‘Where is this body going to go’?: Chip Roy calls out Democrats for their unilateral attack on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Congressman Roy went to the floor of the House of Representatives to criticize the partisan double-standard being used against freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and address comments she made in the past.

Full video of the floor speech is available here. A rough transcript of the remarks is below:

You know, about a month ago, three weeks ago I suspended my social media accounts — my personal social media accounts — and I did so because social media is pretty much consuming the way we govern. And I will just say, why are we covering by sound bite? Why are we governing by looking back at what somebody said on Twitter or Facebook?

This is a body that is called under the constitution to meet on the floor of the united states house of representatives — not by proxy, by the way — and to sit here and debate, and to debate the important issues of the day.

I was proud to say a few weeks ago, I was proud to stand with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to condemn what occurred on January 6. I joined with some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to disagree on the issue of objections, and then have a member on the other side of the aisle attack my former boss and friend, Senator Ted Cruz, and basically accuse him of being an attempted murderer.

I asked that that statement be stricken and there be an apology for it. I didn't ask that somebody be stripped from their committeeships. I didn't ask they be censured. I tried to engage with that colleague and have and will. And then this last weekend, had a statement directed at me, accusing me of the worst kind of horrific act.

Where is this body going to go, ladies and gentlemen? Now we're here in the first few weeks of this Congress attacking a freshman member who's addressing the concerns of statements that I take issue with, that a number of my colleagues on this side of the aisle take an issue with, and you are going to unilaterally strip her of a committee assignment.

This is not the people's house anymore. I made this statement yesterday on the budget reconciliation. I had a great conversation with the distinguished Majority Leader today about our need to restore regular order … I would ask my colleagues that we remove this.

I made a motion to adjourn because we shouldn't be wasting time of this body attacking a member of this body. This will not end well.

Earlier that afternoon, Congressman Roy motioned to adjourn the House, issuing the following statement about doing so:

I made a motion to adjourn the House of Representatives because we shouldn't be meeting in the first place if Democrats insist on unilaterally targeting my Republican colleague and spending our time on internal swamp drama for political gain when we should be focused on doing the people's actual business.

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