Richard Hudson: “I thank Mr. Gohmert for yielding, and I thank Judge Carter for this incredible honor. The gentleman is a dear friend and…”

“I thank Mr. Gohmert for yielding, and I thank Judge Carter for this incredible honor. The gentleman is a dear friend and someone I admire very much. His love for the State of Texas is unmatched. This truly is an honor. I am proud to be a North Carolinian, but I do love the State of Texas. I would first suggest that we should all remember that seven North Carolinians, if my recollection is correct, died defending the Alamo. I also have family ties to Texas. My great uncle Joseph Wesley Humphrey was a deputy sheriff, a member of the Texas legislature, and county judge in Rains County, Texas. Another great uncle, Reverend Daniel A. McRae, was a Methodist minister in San Augustine County, Texas. I believe that might even be in Mr. Gohmert's district. And the church and the cemetery there is still named ``McRae'' after my great uncle. So I do have family ties. I do love the State. I am deeply honored to receive this commission, honorary as it may be, and I will be proud to recite the oath: I, Richard Hudson, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Texas against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, the Governor of Texas, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And I will remember the Alamo.…”