On this date in 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist 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’s 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's been far worse during hearings during the Trump administration 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”.
Chip, you toad, 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:
- January 22nd, 2019: Roy votes against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
- March 7th, 2019: Roy votes against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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 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: Chip Roy votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- 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 Republicans who vote against celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
- July 22nd, 2021: Rep. Roy is one of 16 Republicans who vote against HR 3895, the Allies Act, which was passed without his support to raise the amount of visas offered and to expedite their issue to Afghan translators and their families to honor our promise to protect them against the Taliban after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, thus feeling we should go back on our word and leave them to die.
- 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…
- November 5th, 2021: Chip Roy votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- February 28th, 2022: Chip Roy is one of only three Republicans who vote against the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Roy votes against HR 7791, to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 so that waiver authority could be granted to solve supply chain crisises for shortages of baby formula.
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Roy votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
- May 19th, 2022: Roy votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
- July 15th, 2022: Chip Roy votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcement by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
- July 13th, 2022: Roy votes against the Honoring Our PACT Act, to provide healthcare to veterans affected by toxic burn pits while serving in the War on Terror that leave them more susceptible to forms of cancer.
- July 19th, 2022: Rep. Roy is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
- July 21st, 2022: Roy is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
- September 29th, 2022: Chip Roy is one of 49 Republicans who vote against HR 8888, the Food Security for All Veterans Act.
- December 1st, 2022: Rep. Roy is one of 90 Republicans who vote against HR 6878, meaning he is perfectly fine with pregnant women in prison being placed in solitary confinement while claiming to be “pro-life”.
- December 6th, 2022: Roy, embracing the GOP’s white nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment votes against HR 7946, which was meant to honor the promise to grant citizenship to immigrants who served in the United States Armed Forces.
- July 13th, 2023: Roy is one of 70 Republicans who vote for an amendment that would cut all U.S. funding to support our ally, Ukraine, to repel a Russian invasion.
Chip Roy made headlines in 2022 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 looking to make women eligible “can go straight to Hell”. He 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.
Maybe that’s because he knew it was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped, which would have been in April of 2022 when we learned from January 6th Committee investigations that Chip Roy was in frequent conversations with Mark Meadows at the Trump White House trying to get “ammo” in the form of stories about purported voter fraud for him to flog in the public. Those were found to have come both before, and after the attack on the Capitol.
Chip Roy is currently threatening a government shutdown if the Biden administration does not resume work on Donald Trump’s boondoggle/white nationalist vanity project of a physical wall on the U.S./Mexico border.
This man is clearly the kind of ***hole who would work for Ted Cruz, all right.
One Year Ago, September 11th, 2022: Chip Roy (TX)… 2022 Update
Two Years Ago, September 11th, 2021: Chip Roy (TX)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, September 11th, 2020: Chip Roy (TX)… 2020 Update
Four Years Ago, September 11th, 2019: Chip Roy (TX)… Original Profile
Five Years Ago, September 11th, 2018: Joe Barton (TX)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, September 11th, 2017:Joe Barton (TX)… 2017 Update
Seven Years Ago, September 11th, 2016: Joe Barton (TX)… 2016 Update
Eight Years Ago, September 11th, 2015: Joe Barton (TX)… 2015 Update
Nine Years Ago, September 11th, 2014: Joe Barton (TX)… Original Profile