percent higher than last year. For context, the median household income for the gentlewoman's district is $62,000. The fact of the matter is, EVs are expensive. EVs are driving up the price of vehicles.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“It is the only State allowed to seek waivers for its own vehicle policies due to a provision in the Clean Air Act crafted to allow California to address Los Angeles area smog, and so they have an outside impact on our ability to get affordable vehicles, including, by the way, hybrid vehicles which would be unnecessarily impacted by where California wants to go and which we want to try to solve. Mr. Speaker, I also note that California, as KTLA reported in a January 30 article, continues to lose more people than come into other States because of the tragic and unfortunate policies of the State of California. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“I can keep going down the list of dead Americans at the hands of the foolish, incompetent, and dangerous policies of the Biden administration that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle did not want to answer. That is the simple truth. When we wanted to get data about the border, they didn't want to answer it. It wasn't because of COVID. Mr. Speaker, I note with respect to California that California's mandates effectively take away America's ability to buy new gas cars. As I mentioned earlier, California gets some special treatment.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, a couple quick points on the resolutions of inquiry. I won't waste a whole lot more time on it. The fact is, one, we have extended this through September 30 only at our request to limit it because we want to be able to get through reconciliation. Two, my colleagues want to blame COVID. Committees were still in full operation. The fact of the matter is my colleagues didn't want to answer questions that we were asking about the border because they were unanswerable. The border was wide open. Americans were getting killed. Americans like Jocelyn Nungaray, Americans like Laken Riley, Americans like Rachel Morin, and Americans like Kayla Hamilton.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“In the majority, we are sitting here, and we have more closed rules. Do we want open rules? Then what will happen when the Democrats are in charge? Do you want resolutions of inquiry? What do we do to bind the hands of a future House on those points if not us agreeing to respect each other's ability to do that? Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller), my friend.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Maybe that is good or bad, but maybe we should decide the rules we want to operate under and then apply them to both sides. Right now, we are operating under a 60-vote threshold in the Senate. I think that is something maybe we ought to put to a vote right here in this body, in the House, and say: Do we believe that the United States Senate should operate under a 60-vote threshold? Because if you go watch the Twitter feed of Kyrsten Sinema, she is pretty explicit about what she is watching and the hypocrisy of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in the Senate who now suddenly have newfound love and respect for the 60-vote threshold. My point being, if we are going to change the body institutionally, then let's have a real conversation about changing the body institutionally. Closed rules, I get it.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“If we want resolutions of inquiry to just be allowed in perpetuity, then maybe we need to come up with a way to try to guarantee that and do that, but that is not what happens. We have turned them off. Both sides have turned them off. I would also add, for example, for the filibuster rule in the Senate, are we going to abide by the 60-vote threshold in the Senate as a Congress? My colleagues on the other side of the aisle tried to change the filibuster rule for judges and succeeded, and now, we have a 51- vote threshold for judges. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle tried to change the rule for legislation, and but for Kyrsten Sinema and but for Joe Manchin, they would have done so. Then, the Senate would have been operating by a 51-vote threshold for legislation.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“I had some Democratic colleagues and friends of mine that would say: I like that idea, but I don't know if right now is the time. Okay, but let's have the conversation. Let's take ROIs, what we call resolutions of inquiry, a tool in which we can specifically go ask for specific information. We have engaged in that effort. I certainly have. For over 600 days in the 116th and 117th Congresses, ROIs, these resolutions of inquiry, were blocked from coming to the floor by the Democratic majority. That is, of course, the ``you did it, so we will do it'' argument--not particularly satisfying if you want to have an open body. I think the question would be: What do my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to have? What should the rule be?”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I miss getting that admonition. It was a pretty regular occurrence in my various floor speeches. With respect to the resolutions of inquiry, let me put out there that it is my strong preference, as I have said multiple times on the floor of the House, that we come up with a system that allows the body to work its will and that we allow individuals to be able to move forward in good faith to get information and ask questions of the executive branch, no matter who is in power. I introduced the ARTICLE ONE Act to try to restrict Presidential power under the Trump administration the first time and had trouble getting it moved during the Biden administration. I am not really even pointing fingers. I am acknowledging the politics.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Let's remember that California gets treated specially and uniquely and that that then has a domino effect through the rest of the country. That is unique to California based on past precedent involving Los Angeles smog and other things where that is causing a direct impact on other States across the country. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Every one of these regulations add up to interference with the enjoyment of life by the American people, drive up the price of the goods and services for the average hardworking American family, make vehicles more expensive, make our lives more costly. Then people wonder why they are suffering from inflation and suffering from the inability to afford to live in the modern world. This Congress is taking steps to undo that damage, working with the White House to restore the ability of the average American family to live and afford the basic necessities of life, including vehicles and the right to be able to choose the vehicle of their choice in an open market. Mr. Speaker, I know my colleagues are going to say that we are infringing on California.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“These bills would repeal the California advanced clean cars waiver allowing the State to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035; put an end to California's implementation of its most recent nitrogen oxide engine emission standards, which create burdensome and unworkable standards for heavy-duty, on-road engines; nullify a rule by the National Park Service that would infringe on the employment of a recreational area, contravening the agency's own mandate when it was created; and, finally, one that would end an Endangered Species Act designation by the Fish and Wildlife Service that would threaten water resources and other conservation efforts. Mr. Speaker, these things matter to the average American. My colleagues are going to say that this is small ball, and it doesn't matter.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Under these bills, we would repeal California's advanced clean trucks waiver, which currently would allow the State to mandate the sale of zero-emission trucks. It would allow the State to mandate the sale of zero-emission trucks.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“I wouldn't think we would have to spend time on the floor of the House of Representatives doing those things or having the President do it by executive order, but here we are. The President has unlocked America's energy potential, or at least taken a giant step to doing so, by reopening 625 million acres for drilling, withdrawing from the disastrous Paris climate agreement, and approving new LNG projects. Mr. Speaker, here before us today, we have what we call CRAs, under the Congressional Review Act. The purpose of these is to undo burdensome Biden regulations. This is our ability and our prerogative to hold the Biden administration accountable, and that doesn't stop just because the Democrats lost an election and we have a Republican in the White House. We have a duty to undo some of that damage.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“They decreased by 94 percent. What changed? Have we passed a massive law? Have we enacted the law that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle said last year was necessary, this bipartisan bill which, by the way, would have codified all the bad policies under the Biden administration? No. The only thing that changed was a White House willing to enforce the law. That is literally it, and now there is a 94 percent reduction in apprehensions at the border. Keep in mind that we are now at apprehension levels of somewhere around 100 to 200 a day, 3,000 to 6,000 a month. We had 6,000, 8,000, 10,000 apprehensions per day under the Biden administration. The President has restored common sense by ending DEI in the military and working to keep men from competing in women's sports, affirming that there are two genders. These are common sense.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Justice Elena Kagan talked about the need for injunction relief. The Democratic Solicitor General under the previous administration talked about the need for injunction reform. We offered legislation that would change and reform injunctions. We passed that before Easter so that a single judge won't be legislating and making national policy by granting temporary restraining orders and injunctions. We made changes on border policy with the Laken Riley Act, which is extremely important; and legislation to combat the flow of fentanyl. Importantly, what we have been trying to do is undo the damage on the border. Mr. Speaker, keep in mind what has happened now under the first 100 days. In just 100 days, southwest border apprehensions have decreased by 94 percent year over year. Mr. Speaker, consider that for a second.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“While, just on occasion, Jim and I might have disagreed here on the House floor--it has been known to happen--we are all united in offering our condolences and prayers for Jim's family, and God bless Molly and his entire family. Mr. Speaker, on the legislation that is before us, I know that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are, no doubt, about to launch into how we have had an ineffective first 100 days and Congress is not doing anything. Let me put in perspective for the American people what we are focusing on. We are focusing on undoing the damage of the last 4 years of the Biden administration.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“I told my Committee on Rules colleagues last night in committee, in my time in treatment at MD Anderson, going through chemo seemed trivial to me compared to watching the parents at MD Anderson who were watching their children go through treatment. Molly went to Heaven last week while visiting a friend in Italy, and I think I speak for everybody in this body when we offer our deepest condolences to Jim and to his entire family and to our colleagues who were so close with and knew Molly, who, by the way, from memory I believe worked for Jamie Raskin as an intern, and had her own engagements in public service. When I heard of her passing, I did a little googling about her life, her love for sports and Boston sports, her love of her dad, and how proud she was of her dad.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Finally, the rule tolls the date counts regarding resolution of inquiry until September 30, 2025. Mr. Speaker, before I get into the substance of this, I will start by saying on the Committee on Rules we tend to get to know each other pretty well in significant late-night engagement in debate. The ranking member of the Committee on Rules, Mr. McGovern from Massachusetts, has had an unfortunate loss that words cannot possibly convey as a dad what he and his wife are going through with the loss of his daughter, Molly. I say from this side of the aisle, I know speaking for the entire Committee on Rules irrespective of party affiliation, how much Jim, his wife, and his son are in our prayers after losing their daughter and sister, Molly, to cancer. As a cancer survivor, I have seen firsthand the horrors of the disease.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this rule and in support of the underlying legislation. Last night, the Committee on Rules met and produced a rule providing for consideration of five pieces of legislation. H.J. Res. 60 and H.J. Res. 78 are both considered under a closed rule, each with 1 hour of debate, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources or their respective designees and provides each a motion to recommit. Additionally, H.J. Res. 87, H.J. Res. 88, and H.J. Res. 89 are all considered under a closed rule, each with 1 hour of debate, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees and provides each a motion to recommit.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Leger Fernandez), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. General Leave”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 354 and ask for its immediate consideration.”
House of Representatives29 April 2025Source ↗
“Worse, the American people are going to end up on the short end of the stick because it absolutely increases deficits. No one can deny it. Anyone who wants to get in a room and come debate me with a whiteboard, show me the math. At some point, if you are in Congress, pass a math test because the Senate bill doesn't add up. It will destroy this country with more deficits and the inflation tax that is crippling the average American family. Mr. Speaker, I will not vote for the Senate bill.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“We are crippling the very program they say they want to uphold while we allow money laundering to California, which they brag about openly, to give money to those who are here illegally and to destroy the program with an FMAP rate that is higher than the vulnerable, giving out more money than we even give to Medicare. To my friends on this side of the aisle: When are we going to get serious about spending? The House budget actually does a job of trying to get to budget neutrality, balancing tax policy and spending policy. The Senate sent over a joke, and we are going to capitulate to the Senate, knowing full well that the Senate instructions carry the day. We are going to be sitting there in a reconciliation debate where we are going to end up on the short end of the stick.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I appreciate the able job that he has done in ushering through a responsible budget on the House side of the Capitol. Unfortunately, we are here debating an irresponsible budget sent over to us from the Senate. First, before my colleagues on the other side of the aisle applaud me for my opposition to the Senate bill, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to acknowledge any program that they don't think they can just continue to shovel money out from, despite the fact it has terrible outcomes. Medicaid is debilitating the vulnerable, not helping them. We are shoveling money out to the able-bodied on the back of expansion of ObamaCare.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“Republicans are responding to an American people who are tired of the previous administration that was allowing illegals to come into our country, kill our citizens, vote in our elections, and undermine our country. We are addressing their concerns, and our colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't want to address it. Mr. Speaker, I stand in support of the rule, and I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for yielding me time.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, again, Republicans have brought forward a rule containing a bill that addresses a problem that Democrats have identified as a problem, to say that the parties before the court are the only ones to whom it should apply and allows for a mechanism to achieve nationwide injunctions through a three-judge panel. Mr. Speaker, we are also bringing to the floor a bill that will say that only American citizens should vote in American elections. The controversy--oh, my gosh--the bloodletting, that we might say in the United States House of Representatives that only American citizens should be able to vote in American elections. Yet, that is what we are doing.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“The Biden administration's solicitor general in 2024 told the Supreme Court: ``A court of equity may grant relief only to the parties before it.'' In 2022, that same solicitor general asked the Supreme Court to address nationwide injunctions. In 2022, Justice Elena Kagan spoke out against the ability of a single judge to stop implementation of a policy across the country. Lo and behold, we are advancing bipartisan work to address a bipartisan problem that Democrats have very clearly identified. The only difference now is that Donald Trump is in the White House instead of Joe Biden.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“{time} 1230 Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the United States Supreme Court said: Stop. You don't get to do that, Mr. District Judge in D.C. If you are going to do this, you have to do this in Texas. Mr. Speaker, that was the whole point. Just today, we had another ruling out of the Supreme Court slapping down yet another activist judge. What are we doing, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) asks. What are we doing as Republicans? We are putting forward language today that would stop rogue district judges from carrying out nationwide injunctions and temporary restraining orders and who are trying to effectively legislate from the bench. Mr. Speaker, we are not alone in that position.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“This is the same gang that was torturing and driving fear into the hearts of the people in Aurora, Colorado, in the apartment complexes that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to acknowledge. These are all the same people who are being allowed to vote, the same people that we were elected in November to remove from the country. The President of the United States as Commander in Chief in defending the United States and as the Chief Executive is carrying out the laws to remove dangerous individuals from the United States of America. Then, an activist district judge in the District of Columbia decided that, in his view, he had to step in. He had to step in to try to assert his jurisdiction where it did not belong to try to stop the President of the United States from removing dangerous gang members who are killing Americans.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding. My friend was talking about rigging the rules. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are all too happy to have district judges rig the rules to stop the President of the United States from being able to defend our country. Just last week, within close proximity to my house in Dripping Springs, Texas, 47 individuals who are affiliated with the gang Tren de Aragua were found by ICE. Right down the road in suburban Austin, Texas, 47 people, including 9 children, were found in what was a stash house, moving narcotics through it. This is the same gang that killed Jocelyn Nungaray last summer.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, today, the President of the United States issued 21 very important pardons of individuals who had been put in jail, prosecuted, persecuted, for their religious beliefs and exercise of their speech.”
House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining.”
House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on H.R. 21.”
House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗