U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, has used his seat on the influential Rules Committee to press for red-meat priorities — including abortion, climate change and diversity programs — even on typically bipartisan efforts like the recent defense policy bill.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, arrives at a House Rules Committee meeting on Jan. 30, 2023, in the U.S. Capitol., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
But this year’s version of the committee is different because of the noticeable impact of three far-right conservatives — including U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas — whose membership was negotiated as part of the deal to make Kevin McCarthy speaker of the House in January. Roy’s amendment barring the Department of Defense from implementing President Joe Biden’s executive orders on climate change initiatives.
“The Rules Committee really did open up the floodgates for attacks on diversity, attacks on women, really wanted to roll back progress that we had made in prior NDAAs,” said Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. “The most extreme voices shaped the NDAA, and as a result, it was a piece of legislation that the majority of us could not vote for.”
Another Texas Republican on the Rules Committee, Rep. Michael Burgess of Lewisville, said some of the controversial amendments were unlikely to have reached the floor without the advocacy from Roy and his allies. “It’s a really nice illustration of how that change in the Rules Committee makeup, and the larger dynamics in the Republican Party in the House this year, have changed the way this operates. They’ve weakened the Rules Committee’s ability to let the majority leadership control the floor,” Meinke said.
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