Hill Country Chronicle

On Wednesday, Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) issued a statement after voting on H.R. 9747.

"Today I voted against, H.R. 9747.

This three-month continuing resolution is the worst possible outcome the House could have chosen. It punts the expiration of government funding until right before Christmas, which almost certainly sets the stage for a massive, uniparty omnibus spending bill that will tie the hands of a potential incoming Trump administration.

It didn’t have to be this way. Last week, we could have passed a bill to avoid a lame duck omnibus by freezing spending for 6 months and force Senate Democrats to take action on non-citizen voting by attaching my bill, the SAVE Act (HR 8281).

Unfortunately, the House declined to take that route, playing right into the hands of the Washington uniparty. Now, Congress is conducting more of the same reckless business as usual that the American people have rightfully come to despise.

This country deserves better from its representatives than that."