{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/31-house-republicans-led-rep-roy-vow-oppose-any-legislative-priority-senators", "31 House Republicans, led by Rep. Roy, vow to oppose any legislative priority of senators who vote for omnibus", "2022-12-21", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Chip Roy", "R000614", "roy.house.gov", "roy", "https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014 On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) and 30 House Republicans warned that they would do everything in their power to \u201cthwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts\u201d of senators who vote for this week\u2019s $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.\n\nThe Members urged Senate Republicans to \u201cuse every tool possible to kill this bill\u201d and warned that \u201cfailure to do so will result in not only legislative and political consequences, but irrevocable consequences for our nation.\u201d\n\nThe letter lists several of the omnibus\u2019 most egregious provisions that will \u201ccontinue the Washington status quo,\u201d including funding a Federal Bureau of Investigation suppressing free speech and labeling parents as domestic terrorists, a State Department promoting all manner of radical ideology abroad, and, perhaps most importantly, a Department of Homeland Security refusing to secure the border.\n\n\u201cWe must stop the assault on Texans and the American people,\u201d the Members concluded. \u201cKill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.\u201d\n\nFull text of the letter can be found here and below.\n\nDear Senate Republican Colleagues, As you know, yesterday at 1:30a.m., the text of the Democrat-led omnibus appropriations package was released, and it confirmed what we already knew to be true \u2013 this bill is a full-scale assault on the American people. This 4,155-page bill spends $1.7 trillion to further empower the Biden administration\u2019s tyrannical attack on the liberty and security of our constituents, and it must be opposed with any fiber of political fortitude Senate Republicans still have.\n\nOnce again, we urge Senate Republicans to use every tool possible to kill this bill. Failure to do so will result in not only legislative and political consequences, but irrevocable consequences for our nation.\n\nThis omnibus will undeniably continue the Washington status quo that Americans are fed up with. It will fuel the rampant inflation that is cutting into Americans\u2019 paychecks. It will add to our $31 trillion national debt, digging a deeper hole for our children and grandchildren to crawl out of. And because almost every Senate Republican has bloviated about inflation and the national debt at some point in the past two years, a vote for this bill should be viewed as a blatant display of hypocrisy.\n\nAs expected, the bill increases funding for President Biden\u2019s bureaucrats and wholly fails to impose meaningful checks on his radical agenda. It increases funding for an FBI that is colluding with big tech to suppress free speech, labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and targeting pro-life Americans. It gives more money to the NIH, CDC, FDA, and other agencies that are actively conspiring with big healthcare to our detriment. It increases funding for a State Department that failed in its basic function to get Americans out of Afghanistan while funding things like drag shows in foreign countries. It further empowers EPA and other agencies to wage war on reliable US energy. And it provides another $45 billion for Ukraine while failing to hold the Pentagon brass accountable for promoting the woke ideology that is gutting the culture of our Armed Forces.\n\nBut perhaps most offensively, for at least nine months, this omnibus will deny the incoming House GOP majority any leverage to enact crucial policy changes needed to secure our border through the power of the purse. And not only does this bill disregard actual border security, it also doubles down by providing DHS with an additional $3.2 billion to continue processing and releasing illegal migrants at a faster pace and larger scale, which will only make this crisis worse. With this bill, the American people will endure at least nine more months of record fentanyl overdoses, surging migrant crossings, rampant cartel activity, property destruction, and migrant deaths. A vote in favor of this bill is a vote for every bit of it, and it will solidify Senate Republicans\u2019 role in perpetuating this crisis.\n\nOn Monday, the Senate Republican leader inexplicably called this bill \u201ca strong outcome for Republicans.\u201d We wholly disagree \u2013 this bill completely contradicts everything the Republican party claims it stands for. We have a duty to stand up for Americans and put an end to the border crisis. We have a duty to use the power of the purse to stop the Biden administration\u2019s radical agenda. And we have a duty to stand athwart the rampant government spending that has caused crushing inflation. Voting in favor of this bill is a dereliction of our duty on all counts.\n\nThe released legislative text confirmed this omnibus is an assault on the American people. As such, we reiterate that if any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage \u2013 including the Republican leader. We will oppose any rule, any consent request, suspension voice vote, or roll call vote of any such Senate bill, and will otherwise do everything in our power to thwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts of those senators.\n\nAgain, we must stop the assault on Texans and the American people. Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.\n\nSincerely,\n\nChip Roy\n\nMember of Congress\n\nScott Perry\n\nMember of Congress\n\nDan Bishop\n\nMember of Congress\n\nAndy Biggs\n\nMember of Congress\n\nMatthew Rosendale, Sr.\n\nMember of Congress\n\nMatt Gaetz\n\nMember of Congress\n\nRalph Norman\n\nMember of Congress\n\nBob Good\n\nMember of Congress\n\nByron Donalds\n\nMember of Congress\n\nAndrew S. Clyde\n\nMember of Congress\n\nDiana Harshbarger\n\nMember of Congress\n\nBarry Moore\n\nMember of Congress\n\nYvette Herrell\n\nMember of Congress\n\nLouie Gohmert\n\nMember of Congress\n\nRandy K. Weber\n\nMember of Congress\n\nLauren Boebert\n\nMember of Congress\n\nClaudia Tenney\n\nMember of Congress\n\nMary E. Miller\n\nMember of Congress\n\nMarjorie Taylor Greene\n\nMember of Congress\n\nRonny L. 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