'A Sea Of Wokeness': Chip Roy Attacks Biden And Congressional Democrats' Agenda

gentleman from texas mr roy is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader i thank the speaker i rise today to talk about the state of affairs here in the people's house and the extent to which the majority has been using the time and the floor of this valuable body the people's house to promote wokeness first rather than america first and this is what we see every single day and i know i have a few of my colleagues here tonight with me because this is such an important time in our country's history we have so many important issues we need to be addressing ought to be addressing and yet the people's house is not addressing them and instead the people's house is focusing on advancing wokeness first instead of america first i've got a number of things i'm going to get into and talk about addressing these particular issues but i would i would just note that my good friend and someone i admire great deals birthday is tomorrow and that is justice clarence thomas and for those who know his story and have read his biography his autobiography written through the eyes of his relationship with his grandfather my grandfather's son justice thomas i think represents all that is great and good about this country he represents all that is great and good about overcoming the devastating impact of jim crow laws in the south the discrimination that we saw rampant in his native home town of savannah and watching his life story and walking through his life story and the progression of what that meant and where he ended up and what he achieved and then what we witnessed in that fall of 1991 with the obscene absurd actions by the senate judiciary committee chaired by the way by then senator joe biden attacking this good man clarence thomas attacking his integrity attacking his character and yet what do we see out of the life in the service of clarence thomas but the embodiment of the fulfillment of the american dream and a recognition of what you can achieve when you fight for it when you work for it and you overcome the odds against you and what a beautiful story it is and why do i raise that now because in a world of wokeness in a sea of wokeness all driving an agenda purposeful by the way by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to divide this country by race to divide this country and to highlight issues of division and separation as justice roberts uh fairly eloquently stated he said it was a sordid business that's divvying us up by race and we see it every single day and it is highlighted by this body and i'm going to go through that in a minute but every single thing this administration every single thing this democrat-led house of representatives everything that the democrat led united states senate is doing is designed very purposely to divide us by race and we should be better than that and i think there are things that we all know that are on the minds of the american people whether it is in increasing prices because we spent six trillion dollars and lumber prices are going up and housing prices are going up we have a border that's under assault and cartels who run our border and we're turning the keys of the kingdom over to iran and china instead of siding with israel and we're flooding the the economy with dollars and driving up inflation but also racking up mountains of debt all of these things are occurring and the regulations that my friend from texas mr crenshaw was just talking about the regulations strangling business we're paying people more not to work than to work and all of our small businesses are at home going stop it please stop it i've introduced legislation to say let's end those plus-step unemployment benefits will we debate those here in this chamber no no sir why because we're going to advance woke legislation we're going to talk about woke bills we're not going to talk about all the small businesses by the way often owned by minorities often owned by people who need to be able to hire people and they can't because this institution spent six trillion dollars and doled it out to destroy the american dream by paying people more to work than to not work it's absolutely astounding and that's what we have and this chamber is empty what have we done today we voted on a couple of random bills i don't know if there are suspension bills we're what we did today what are we even going to do this week the american people don't know because we're not doing anything they're looking at this chamber they're saying what are you doing we have an obligation to fight and defend the american people and to do our job and i'm delighted to have my friends from texas here and i'd uh yield such time as the gentleman uh from texas shall consume mr batman yes sir thank you so very much for having this special order on such a crucial time in our history uh you don't have to look hard to see the devastation left behind from the wokism movement currently plaguing our beloved country our schools and our universities our esteemed and feared military our government on every level and our history itself are being contaminated by those pushing socialism and division under the guise of being morally woke webster's dictionary defines the word woke as being quote aware of and actively attentive to imparted facts and issues especially issues of racial and social justice well i can tell you with absolute certainty that i'm woke to the following first i'm woke to the fact that innocent men women and children across the country are being hurt and killed because of the left's call to defund the police around this nation i'm woke to the fact that democrats are more than willing to spend your hard-earned tax dollars on housing and free handouts for illegal aliens but cannot be bothered to care for our homeless and our veterans i'm woke to the fact that the critical race theory is racist in itself and lastly i'm woke to the fact that painting america is a racist nation is wrong on every level and a slap in the face to those of every color every ethnicity and creed who courageously paid the ultimate sacrifice so that old glory could wave boldly and freely for years to come now i'm hearing calls from the far left and those that are woke to replace our beloved old glory where has common sense gone if the left truly wants to discuss social justice i encourage them to talk to the countless minority business owners who watched their life's work be looted and burned in front of their very eyes last year because of woke ideologies go talk to the engineer who was fired and can't pay his bills now because president biden has foolishly blocked the keystone pipeline go talk to the migrant woman who was assaulted and raped during her trek to the southern border of the united states because joe biden and kamala harris told her to come here and invited her here i could go on but here's the bottom line if we don't stand firmly against this movement america whose mighty wings have fought to defeat evil tyrants communism nazism in order to lift freedom-loving people out of the hands of oppressors all over this world could soon be a socialist dictatorship herself and completely unrecognizable to all who love her and fought for her and died for her and a world without a free america is a dark world indeed thank you and i yield back i think the gentleman from texas and i appreciate your uh remarks and your comments very much and i'm before in just a minute i'm going to turn it over to the other gentleman from texas in just a minute man i know he's got some issues he wants to talk about involving border security uh because as three representatives from texas here i think i can speak on behalf of the entire delegation at least the republican side of the delegation that our state is under siege our state is under siege in a way that it has not been for upwards of almost 180 years and if you think about what's happening at the border and the extent to which cartels have operational control of our border the extent to which we have uh attacks on american citizens ranchers who's getting their fences torn down ranches are being ransacked we have people that are struggling with migrants who are dying in these ranches migrants who are dying on the rivers we have migrants who are being abused on the journey we have little girls who are being abused if you spend a minute a minute on the rio grande instead of pontificating in this godforsaken chamber and you go talk to these migrants who are coming across the rio grande then you see what is actually happening to these human beings all in the false name of compassion and i would ask my friend from texas what his views are about the current state of things with respect to the border and i would deal them such time as he would consume i thank the gentleman congressman roy for not only standing in tonight to speak forthrightly to the american people but also including other members of the texas delegation to have conversation with the american people i'm not just about the topic of being woke but actually the things that are actually happening to the united states of america congressman you're exactly right there's a crisis in america today there's a crisis that takes place because of such a rapid and swift transition to the ultra left the transition that has taken place began immediately upon president biden accepting the oath of office and walking driving going back to the white house after he had taken an oath of office where he raised his hand to and he repeated among the other words to well and faithfully execute the laws of the united states well there's a little bit more than just well and faithfully to execute the laws of the united states i believe the american people want and need a stable person who will recognize that they need someone to work in their best interest in the best interest of their community in the best interest of their job in the best interest of safety in the best interest of trying to give every single person in this country a better opportunity to have a better life that is what i believe is behind the well and faithfully execute the laws of the united states in fact what has happened is there is a sweeping revolution that is going on in the united states of america by the elected officials elected officials who have turned a blind eye to the things in the past that were seen as stable as reasonable and something that was in the best interest to protect the people that they represented day after day we have watched what happened down at the border the southern border of this country i too went down i'm no stranger to the border i previously lived in el paso texas for a number of years my father served as the chief judge of the western district of texas and had to deal with not just the crime but some of the circumstances that happened along the border they came home to roost so to speak within the united states of america and as a federal district judge he tried his best to deal favorably fairly with people who violated the law but where there were people who were criminals who were not here to serve in the best interest of the united states of america those who would become enemies of the state because what they did is they would import drugs drugs which would kill americans we've just been through a terrible epidemic in this country of opioid abuse opioid abuse that we all recognize much of it was inherently begun and started here in the united states but that has taken hold with other drugs now fentanyl methamphetamines heroin cocaine and in that process we look to where this comes from this comes from other countries by and large other countries who have people who want to kill and make money off the demise of the american people and yet the president of the united states at the time he served as vice president because i know because the drug enforcement administration senior officials have repeatedly said that the intelligence that was given to the then vice president now president united states they understood firsthand that the danger that came from an open border that the dangers that came when we did not have active law enforcement and intelligence would cause the death of thousands of americans because of the illicit drugs illicit drugs that not only are addicting but even many times mixed in a way that a user never knew they were taking them the availability of fentanyl as an example and yet the president of the united states with this vast knowledge of understanding from his service to the country as chairman of the senate judiciary committee as chairman of the foreign affairs committee as vice president of the united states he already knew the story the story that he wanted to project was that he's a kid from pennsylvania who knew what real america is but what has happened is is that he personally and the radical left have created a circumstance in this country that we as republicans are talking about tonight that we are supposed to be woke to understanding the social implications the enormous implications to people that we represent and yet seemingly it is the police that are the problem seemingly it is the border that is the problem by enforcing the law seemingly it is the ability that they want for criminals to run rampant throughout not just our neighborhoods but across this country i would say to the young congressman from texas that we need your voice your voice of compassion your voice of common sense that says we need to move this country back to where it was simply a few months ago where we respect members of law enforcement men and women of law enforcement who make house calls because they're asked to come and make dispute resolution many times and then to take care of the law as it applies to a circumstance we need to get back to where we understand that the men and women of not just the customs protection and border protection border patrol are back on their job instead of being moved over to take care of one million people who in the first six months have come through illegally we need to go back to elected officials who actually understand that the people who elected them aren't forewoke what they're for is this body to come together to where we understand that we have an obligation to protect the men and women and children and seniors and disabled people of this country we have an obligation to stand behind our law enforcement and to provide them with better training and the things that they need equipment to properly do their job and instead we are watching our country whether it's chicago or los angeles or new york city where criminals run rampant because of woke that says we're supposed to defund the police department we're supposed to defund those activities that would offer safety and security and opportunity for the most vulnerable of our society and then blame others when people of color or of different races are harmed by criminals and thugs i watched this morning on tv of the murder that took place in chicago of the young couple that came to a stop slight and they were accosted and killed by thugs criminal thugs i watched in a street in a broad daylight of this weekend where a young man walking down the street in new york city was stabbed repeatedly by a criminal no wonder this happens we've already run the police out of town we've already run people out of town who legitimately can stand up and have that obligation madam speaker i come here tonight to join my two texas colleagues to say woke may be a something a term that we're supposed to get about enlightenment that we need to be good and better to each other that we need to understand that there are people who might not agree with me and i might not agree with them but woke has taken on a different theme it has taken on a theme of taking on responsibility and respect it has taken away the ability that we have in this body to effectively even be heard from each other it has taken away the ability of millions of americans to where they no longer feel the safety and security of their own home of their own city street or even their ability to stand up to those who have a different opinion so madam speaker i think what congressman roy is doing tonight is more than just uh standing up and expressing opinion it actually is an opinion that i believe millions of americans support and respect by this gentleman doing this special order tonight and i would call on this house of representatives and all of its members to understand that this phase we're going through will have a very difficult difficult conclusion for many people who cannot effectively get through what is happening to them to people who live in cities where police will no longer be to small businesses that are burned to the ground to judges who are no longer judging based upon rule of law but rather fear madam speaker we as the republican party are not standing up and yelling and screaming we have much resolve to us but we ask tonight that the american people hear us that we condemned what happened on january the 6th we condemn what is happening when people take advantage of law enforcement and take advantage of people and take advantage of this great country let us hope that tonight in our resolve of speaking forthrightly and honestly that we want to be that great country with shining cities on the hill where people work together where people have a common interest in goals for their communities and generations of people who can work together whether you be a retired senior citizen or whether you be a young child that knows not except that you live in a great country we need to speak plainly but we are not yelling and screaming we are not blaming someone else for the problems but we will say this the republican party of this house of representatives stands for people to be safe in their own homes for women who are in their own homes with their own children will not be taken advantage of because they do know they have a backup and that is of the police departments that they know that the rule of law will effectively provide them with the the needs that they have to live in the greatest country in the world that our law enforcement agencies will know that they can continue to evolve into professionalism that they will be able to effectively heal themselves and make the changes i call on law enforcement to continue to make these changes and my republican party has these conversations with law enforcement every day but i call on the director of the federal bureau of investigation christopher wray just as when my father judge william sessions was director of the federal bureau of investigation to stand up for law enforcement and expect them and want them to become professional madam speaker we must heal what has happened and sunday at church i heard no less than 50 times the word redemption the words that we are sinners we make mistakes that we need to look at each other with the faithfulness of a great nation i heard words of love and respect for those even that we disagree with but madam speaker we are not down pounding on tables tonight we're simply trying to say what we believe is true and that is that i believe that there are tens of millions of americans who want and need this country to be safe they want and need our elected officials whether they be republican or democrat that they need their elected officials to understand that their life is important and their family is and that until we get back to the standards of performance of expectations where where law enforcement is allowed to effectively professionally be there as the backup where our military knows that we are there to support them and that our elected officials will stand on the side of righteousness we are going to continue to wander through this terrible time that i call chaos it is my hope as we drop to our knees this evening that we do offer a prayer for our president president biden i know him and i know he has been through difficult times in his life but madam speaker i would ask tonight that we give respect and prayer and ask that the president please understand that the most vulnerable that are there still need others to be of assistance and we need to make sure that this country heals itself with love respect and admiration for each other i want to thank the young congressman for his time tonight for his bringing forth this opportunity to speak about where our country is and i want him to know that i personally admire him and respect him and appreciate his sound call for a voice of reason and opportunity for america's future may god bless our country i thank the gentleman for allowing me time to speak well i think i think my friend from texas uh particularly thank him for referring to me as young i'll take it uh you know interestingly it was uh and i'll probably have more to say about this more back in july it was 10 years ago in july that i was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma with a four-month-old daughter and a uh two not quite two-year-old son uh not 100 sure whether i was going to be able to do like i did this last weekend and go see my son play little league baseball and see my daughter go off to camp last week and you know that'll shift your world view a little bit as they say about what's important and what's not important and i can tell you that my dedication to public service was fully renewed uh after getting through that and i was very blessed and i got through cancer-free in a matter of months and lord william's still cancer-free but um there's plenty of wood around here but i knocked on my head instead but uh i am uh honored that you would take the time to come down here and join me and and say such nice things and i know that the gentleman knows that i mean part of the purpose here is our collective desire uh in this body to do what is right for this country and what what i cannot for the life of me understand is why my democrat colleagues continue to insist on using this body to stoke division and to separate us by race by sex by you know wherever we come from all the different ways you can possibly come up with to divide us rather than finding ways for us to unite together to protect defend secure advance this country going forward and my colleagues from texas know i know my friend from texas knows it has been a full 90 days since the vice president of the united states was tapped by the president united states to be in charge of the border yet the vice president has not taken a second to come to the rio grande to come to the rio grande valley to come to the border now it wouldn't be enough just to come and by the way if the vice president is listening it's not enough just to go but it sure would be nice if you could find the southern border on a map and get in your taxpayer-funded airplane and take a direct flight down to the border and go take the time to meet with texans to go take the time to meet with migrants to take the time to meet with local leaders and see what's actually happening in real time at the border i know the gentleman knows full well we just had 180 000 apprehensions in may we've had over seven hundred thousand apprehensions this year we've had over two hundred thousand got aways border patrol estimates a thousand got aways every single day coming through between the ports of entry because our border patrol our border patrol is now running processing centers in mcallen now we all know this we know this i believe the vice president knows this and i sent the vice president a memo outlining this just in case she doesn't know but it's happening to us in real time and it's happening to migrants in real time and it's happening to ranchers in real time i know my friends from texas know that we've had 7 500 pounds of fentanyl 7 500 pounds of fentanyl that has been intercepted by border patrol fentanyl is killing our children and what are we going to vote on this week what are we going to do this week i don't even know i flew back here to texas i got half my colleagues still voting by proxy even though we're not wearing masks and apparently we're but we're still voting by proxy by saying i'm voting proxy because of the pandemic we're not even having half of our committee meetings because people are you know we're doing them virtually we're doing them when we're home in our work periods why are we here why are we here when there's 7 500 pounds of fentanyl pouring into our border that's just the stuff we're catching by the way do you know how many children are dying with marijuana that's been laced with fentanyl it's happening right now you hear about like eighty thousand ninety thousand opioid deaths over the last year you know where that stuff's coming from why did governor desantis send resources to texas to help secure our border people said why would you do that that's texas because the meth and the drugs that are coming into florida are coming through the southwest border and anybody who follows it knows that to be true and why is that because the cartels that are now running the border profit immensely by moving human beings for profit and by moving fentanyl for profit the cartel jalisco new generation just absorbed the reynosa faction and just absorbed the cartel del noreste of los atas and nuevo laredo and they now have operational control of tamalipas and that is a dangerous cartel and they are moving fentanyl for profit and moving human beings for profit millions of dollars a day we know this to be true we know this from law enforcement agents on the ground texans federal authorities border patrol ice but they're not able to do their job because they're running processing facilities processing facilities for human beings that we say we're helping because we're saying that we're giving them asylum which by the way they're not claiming asylum under the statute as the asylum laws were meant to provide right you could they come across the river and there's a sign on trees at the rio grande which by the way the vice president my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would know this if they bothered to go to the rio grande but you walk down to the river and there's a sign and it says acilo with an arrow and it points to a bunch of bright lights sitting under the bridge saying go over there when i was at the river and i met about 50 migrants at about midnight there was a group of them and they were lost they were going around in circles so i drove my truck down the path so they'd have light in the dark so you could get to the processing center these are good people seeking a better life asked every single one of them why they were coming here it was for a job and opportunity it wasn't for asylum under our laws and we are making a mockery of our laws by saying that anyone who wants to come to our country for opportunity god bless them i understand why i probably would too if you look at the opportunity you have here as opposed to el salvador or guatemala or honduras right now i understand but we're turning our laws upside down that's not what asylum laws are for so why don't we just sit down and figure it out right because you can't just say wide open borders you can't it's irresponsible listen to the leaders of honduras in guatemala and el salvador they say it's irresponsible because it's devastating their own countries we say well why don't they fix it well we should have policies and work with them to try to fix it but you know what would fix it the most if we didn't have a wide open border if we actually stood up and said sorry y'all you can't just come in unless you fi you actually qualify under our asylum laws which is a fraction a tiny fraction of the 700 000 plus apprehensions that we have apprehended since january 1. but why are we here debating that why are we coming up with a solution to this problem so that migrants aren't being abused as i speak by cartels so that they can make money this is the greatest country in the history of the world but we allow that to occur we allow that to occur and we do so in the name of compassion we do so when people stand up and say oh well we want to make sure these folks can get here meanwhile we have people scream kids in cages anybody remember that anybody remember this the the kids in cages how many of my colleagues on the side of the island ran to the cameras sat in hearings screamed kids in cages the very structures put in place by the obama biden administration fact everybody knows it that's who created the chain-link barriers in these facilities at the border nobody blamed obama and biden for doing that airflow ability to see the migrants protect them oh no everybody went down and said kids in cages why because we had a massive influx right they said oh they're drinking out of toilets it was a lie they weren't drinking out of toilets they were drinking out of a device that had the water found on the same on the top with a toilet down below we have them in facilities all in our prisons facilities places where we have people coming in the water supply in the bathroom right off of this floor is connected to the same water supply between the toilet and the sink it's a pipe behind the drywall yet they went around saying kids drinking out of toilets it's shameful we can't have a rational conversation about what's actually happening in texas it's bad there are children in stash houses right now why are we sitting here doing nothing why are we going to have a vote this week on two suspension bills in a quest to go after more wokeness for i think it's some lgbtq uh i think small business bill or something on a suspension that failed to get through on the two-thirds vote okay debate that have it out they tried to get it through on suspension didn't get through so we're gonna do a rule we won't have any real debate on it by the way everything the american people see in here this is all a sham there is no actual debate on the floor of this body and anybody wants to come debate me on that i'm happy to debate it there is no debate on the floor of the people's house ever we haven't had an amendment on the floor of the house of representatives the people's house since may of 2016 that was in order an open debate on the floor of the house so that any one of my colleagues could walk down here and say hey i got an idea there's a bill you know what i'd like to do i'd like to change something in the bill here's an amendment i'd like to send it to the desk offer my amendment hey what do you think about my amendment it might make the bill better you know what i'd like to have had a debate on that last friday i would have liked to have had a debate on the juneteenth bill why because the purpose of that bill was excellent the fulfillment of the declaration of independence with the ending of slavery which we recognize in texas because of juneteenth i didn't support the bill because i didn't think the title was good there were some other factors but i didn't support it i would have liked to have amended it never get a chance to do it ever i would have liked to the ability to amend it but couldn't do it all right so you're you're forced for the up or down vote we have two thousand page bills that are two trillion dollars they're dropped on the floor and they say take it or leave it and i said well you know what i'd like to cut something or i'd like to add something can't do it i can go up to the rules committee i can say here's my thing and it gets voted down in rules committee you see amendments on the floor of the house it's all a fraud ladies and gentlemen it is all a fraud they are hand-picked amendments designed to make it look like we're amending but we're not sick you know 15 amendments from the majority five amendments from the minority bam hey look at that that's debate killing our country by partisan dropping of bills no matter who's in the majority by the way i said we had an amendment on the floor since 2016 guess who was in control of the house for two years of that republicans when are we going to actually sit down and debate this stuff and actually do the things that matter again i go home to texas and everybody's saying how can you possibly allow this to be occurring on our border it is the fundamental duty of the federal government to secure the border of the united states and yet we have fentanyl pouring in we have cartels who run the border we have mexico becoming a narco terror state we have danger to citizens in our country actually occurring we have human trafficking sex trafficking occurring in san antonio austin all up through i-35 going over to houston we stop cars in the san antonio suburbs that have nine immigrants and i'm going to a stash house in houston driven by an american citizen employee of a cartel i offered an op-ed explaining that to the san antonio express news along with the district attorney of kendall county texas and the san antonio express news wouldn't print it a fact-based op-ed we ended up printing it national review or some place online who wants to have a conversation about this stuff the american people do everybody i talk to in texas knows this is real but here we are and we have a house body that is more interested and frankly an administration that's more interested in advancing wokeness every single day than in addressing a wide open border that endangers us and the migrants who seek to come here i can't emphasize that enough a wide open border that endangers american citizen endangers our children and endangers the migrants who seek to come here which my colleagues on the other side of the aisle pat themselves on the back in the false name of compassion that open borders is somehow good for migrants and it's a lie it is a blatant lie and instead what are we going to get we're going to get a so-called infrastructure bill next week which will come through here on partisan lines and what are we going to have in there there's the uh provisions and programs that prior prioritize funding based on race ethnicity gender and socially disadvantaged status one provision that finds that race and gender neutral efforts alone are insufficient bill includes a study on how federal infrastructure planning exacerbated systemic racial regional social environmental and economic job in injustices we have ability establishes 41 new federal programs 20 million a year for implicit bias research and training grants related to racial profiling five million dollars a year for a program to increase transportation job awareness and diversity a carbon pollution reduction program on the international stage what do we see our own diplomats are undermining the greatness of america you've got linda thomas greenfield the ambassador to the united nations who said that racial equity is her top focus and that white supremacy is weaved into our founding documents and principles our adversaries like russia and china are weaponizing the leftist agenda at the summit in alaska secretary blinken brought up china's imprisonment of millions of uyghur muslims and china responded by arguing that the u.s is not much different mentioning black lives matter the uyghurs the military and veterans instead of working to develop a lethal battle ready force that will kill people and destroy things when called up to do so which is the purpose of a military under the guise of reviewing extremism within the ranks of the military in march special operations command hired the first chief diversity and inclusion officer we've seen examples of west point cadets forced to attend critical race theory presentations a space force officer was fired for saying quote the diversity inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military is rooted in critical race theory which is rooted in marxism the biden va will now be using american taxpayer dollars to cover sex reassignment surgery i had multiple parents of the kids that i was able or 18 year olds that i was able to nominate to go to the academies and we had a celebration in san antonio and every single one of the parents are coming up and showing me these videos from the air force academy west point academy talking about you know people having two moms and two dads and all of this woke training for heaven's sake it's a military i mean china and russia is looking at us and saying what in the world well they're licking their chops you've got critical race theory and education we're seeing a large-scale effort to impose tyranny over the minds of our children through taxpayer-funded indoctrination in evanston illinois students listen to not my idea a book about whiteness which states that whiteness is a bad deal and always was and that you can be white without signing into whiteness in cupertino california third graders were required to deconstruct their racial identities and then rank themselves according to their power and privilege in oregon ethnic standards will require kindergartners to understand their own identity identity groups including but not limited to race gender family ethnicity cultural religions ability an advisory board linked to virginia's loudoun county public school district demanded that teachers be dismissed if they criticize the district's equity training inspired by critical race theory we saw that the fellow that was removed or told that he had to be suspended in loudoun county i think he was finally restored because he dared to speak up about this meanwhile you've got corporations all across america and their corporate boards moving the major league baseball all-star game from atlanta georgia which is 50 black to 10 denver i bet all those white coloradans driving around with their subarus and patting themselves on the back while they go hiking with a rainbow flag on the back of their car or something feel good about themselves instead of celebrating hank aaron in atlanta georgia why because georgia was moving an election reform bill with laws that were almost identical to colorado but major league baseball said oh no we're going to go join the woke brigade and we're going to go forward and we're going to say we're going to move everything to colorado nothing was proved by that other than major league baseball's wokeness talked about border security and i talked about that because it's so critical to the people of texas we can talk about the other things that are critical all these programs i just talked about people ask well congressman roy why do you come down here and often vote no because almost every single bill dropped on this floor of this house spends money we don't have adds regulations that's going to kill small businesses divides us by race or adds more laws to the books does anybody think we need more laws more spending when we're 30 trillion dollars in debt i just once would like to see an actual debate with the 435 members representing the american people in this chamber about what in the world we're gonna do about 30 trillion dollars in debt but we got nothing we got an empty chamber american people can hear my voice echoing we're not going to actually have a debate about it we're going to just spend more money just to see who can spend more money does anybody have any belief that we're not endangering our kids and grandkids i mean somebody wants to come down here and expound on modern monetary theory about how spending all this money is absolutely fine i mean i'm happy to listen most people in america don't believe it 30 trillion dollars in debt soon six trillion dollars spent in the last year do you know how much it costs to win all of world war ii 4.1 trillion dollars in current dollars we just spent six trillion dollars in a year appropriated we'll spend it out a little over a year six trillion shutting down small businesses closing our schools we have a hundred thousand small businesses closed hundred thousand and now we're paying people more not to work than to work why do you suppose the vice president of the united states refuses to come to the southern border why do you suppose the vice president united states or the president refuses to go to the southern border and refuses to take me up in my offer to debate the vice president anywhere anytime about the border because she knows and the president knows they have zero defense for our current border policies there is literally no ability to defend the current border policies of the united states it's laughable a high school debate team would destroy the president or the vice president in a debate about our current border because it is so unbelievably unforgivable to turn our borders over to cartels but that is what this administration has done and again it look it's all tied back together this is all in the name of supposed compassion for people and a continued desire to try to drive a wedge and say that oh republicans just don't want those brown people to come here across our river that's what it's about that's the purpose of the fight and the divide meanwhile ask any border patrol agent ask anybody along the rio grande ask anybody who's being affected by it ask any of the migrants about what's happening how it's happening about the journey and i'm not saying that migrants that are coming don't want to be here they do but look into the eyes of the little seven-year-old girl on the border that i looked into who had no mom no dad no uncle no aunt no brother no sister nobody with her but we don't care because oh it's all fine it's all fine for us to have a system in which a seven-year-old girl takes a journey by herself from guatemala through mexico in the hands of the cartels to get to our border we say that's fine i can't state enough and the reason i'm using this time and i'm sorry i went a little longer than the time i thought i was going to use because my friend from texas uh used a little more time and i appreciate it as being here but every single person i talk to in texas views this through the lens of a existential crisis and yet it is absolute silence from the administration in this body you people wonder why governor abbott is starting to say he's going to take it upon himself in the state to build a wall or to fund resources at the border we've had to do it for years by the way basically a billion dollars a year texas has been or at least per session that has been funding technology i mean often the border patrol was using technology funded by texans cameras because their border patrol cameras weren't working radios and now the governor's going down there and saying he's going to do a lot of this now texas got to figure out how to fund it but it's our border it's our communities yet crickets absolute crickets devastating crickets from the democrat-led house of representatives and the democrats in the white house president biden and vice president harris who refused to even come to the border i don't know i mean the longer this goes on i i get why the vice president won't go to the border how could you look any american in the eye and say you're doing your constitutional duty to defend the united states of america and secure our borders anybody understand in this chamber and comprehend how bad it is for our future and the future of our neighbors to the south to empower cartels the way we're empowering them instead of being able to compete with china by having a robust free trade throughout the western hemisphere to be able to have a strong mexico that isn't a narco terror state that we can partner with that we can partner with countries throughout the western hemisphere and compete against china and not have this pressure valve coming to our border instead we are damaging these countries empowering narco-terror state in mexico empowering cartels weakening our country endangering americans my friend from the house judiciary committee is here i'm about to give my time up i'll give you a little warning here a couple minutes i'm about to yield i appreciate the work that he is doing with my friend from colorado trying to navigate the complexity of antitrust laws with respect to the size of massive companies particularly massive big tech companies and we're going to have a pretty robust day i think tomorrow in the house judiciary committee i do want to thank him since we're here in the chamber together uh for the work he's doing to try to address that i don't know if i'll agree with every bill tomorrow i know i'm gonna support at least one or two um we'll see what happens during the the process of amending and debating what i would what i would say to my friend is it would be great if we could address every issue with both sides of the aisle engaging and offering amendments and restore regular orders so that we can try to get to the heart and the truth of these issues we're never going to deal with our spending issues in this country if we don't sit down and roll our sleeves up like a family or small business has to do we're never going to address something like the border if we don't sit down and give and take and offer solutions that will work we're never going to solve health care we're never going to be able to have a strong national defense without by the way being involved in endless conflicts i joined with my democrats last week on a measure involved involving our presence in iraq i think we can find agreement at times if we'll sit down and do it but we can't bury our head in the sand and ignore existential crises and hope that they'll just go away so i'll just close by renewing my call to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle the vice president the president let's actually focus on these crises like the border and let's actually do our job and our constitutional duty to address them let's actually do what we said we're going to do when we took our owes to the constitution the united states and we said we wanted to be a part of the people's house to debate to amend to vote i'm not afraid of what we're going to do tomorrow to my friend we're going to offer bills we're going to debate we're going to amend we're going to vote we should do that on the floor of this house madam speaker we should do that on the floor of this house with that i yield back the gentleman yields back under this

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