Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate my friend from Georgia, Rob Woodall, so much. What clarity. We lost a good man when John Linder didn't run…”

“I appreciate my friend from Georgia, Rob Woodall, so much. What clarity. We lost a good man when John Linder didn't run again, and we gained a good man when Rob Woodall ran for that seat. So it is a good day. Well, there is a matter of concern. Let me just say this: We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. Now, there are some people these days that say it is not appropriate to mention God, that that has no place in government. Yet the very God that I speak of and those very words that I spoke are not from me; they are from 152 years ago. Abraham Lincoln didn't just say those words. He made that his Presidential proclamation. On March 30, 1863, he called for the Nation to have a national day--and these are his words--of ``humiliation, fasting, and prayer.'' So he made that official proclamation.…”