Louie Gohmert: “It has been an interesting day and an interesting week. I was in here listening to the colloquy between Majority Leader…”

“It has been an interesting day and an interesting week. I was in here listening to the colloquy between Majority Leader McCarthy and the minority whip. I had heard my good friend, a very intelligent, clever, witty friend from Maryland, Mr. Hoyer, indicate that Republicans bring us to the brink time and time again, talking about, I guess, the debt ceiling. Sometimes it is just good to stop from the rhetoric here and the lines like ``bringing us to the brink,'' and it is really good to look at what the history of the situation is. {time} 1300 Until Newt Gingrich led with the Contract With America, Republicans recaptured the majority in the House and Senate, for the first time in 40 years, the Democrats kept bringing us to the brink. It didn't matter who was in the White House. The Democratic Congress kept bringing us to the brink, spending more and more money. We thought it was a great deal of money. They kept bringing us to the brink. It seemed so irresponsible not to be interested in trying to have a more balanced budget. There would be people like Phil Gramm, with the Gramm-Rudman law, that tried to force a balancing. In fact, I know the President will probably in weeks to come continue the mistaken rhetoric. He is such a nice guy, but he is so often mistaken or whoever puts those mistakes in his teleprompter.…”