Louie Gohmert: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the opinions of our friends across the aisle and those who have spoken here…”

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the opinions of our friends across the aisle and those who have spoken here tonight, and I know we both have similar goals--get people back to work. But when I hear my colleague across the aisle say Republicans keep proposing plans that have proved failures, the truth is the failures that the Republicans have supported were the things that our Democratic friends were in favor of. I sure like President George W. Bush, but in January of 2008, he took a page right out of the Democrats' playbook--proposed a $160 billion stimulus, $40 billion of which went as rebates to people that didn't pay any income tax. So you had people getting rebates that didn't put any ``bate'' in. That money really didn't do any good. And then we come around and end up in late September or early October of 2008, having unfortunately the Treasury Secretary appointed by a Republican, pull a page out of the Democratic playbook and help the folks on Wall Street that contribute and vote 4-1 for Democrats over Republicans. Bailed them out. {time} 2100 Some of us made clear you don't abandon free market principles to try to save the free market. If you have to abandon free market principles to save the free market, it's not worth saving. The trouble is we've gotten away from free market principles and that's why we were in trouble. We had friends across the aisle that were demanding that loans be made to people that couldn't afford the loans.…”