Louie Gohmert: “Well, I appreciate very much my friend from Iowa for sharing this Special Order. And I appreciate the things that you…”

“Well, I appreciate very much my friend from Iowa for sharing this Special Order. And I appreciate the things that you have been pointing out. Of course, as you talk about Texas history, you are talking about my State. It is where I was born, reared, grew up. Except for my 4 years in the service and the summer I spent in the Soviet Union on an exchange program, it has been home. And when you talk about Nacogdoches and San Augustine, right in that area where the first settlement in Texas occurred, that is my district. That is my home. That is my district. So it is interesting. And I love history. I was a history major in college. And one of the things we were taught in elementary school, one of the things we were taught in junior high; high school; and college; Texas A&M, where I attended, we got the same thing all the way through schooling: What two words in common language are the basis for America's strength? ``Melting pot.'' We are a melting pot. People came from all over the world to America. They assimilated. They came together through heat and difficulties and problems of the day. And the heat that tests people and makes them pure and stronger, that heat brought us together and melted us together into one Nation under God, indivisible, and, yes, there was liberty and eventually justice for all. But I thought about it as you mentioned earlier, Mr. King, the discussion about immigration. Immigration has been a lifeblood to this country, and that does not need to stop.…”