Congressman Chip Roy represents Texas’ 21st congressional district.
Our asylum laws were never meant to encourage millions to make a dangerous journey to the U.S. They are not a blueprint for a human trafficking pipeline America is under siege by both cartels and our own politicians. Since day one of his presidency Joe Biden has made it clear that he would rather allow cartels to...
Everything that’s wrong with the H.R. 1 election takeover bill can be summed up with the propagandistic misnomer the Democrats have labeled it with—the “For the People Act.” It undermines the very right it purports to uphold, a citizen’s right to have a say in our representative democracy. Enabling fraudulent ballots to cancel out legitimate...
President Trump has had a very good week. But no decision he has made is more consequential or more correct than his decision to stand with Texas and 19 other states in challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare. While the left and the center-right “intelligentsia” often malign the president for acting thoughtlessly or impulsively, the defining characteristic of...
A conservative think tank with ties to the Trump administration is lobbying the White House to go big when it reconsiders the Obama administration’s signature climate change rule. U.S. EPA is expected to soon announce its plans to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan rule to limit power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions. And the...
As the long recovery from Hurricane Harvey’s devastation begins in Texas and along the Gulf Coast, the debate over when and how to provide disaster relief is just getting started in Congress. Sadly, the type of bravery and selflessness on display in Houston and East Texas — with Americans rushing to help those in...
We must not continue to have insurers serve as nothing more than another long arm of the state. Single payer health care is hardly distinguishable from that involving highly subsidized “third parties,” and yet that is precisely where the current GOP train is heading.
Chip Roy on CNN Monday, June 26, 2017 Sunday, June 25, 2017 Chris Jacobs on CSPAN Sunday, June 25, 2017 Deane Waldman on Sean Hannity radio Friday, June 23, 2017 Your browser does not support the audio element.
Eliminating all Obamacare regulations as the default while leaving an opt-in trigger, so states that wish to maintain the regulations may do so, is the only remaining compromise worth considering.
Before we dismantle the energy systems that have vastly improved human welfare over the last two centuries, the American people deserve an alternative energy future that leverages American resources to protect real environmental quality, to enhance human well-being and to make the world a safer place.
To reduce the federal tax and regulatory burdens that hinder economic growth this time around, Congress should pursue a "budget neutral" approach of cutting both taxes and government spending
If Congress is looking to promote real federalism and give states more control over health care, they should do it the right way—by affirmatively repealing all of Obamacare, including the Title I federal mandates and regulations that have taken such control out of their hands in the first place.
After eight years of promising to fully repeal Obamacare, Congress hasn’t even tried to do so in a process requiring just 51 votes in the Senate.