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Rep. Chip Roy on his vote on Reps. Walden, Brady, Collins, Foxx amendment to H.R. 3

December 12, 2019

Rep. Chip Roy released the following statement Thursday afternoon regarding his vote on Reps. Walden, Brady, Collins, Foxx amendment to H.R. 3:

If this is how Republicans are going to govern if we gain control in a year, then they are going to be met with massive resistance from within their own party.

My Republican colleagues need to stop dropping 350-page bills as the "Republican alternative," when it might be better than the Democrat alternative but has hardly been explored within the body to know whether Republicans should support it or not. My colleagues are putting Republicans between having to choose between the Democrats' untenable progressive proposal and establishment forced legislating. This is exactly the way Republicans failed the American people when repealing Obamacare in 2017 and the way they failed us on immigration reform in 2017.

We should not be legislating in the dark.