On this date in 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 21st Congressional District, Chip Roy, who was elected to office for the first time in 2018, and whose prior political experience was working as a staffer for the loathsome Sen. Ted Cruz until he saw a plum GOP-leaning seat left behind by retiring Congressman Lamar Smith. And boy oh boy, is Chip Roy showing us that he’s just as much of an ***hole as his former boss.
In May of 2019, a bill cleared the Senate to approve $19.1 billion in disaster relief funding for victims of wildfires and hurricanes, which included areas of Texas damaged by Hurricane Harvey. On May 24th, 2019, it was expected to pass the House with a simple voice vote, and most of the GOP content to let it pass by a simple voice vote, provided no objections were presented by Republicans. GOP House leadership had no intention of doing so… BUT CHIP ROY is just that much of an ***hole, and he decided to hold up the needed disaster relief bill because Nancy Pelosi thought a voice vote would suffice. Remember, though, this was a bill that got fired through Mitch McConnell’s Senate, and BOTH Texas Senators voted for. But Chip Roy wasn’t gonna let Pelosi get away with… whatever she was doing that all his fellow Texas Republicans wanted.
That isn’t a one-off for how obsessive Rep. Roy is, as he once kept members of Congress up until 4AM to try and secure money for Trump’s novelty project and all around stupid idea, the border wall… and it wasn’t just that he did that to just be a jerk to Democrats, who obviously have the majority and were gonna shoot that down… but it was that Roy ditched his own wife on their 15th wedding anniversary to do so. What a lucky gal she must be.
Meanwhile, in House Oversight Committee hearings, Roy has turned up to play defense as much as he can for the Donald Trump and his clusterf*** of an administration, including trying to insinuate during the Michael Cohen hearings that Cohen had only turned on Trump because he was bitter he didn’t get hired to work in the White House.
He was far worse during hearings questioning the actions of ICE for locking children in cages, where he claimed to have been to the border many times and never saw a child in a cage (in spite of photos showing this leaking to the public), he went on to say Democrats don’t actually care about the kids and are just attempting to “score political points”.
Motherf***er, this isn’t a game. THOSE ARE CHILDREN IN CAGES. NOBODY IS PLAYIN’ WITH THAT.
His voting record is, as you’d expect, one of the most rabidly conservative in all of the Republican Caucus:
- October 17th, 2019: Roy bravely votes “PRESENT” on HJ Res 77, which opposed Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria to the mercies of a Turkish invasion.
- October 23rd, 2019: Roy is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”.
- December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Roy is one of 71 Republicans who votes against a resolution to disallow Russia from re-entering the G7 and makes it the G8 until it leaves Ukraine.
- December 18th, 2019: Roy ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Roy votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- July 22nd, 2020: Rep. Roy argues that Texas was “moving in the right direction” in the fight against Covid-19 as the state jumped to one of the top three in the country in infection rates (which indicates he’s either clueless, or considers the spread of the disease as a positive).
- July 30th, 2020: Chip Roy went full-on conspiracy theorist and claimed that the entire Covid-19 pandemic was a “hoax” invented to hurt the GOP (apparently the hundreds of thousands of people dead because if it were just playing possum).
- December 10th, 2020: Roy signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Roy votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Chip Roy votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Roy votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Roy votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Chip Roy votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Roy votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Roy votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- March 18th, 2021: In a Congressional hearing held to address the problem of rising violence against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, Chip Roy begins echoing the rhetoric that spurred a rise in those attacks, blaming the Chinese government for the spread of the virus, and furthering the conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19.
- May 19th, 2021: Rep. Roy votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Roy is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- June 15th, 2021: Rep. Roy is one of twenty-one Republicans who pick a side to have rooted for in the failed coup attempt on 1/6/21 and votes against awarding Congressional gold medals to members of the Capitol Police who bravely defended members of Congress during the attack.
- June 16th, 2021: Chip Roy is one of 14 Republicanshttps://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/117-2021/h170 who vote against celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
- July 28th, 2021: Chip Roy rages on the floor of the House against mask mandates for members of Congress as advised by the attending physician for the House, saying that if he is required to wear one, instead, all of Congress should just be “adjourned and shut this place down”. He continued rambling and publicly questioning the efficacy of vaccines, while he was at it. More on him not wanting any legislative business to happen below…
Chip Roy is currently making headlines for some brazen sexism. There’s talks of making women eligible to file with selective service so they could be drafted should the U.S. ever have to have one for an armed conflict, and this simple equality has led him to have quite the fit, saying those in DC looking to make women eligible “can go straight to Hell”.
Rep. Roy also has ceased to have any kind of poker face about partisanship, admitting in a video he posted online that he views his role in Congress is to sow “chaos and an inability to get stuff done”, specifically in the hopes of helping Republicans’ cause in the 2022 mid-terms.
This man is clearly the kind of ***hole who would work for Ted Cruz, all right.
One Year Ago, September 11th, 2020: Chip Roy (TX)… 2020 Update
Two Years Ago, September 11th, 2019: Chip Roy (TX)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, September 11th, 2018: Joe Barton (TX)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, September 11th, 2017: Joe Barton (TX)… 2017 Update
Five Years Ago, September 11th, 2016: Joe Barton (TX)… 2016 Update
Six Years Ago, September 11th, 2015:Joe Barton (TX)… 2015 Update
Seven Years Ago, September 11th, 2014: Joe Barton (TX)…Original Profile