Louie Gohmert: “Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to follow my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Altmire) and before that my friend…”

“Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to follow my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Altmire) and before that my friend from Georgia (Mr. Woodall). It made a lot of sense. In fact, the last vote we took today was to eliminate the word ``lunatic'' from our Federal law. I don't have a problem with lunatic being used in the Federal law. Apparently, I was the only one here on the floor that didn't have a problem with using the term ``lunatic.'' In fact, it occurred to me that not only should we not eliminate the term lunatic at a time when we are facing national bankruptcy if we don't get serious about our issues but we should also use the term to identify those who want to continue doing business as usual around this town. It's time we got serious. One of the things that would help the administration get serious, because it is a big deal and not because CBO has no clue what it's going to cost, as illustrated by them initially scoring, I believe, $1.1 trillion, then $800 billion, and now $1.6 trillion taking effect. Maybe $1.8 trillion. They don't have a clue. They're not allowed to use real historical reality, real rules to score. They use a fictitious static rule that is just so inaccurate. It would be a joke if it weren't so sad as to what it's done to good legislation.…”