Louie Gohmert: “It is an interesting time. Sometimes you think about the literary quote ``These are the times that try men's souls,''…”

“It is an interesting time. Sometimes you think about the literary quote ``These are the times that try men's souls,'' but there have been trying times before and there will be again. But our Congress continues to be urged to do things that sound like a great solution, sound like a good, compassionate thing to do, but when you get to the bottom of them, sometimes they are the most uncompassionate things we could do. For example, there are reports of sexual abuse victims who are female being deeply troubled. There are FBI statistics that indicate that perhaps 18, maybe 20, percent of women in America have been sexually assaulted. Other types of crimes on females raise the percentage even higher. There are statistics that indicate transgender may be three-tenths of 1 percent. Who knows what the right numbers are? But I think we should be far more compassionate with female sexual abuse victims that comprise such a large number in weighing whether you want to have men come walking in on women in restrooms, dressing rooms. Also, the talk has been this year that we are going to have sentencing reform because it is the compassionate thing to do. We are told that there are massive, massive numbers of people who have been incarcerated in Federal prison for simple possession cases, and we have moved on. We have evolved in this country where we don't look on those as critically. So it is time to start releasing some of those people.…”