Louie Gohmert: “Just to follow up on what my good friend from Iowa (Mr. King) was saying, there is an article here from this week--Hans…”

“Just to follow up on what my good friend from Iowa (Mr. King) was saying, there is an article here from this week--Hans A. von Spakovsky says: ``Alabama is arguing that by including illegal immigrants in its count of the population, it deprives the State of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The key to Alabama's case is the definition of `persons' who should be counted and thus used in apportionment. This is not an issue the court has addressed before.'' That is interesting. ``Alabama has filed an unprecedented but little-noticed lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau. If the State wins, it could have major political ramifications and restore fundamental fairness in political representation in Congress.'' And I might insert parenthetically here, I heard my friend, the delegate from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) was talking about hoping to have a vote, whether it was making D.C. a State or whatnot. But in the little research that I ended up doing after I got here is I have seen the license plate, ``Taxation without representation.'' I thought: Well, you know, of course, that was something that was said during the Revolution, ``Taxation without representation is tyranny.'' Ben Franklin said, if we don't get to elect even one of the members of parliament that put taxes on us, then they should not be able to put taxes on us.…”