Friday, May 24, 2019

A Chip Off The Old Cruz



Let the name "Chip Roy" ring out across the land.  Because they're all monsters.
Conservative blocks House passage of disaster relief bill

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, blocked a disaster relief bill in the House on Friday by objecting to a unanimous consent vote.

The Texas Republican who previously worked for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), argued the House should not have recessed before debating the legislation and holding a vote.

“I'm here today primarily because if I do not object, Congress will have passed into law a bill that spends $19 billion of taxpayer money without members of Congress being present in our nation's capital to vote on it,” he said on the floor.

“Secondly, it's a bill that includes nothing to address the clear national emergency and humanitarian crisis we have at our southern border.”

He also cited concerns with how the bill would ultimately be paid for.

The $19.1 billion disaster aid package, which did not include the $4.5 billion in border funding requested by President Trump, passed the Senate in an 85-8 vote on Thursday...
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2 comments:

Dark Phoenix (Nixa) said...

"I'm here today primarily because if I do not object, Congress will have passed into law a bill that spends $19 billion of taxpayer money without members of Congress being present in our nation's capital to vote on it,” he said on the floor."

Some members may not have been able to vote on this! That's not fair, and Repubs are all about fairness, right? Oh, wait... Guess it's not THAT big a deal...

"After the clash over her comments, the committee voted to strike Underwood's comments from the record. Nine Republicans voted to delete the remarks and seven Democrats voted against doing so; 10 Democrats were not present for the vote."

But of course, only if it's DEMS that aren't present for a vote...

Robt said...

I just do not understand this republicans concerns.

* Trump has the sole power to appropriate money for his wall. So he can appropriate any money this Texas GOPer is able to imagine to whine about.

* If this Texas GOPer would just go have a drink with Mitch McConnell and work it out. He wouldn't need to use this as some sort of campaign reelection issue. After all, He and Republicans have given everyone a huge tax cut and now Government dows not have the money for this, not everyone pays in taxes for this and everyone with all those MAGA tax cuts dollars they borrowed to pass out should have plenty of money to pull themselves up by their TAX CUT boot straps.

I will bet this congressman will have zero Town Halls this congressional recess with his district.