Chip Roy - Congressman, U.S. Rep. 21st District Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
There are people in our country who follow and practice
Sharia law. In fact, we've seen it right here in Houston,
right where we You know, we've got a guy who's
been harassing Muslim store owners who don't follow selling things
like liquor or other things in their stores that don't
follow Sharia law. He's been hassling them about doing that.

(00:21):
I think our next guest would prefer that person not
exist in this country, and I have to agree with
him on that. He's got a bill that's coming up.
Don't get where it's at in the process, but we'll
find out. Representative Chip Roy, welcome back to our show.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Great to be on.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good Morning, Good Morning. So it's called the the let
me get the official name here. It is called the
Preserving a Sharia Free America Act. What is in this bill?
What does it call for?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, first of all, thanks, I mean, and I think
for all your listeners out there, and understand what we're
observing around the world. What we've seen with France now
being ten percent Muslim, in the United Kingdom being seven
percent Muslim. But we're seeing and in Dearborn in Minneapolis now,
what you're seeing with the possibility of the election of
the mayor in New York. You're seeing the results of

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the purposeful action to flood the zone in the West
with people who are not sharing our values in Western civilization.
Now that's not to say that under our constitution you
can't believe what you want and practice your faith. But
what it does say is that when you've got a

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set of of religious values that actually are political values
that are extending into a political movement, like we see
with respect to Sharia and with Islamism, then you've got
a conflict with our constitution, the principles of the rule

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of law in our country. And I believe that is
an anathema to our constitutional republic, and now we're seeing it.
You mentioned the situation in Houston, there are other examples
throughout the country and what we're starting to see here,
and particularly when you talk to people through the experience
that they've been experiencing in London and in Paris. We've

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got to address that now. And we're a great country
and people can come here from all over the world,
but you've got to subscribe to our constitutional order in
our way of life. In my opinion, and I think
that is an opinion that is increasingly shared by members
of the United States Congress, and this bill would simply
say that we are going to have a process for

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vetting individuals that if they subscribe to Syria and we
go through that process, Sharia is in conflict with what
we have in our country. Then we should not be
bringing people from around the world who do not share
our westernes. And that's the purpose of the bill, and
we've got to work through it, have hearings, figure out

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the best way to do it. But that's what we
need to do.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Let me quickly ask you too about the government shutdown,
because what are we are day eighteen? Now. I heard
Senator John Kennedy yesterday predict that this will be the
longest government shutdown in history. Do you agree with that?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, when I first joined Congress, it was in January
twenty nineteen, and it was in a shutdown. If you
might remember, that shut down was over the border wall.
President Trump was right and trying to force Democrats to
get or to work with us on the border wall.
That one the last that I came up with the
total number of days, like somewhere around thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Days, Yeah, thirty four.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I think this one, I think could very well. This
one very well could go into November. Democrats are pretty
stubborn right now. We only need five Democrats to join
us in the Senate to literally just pass the clean
R that we passed until November twentieth village the simple
CR through November. So what do I think will happen?
I think Democrats right now are trying to pose some

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ideas where they vote in the penant on some subsidy extensions. Now,
these subsidy extensions are our dollars to go right into
the pockets of insurance companies. I oppose them, like forty
billion dollars a year going into the box of insurance
companies that raise the price of insurance for the averagar
working American family. So they might want to force a

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vote on that. They're starting to get a little wobbly
because they know there's no justification for what they're doing.
God bless President Trump russ vote. They're doing the hard
work of finding money to keep our troops paid during
this time, and you know, I think right now we're
winning this arguments. American people don't see why the Democrats
are doing what they're doing, but we'll see. I think

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they're going to keep going for at least another week
or two and then we'll see whether they go into November.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
All right, sir, thank you as always for your time.
Always good to talk to you appreciate it. That is
representative Chip Roy at seven twenty seven. Let's take a
look at your money.