good reason to stop the bill. even if it delays needed funding to people in his home state of texas. congressman roy, welcome back to primetime. good to have you here to make the case. let me ask you, over the memorial day weekend what did you tell your constituents that need this money? thanks for having me on and thanks for focussing on this important issue. speaker pelosi adjourned for ten days and everybody was out of town and i m heading to the airport to come home to texas and what i hear was that the speaker was inclined to bring forward a bill that would spend $19 billion unpaid-for, without any head nod to the disaster we ve got going on at our southern border and she was going to do so by unanimous consent. that means she wasn t going to have a vote and i don t know about you but the american people were working last friday but the house of representatives wasn t in washington. she was going to have a bill go by consent and i believe if you re going to spend $19 billion of
important issue. speaker pelosi adjourned for ten days and everybody was out of town and i m heading to the airport to come home to texas and what i hear was that the speaker was inclined to bring forward a bill that would spend $19 billion unpaid for and then she was going to do so by unanimous consent. that means she wasn t going to have a vote and i don t know about you but the american people were working last friday but the house of representatives wasn t in washington. she was going to have a bill go by consent and i believe if you re going to spend $19 billion of taxpayer money, we should vote on it. the people s house have a responsibility to do our job. i got you. i left the airport and went back and stood there and i showed up on friday and i objected. i have a lot of understanding of how much this means to people in florida and georgia and puerto rico, texas and how important it is, but the speaker had five