Louie Gohmert: “I agree with my friend from Missouri that Congress is dysfunctional. I am told by people that were here in the late…”

“I agree with my friend from Missouri that Congress is dysfunctional. I am told by people that were here in the late seventies, eighties, nineties, that if a President started usurping power of the legislature, of the Congress, that very quietly, the leaders of the House and Senate from both parties would make a quick trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to tell the President that he either needed to stop usurping congressional authority, start living within the law, or quit being lawless, and that would have generally taken care of it, and it was a bipartisan and bicameral effort. Unfortunately, this body is dysfunctional, when you look at the efforts to protect an administration that keeps acting lawlessly. I would like to have had accurate numbers showing the percentage of section 8 housing that is being provided to people illegally; that is, providing section 8 housing to people who are not authorized, who are getting that housing against the law, mainly people illegally here, but the last official numbers that my staff and I could find go back to the January 1, 2009. Under the Bush administration, 0.4 percent of section 8 housing was going to people illegally. In other words, it was illegally going to people because they were not authorized to be here. There are indications from a report in 2010 that it increased to 1.17 percent, but, Mr.…”