Louie Gohmert: “It should be pretty straightforward. My friends on the other side of the aisle continue to push forward amendments that…”

“It should be pretty straightforward. My friends on the other side of the aisle continue to push forward amendments that seem to want to leave the appearance that the Republican Party still wants to retain some fight that it has never had. The Republican Party opposed slavery. The Republican Party and everybody that I know of in this Chamber on this side of the aisle has never supported slavery, has never supported anything that wreaks of slavery. Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, all of those early leaders in this country, had it very right--it is an abomination. It kept God from blessing this country. I am surprised that anyone would wish to reserve a point of order to try to prevent this amendment from going forward. Anything, as my friends across the aisle have repeatedly pointed out, that reminds people of slavery is repugnant and is abhorrent, and I would think that that is something that we could all agree on. If it is an organization that supported slavery, then why would we want to give that organization any more credence and cause those who may have lived through the vestiges of the civil rights problems that lasted after slavery? It is time to put this to an end and let the dream of Dr. King finally come to fruition. I reserve the balance of my time. Point of Order”