Louie Gohmert: “It is an honor and a pleasure to be in this somewhat hallowed Hall. The election is behind us. It is time to look ahead.…”

“It is an honor and a pleasure to be in this somewhat hallowed Hall. The election is behind us. It is time to look ahead. But as everyone who studies history knows, those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. And so we go. We continue too often to repeat the mistakes of the past, but it looks like the American people wanted a change--quite a change--and I know there are calls that we get rid of the electoral college, but when one looks at the map of the United States district-by-district within the States that voted for the different parties, candidates, one sees very clearly that you have the big cities that were voting Democrat and the 90 percent or so of the rest of the country voted Republican. It really is amazing to see just how distinctive that has become. South Texas is not highly populated, but is blue. Otherwise, most of the country that voted Democrat is just large cities, many of which are failing, many of which have become sanctuary cities, many of which have high crime rates. So I was a bit encouraged to continue to hear statements made by President-elect Trump. There is an article today--with regard to the government, that is-- from The Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard: ``$42 billion in Obama regulations are on Trump's chopping block. Nearly 50 massive and costly regulations that cost Americans and businesses 53 million more hours filing paperwork and that have already put a $42 billion hit on the U.S.…”