Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate my friend from Virginia more than he can ever know, and I am glad he is here. But along the lines of rights…”

“I appreciate my friend from Virginia more than he can ever know, and I am glad he is here. But along the lines of rights that we have had, and that the Constitution has assured, we are finding civil liberties still are being trampled. I have an article here by Glenn Greenwald, and it is just an excellent summary on what the title tells us: ``Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled By Exploiting `Insurrection' Fears.'' We have people in this body who are constantly referring to the insurrection on January 6. We have heard the President and others say that it was the worst attack on democracy ever. Even a person whom I don't often agree with, FBI Director Christopher Wray, even he pointed out that, gee, it is kind of tough for those of us who recall 9/11 to say January 6 was a worse attack on democracy. If you were just judging by time, I heard from Attorney General Garland and spinning the news, many, I think 2 to 300, were charged with obstructing an official session of Congress for 4 to 6 hours. But, Mr. Speaker, if you go back to June 22 of 2016, we had 26 hours of obstruction of an official session of Congress. Congress twice tried to go back into session and was prevented each time. It was about 26 hours before the efforts of so many to obstruct Congress finally were withdrawn so we could have Congress again. I didn't realize back then that this offense was out there. I knew there were many violations of House rules that went on, but then, Mr.…”