GOP congressman denounces Democrats for naming a post office after a late colleague — despite doing it twice in the past 3 months

 Louise Slaughter.
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has spent the three months of his first congressional term flip-flopping on one very unimportant issue.

On Tuesday, Roy and six other Republicans voted down a bill to name a post office near Rochester, New York after the late Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter. They all gave some very apolitical excuses for the snub, but Roy's was the most blatantly hypocritical, Roll Call reports.

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Other opposers explained that they found naming post offices after anyone but veterans to be a waste of time, per Roll Call. They didn't seem to realize that authoring a whole statement to explain their protest vote was likely more time-consuming than just saying "yea."

Opposition surprisingly didn't come from Slaughter's vehement rival Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), despite The Buffalo News suggesting Slaughter actually spurred Collins' arrest on fraud charges last summer. Collins, along with two other Republicans, simply sat this vote out.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.