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

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot of money these days, and college athletics. I
don't know how you feel about paying college athletes, in
some cases millions of dollars to compete in college name,
image and likeness deals all across college sports. And Congress
evidently feels the need to get involved in regulating some
of this. Therefore, they have something called the SCORE Act.

(00:23):
Most Republicans supported. Our next guest, who is a Republican,
of course does not. His name is Congressman Chip Roy.
The SCORE stands for the Student Compensation and Opportunity through
Rights an Endorsements Act. How cute is that? What does
the bill call for? Why don't you support it?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, first, great to be on skin them all. You
can't say yet how many Republicans will support it or not,
because all we voted on yesterday was what we call
the rule, which is basically how we proceed to a
matter in the House of Representatives. And yesterday I had
concerns because look, we went out, we were gone Thanksgiving
and home with our families. You know, I'm listening to
the things that people care about, and this wasn't anywhere

(01:03):
near the top of the list. And I feel like
there are other things that we should be prioritizing. So
I just disagreed that this is the direction that we
should go the week we come back from Thanksgiving after
two national guards have been shot, given the massive amount
of debt piling up in our country, the cost of
health care, of the things that I think Concorts should
be dressing. But on the merits, I do have concerns
with the legislation. I will vote on the actual substance,

(01:25):
probably not today or Mars sometime later this week. And
my concern is pretty simple. I mean, look, I was
part of the collegiate athletic environment, and I'm a big fan,
big supporter of college sports. Most of us are in Texas.
We're proud of, you know, going to our teams games
and so forth. But like right now, we've got an
upside down environment in universities and colleges. We've got coaches

(01:49):
who are getting paid not to coach tens of millions
of dollars. This bill would do nothing about that. There's
built doesn't address the fact that universities are getting massive
taxpayer funds, state and federal, hundreds of millions of dollars.
And now we're talking about quote profit sharing for athletes
who are playing on fields and in buildings that were
built by generations of Texans or Americans in other states,

(02:12):
and we're not addressing any of those fundamental problems in
the universities. We're not doing these student loans. We're not
putting universities on the hook for the hundreds of millions
of dollars in federal subsidies for student loans for kids
to get degrees and crappy degrees that don't prepare them
for the world. And so when I'm addressing any of
the real problems, all we're doing is shuffling money around
so people can go watch football. And look, I'm for it.

(02:33):
I'm for you know, Saturdays and Texas. But I think
we need to address the real fundamental issues underlying it.
And that's my problem with it.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, I got it. Let's talk a little bit about
the Pause Act. That's something you're introducing, would pause immigration.
Is it immigration from all countries or just certain countries.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, so the President is issuing executive order of pausing
immigration from certain countries where we've got real concerns both
in terms of the danger of the American people and
what's happening in respector culture in the United States. My
legislation and I introduced a few weeks before the President's
very righteous and appropriate executive order, would pause immigration from
all countries, with the exception of tourist pieces for people

(03:13):
that you know, come here for a week or two
to say families or travel, but it would pause to
any of the other pieces or ability for people to
come because we need to fix our system. We've got
massive abuses going on to h twenty pieces, as has
been recently exposed. We've got massive problems with what we
called diversity migration, chain migration, where you get diversity pass

(03:35):
and families that cousins and distant relatives were able to
come in. We've got significant problems still with the magnets
in our in our country for fort right citizenship and
other issues where there's abuses. Let's fix all of that,
and then let's kind of take a look at what
we need from an immigration standpoint. We're going fifty one
million people who are afford born in the United States.
That's about sixteen or seventeen percent, the highest percent in

(03:56):
our history. I think we should pause. We've done it before.
Let's kind of reset, make sure our schools are teaching
kids to love America and to believe in the Constitution,
the rule of law. Let's vet people for sure of law,
because Sharena is inconsistent with US certilization in our country.
And if you're here at the Shrita law and you're
not following our constitution, they're not principles. So those are

(04:17):
things that I think we ought to be doing, and
we should pause all immigrants in the process. I think
the President's executive order will take piece of that, and
I fully support it. I think Congress want to step
up and do more.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right, I agree with you on that one, sir.
Thank you for your time. As always said. And if
I don't talk to you, but you've down the twenty
fifth have of Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hey, Yeah, we had a great Thanksgiving, and Merry Christmas
all the listeners out there.