Representative Brian Harrison

I could be surprised, but...

Rank corruption has become so accessible in the House, it hardly goes noticed anymore.

What this motion does for folks who didn't follow, they are going to kill, I don't even know how many pages here, of conservative amendments without even allowing debate on them.

What this is doing is it's not just silencing the amendment author, this is silencing the millions of Texans that they represent and depriving them representation on the floor of the House.

The amendments that they are killing with this motion right here,

include amendments to stop taxpayer funding of DEI.

They include amendments to stop taxpayer funding of liberal gender ideology in our state agencies and our public universities.

They include amendments to stop corporate welfare and crony corporatism.

They include amendments to stop forcing Texans to fund liberal Hollywood.

And they include amendments that would force our agencies to be fiscally responsible by requiring across the board cuts.

This is outrageous.

And this is all happening.

It's not, it's bad enough that it's happening at all, but this is happening without a debate.

We should be allowed, whether you like these amendments or don't like these amendments, we should be allowed to debate them on the merits as a body.

That's what Texans deserve.

So this, this tyrannical motion effectively silences millions of people.

And, uh, I strongly urge my colleagues to join me in voting.

No, unless of course you want to continue forcing your taxpayers to fund DEI

liberal gender ideology, and all kinds of other woke leftist nonsense.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.