Louie Gohmert: “I do appreciate the Speaker's new policy that says a Member of Congress can only have one Special Order in which they…”

“I do appreciate the Speaker's new policy that says a Member of Congress can only have one Special Order in which they are in charge of the time each week once a week. I have been trying to get Republicans to take our time, much in the way my colleague, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the group they call the ``30 Somethings'' did in 2005 and 2006. I have not had a great deal of success in getting a lot of people to take Special Order time. But with this new rule and some of the terrific freshmen that we have got who have come in--some of the folks who have been here a term or two--they are stepping up and taking our time to discuss critically important issues for our country. Today, I am it from our party, and I am honored to be here. We have heard a lot of talk, and the reason we say have heard a lot of talk is because there is truth in seeing a double standard at the Department of Justice for a number of years now. There was a time when it was the Department of Justice that Jeff Sessions remembered back in the 1980s during his time as U.S. attorney. That time changed with top people in the FBI and top people in the DOJ; it became no longer about justice, but just us and what we want at the DOJ and the FBI. In talking to former Justice attorneys, prosecutors, one dear friend in Texas--not in my district, but a very dear friend--we were talking about how the things that were done by people, including Rosenstein, the former U.S.…”