(Headline USA) Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, slammed Congress for allowing continued proxy voting – a policy initially rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic – and urged lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to “think about resigning” if they don’t want to do their jobs.
“Get your butt to Washington and vote,” he told the House Rules Committee on Thursday. “It’s our job. It’s our obligation. And if you can’t do it, think about not running again, think about resigning.”
“How many things have you sacrificed?” he asked. “When I miss the baseball game, when I miss school, when I miss the event, I’m doing it for [my son]. I’m doing it for my daughter. I’m doing it for my wife.”
Roy went on to suggest that many of his colleagues have an over-inflated sense of self-importance.
“What we do here is important, but I think sometimes we have a heightened sense of our own importance,” he said. “I ain’t that important. At the end of the day, our job is what’s important.”
Roy has blasted House Democrats’ continued COVID-19 “theater”, and even missed his father’s birthday to be in town for a vote last November.
Still in DC, ready to debate & vote against the @HouseDemocrats #BuildBackBS socialist spending spree. I wish I was in Tx with my Pop to visit after surgery on his 79th birthday, but Proxy Voting is BS – & he said “Son, stay there & fight those bastards.” #TakeBackAmerica pic.twitter.com/kpzx0lsAPD
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) November 5, 2021
He has also argued that proxy voting is unconstitutional, because the U.S. Constitution “clearly requires a member of Congress to be actually present in the House or the Senate chamber.”
