Louie Gohmert: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the news yesterday of the terrible explosion in West, Texas, our thoughts, hearts, prayers…”

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the news yesterday of the terrible explosion in West, Texas, our thoughts, hearts, prayers go out to those people so terribly harmed and adversely affected and to the loss of lives, just as we continue to remember those who have lost family, friends, loved ones, limbs in Boston. West, Texas, is often known for their West Fest in the fall of the year. They always advertise as having the best kolaches anywhere in the world. It's just a beautiful little town, a wonderful little town, but it is rocked and needs our prayers. That is, in fact, what the mayor of West, Tommy Muska, said: We need your prayers. There's a lot of people that got hurt. There's a lot of people, I'm sure, who will not be here tomorrow. They're still trying to dig out from under that devastating explosion that occurred there at the fertilizer plant, so we will continue to remember those people. It is also interesting and worthy of note that, in the news, we now find that we have confessions in the murders of the Assistant District Attorney in the neighboring county of where I live, over in Kaufman. The Assistant District Attorney, Mark Hasse, and the District Attorney, Mike McLelland, and his wife were killed back on March 30 of this year--the DA was. Mark was killed back on January 31.…”