Republicans push for border crisis funding by slowing down House business with forced votes

2019-06-12
Source: WashingtonGuardian
by: Nate Madden

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A pair of House conservatives gummed up the chamber’s business with forced procedural votes on Wednesday in an effort to bring attention to congressional inaction on the ongoing border crisis.

As the House was gearing up to begin debate on a major appropriations package Wednesday afternoon, House Freedom Caucus members Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., forced the House into procedural votes over motions to adjourn, slowing things down in both floor action and committee business.

In a speech from the House floor, Roy criticized House Democrats for ignoring administration funding requests to deal with the border crisis as well as Congress’ failure to fix the policies that cause the current situation.

“As we speak today, a little girl and her mom will be abused on the journey through Mexico, while this country, the most powerful nation in the history of the world, buries its head in the sand,” Roy said. “This is a tragedy, and it is unconscionable that this body will not address it.”

Source: Conservative Review

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