Louie Gohmert: “I won't take long, but I wanted to address the bills that we took up late today. First we voted on H.R. 5759. This is…”

“I won't take long, but I wanted to address the bills that we took up late today. First we voted on H.R. 5759. This is the bill exactly as it appears. We always have copies of the bill that we vote on that are out here in the Speaker's Lobby so you can grab them as you come in here and see what we are voting on. But what this did not reflect was the exceptions, the provisions that were added last night that had to be added by hand here on the floor so that as I tried to talk to my colleagues here on the floor and pointed out that our Republican leadership had added an exception, they didn't know that, and I had to show them. So, Mr. Speaker, I felt it was important to explain why a bill that I was listed as a cosponsor on ended up with my voting ``no'' on it, because it was a good bill. My friend, Ted Yoho, is a good man. He is a very dear friend. I think the world of him, and he had a good bill here. The purpose is, it says, ``to establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief.'' It was basically to make clear that the President had no authority to do what he did when he started granting amnesty-type work permits to 5 million people who were unauthorized aliens, as the law calls them. My friend Congressman Yoho's bill was entitled the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014.…”