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Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate yielding to the gentlelady to come down and call me outrageous. But what is outrageous is this process…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2007
I appreciate yielding to the gentlelady to come down and call me outrageous. But what is outrageous is this process, this process of taking something so important and rushing it in here without having the proper input and the proper information. The National Institute of Justice has got their biggest study program in its history ongoing, and we don't have the results, and yet my colleagues want to rush in and throw $330 million at a process that is unproven and untried. I just don't think that is the way to go. We have got honest people involved in the process, but the process itself here has not been honest. With that, I would reserve the balance of my time.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about rushing funding for a program without sufficient information during a House debate.

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