Louie Gohmert: “A great deal has been going on in the last 24 hours--a lot of surprises--which help make life interesting. Mr. Speaker…”

“A great deal has been going on in the last 24 hours--a lot of surprises--which help make life interesting. Mr. Speaker, I want to call to attention, again, the human tragedy that has arisen in Africa--and Nigeria specifically--as I was there at the end of last week for a couple of days meeting with some of the mothers of girls who were kidnapped. There was an excellent story in The Blaze done by Sara Carter today where she says: Precious and Hope--two girls' names--ran for their lives through the thick brush of the Nigerian forest. They could feel their hearts pounding, their bare feet scraped from the rocks, and their legs throbbing from the thorns that penetrated their skin as they crawled low through the tangle to avoid detection. {time} 1915 They were running from the armed Islamist fighters who had seized them and approximately 300 other schoolgirls from what they had believed was the safety of their boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, in one of the most brazen mass kidnappings in history. Only the night before, the two 15-year-olds had been sleeping peacefully. It was mid-April, and many of the girls had chosen to try to stay cool by sleeping underneath the night sky in only their shirts and undergarments while others left the windows of their dormitories wide open to stave off the humidity. What they didn't expect shortly after they closed their eyes was that their world would soon be turned upside down.…”