Further Extending Government Funding Act
Floor Speech
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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
There is a lot of noise in this town right now about government shutdowns, and the fact is, the issue isn't about shutdowns. It is about whether or not Members of this body will continue to use money we don't have to fund mandates, indoctrination, and the use of force against our citizens:
$73.5 billion for the Department of Education that subsidizes the indoctrination of our children with critical race theory and woke gender ideologies;
$10 billion for an FBI that was just used by the Attorney General of the United States to target parents;
$50 billion for a Department of Homeland Security that leaves our borders wide open, empowering cartels because Secretary Mayorkas fails to execute the laws of the United States;
$6 billion for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases run by Dr. Fauci.
Need I say more?
$592 million for OSHA, which has imposed an unconstitutional vaccine mandate on 84 million Americans.
I offered an amendment to strip any funding from this bill that would fund Federal vaccine mandates, and it wasn't even able to see the light of day.
This is about a Congress that is supposed to use the power of the purse, our Article I authority, rather than hiding behind the judges in Article III, to check the executive branch. We have a moral obligation to give voice and representation to the people who elected us whose liberty and livelihoods are being attacked.
My friend who battles MS is looking at being terminated from the university she teaches at because of the unlawful Federal contractor mandate.
The medical hero in Texas who is 9 months pregnant is facing termination under the unlawful CMS mandate.
Military personnel, including the 13-year Army veteran in my district who is concerned about myocarditis, are facing being discharged from service to our country.
These are our neighbors, our relatives, our friends--maybe not for some of you who go home to double-masked, vaccine passport cities. But these are real Americans that this government wants to go after.
I urge my colleagues to stop empowering executive branch tyranny over Americans, and I urge my Republican colleagues to not just vote ``no'' and give a speech, but go stand with Mike Lee. Go stand with others in the Senate trying to defend these Americans. We should not fund tyranny over American citizens.
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Mr. ROY. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
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