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On the recordFebruary 8, 2022
Madam Speaker, I have an article here about the Justice Department. It says it continues to go easy on the 2020 rioters. These are people that destroyed government buildings, destroyed places of business, yet this administration continues to not just prosecute but persecute people who just came into the Capitol wrongly that should be punished. But to have people let loose immediately after burning people, being involved in incidents where people were killed, is absolutely an outrage to judgment. Then, to put people under the control of a deputy warden at the D.C. jail who absolutely, maliciously, intentionally despises anybody that supported President Trump--and she is in charge of these people? This is so dangerous and should not be allowed. On top of that, we have the January 6th Committee. They were not interested in following the traditions and the rules of the House with regard to committees, where both parties could submit people for that committee membership. There is so much damage that is being done to this institution. It is not the collegial working--sure, we have disagreements over the years, strong disagreements, but we have never seen anything like what we are experiencing now where we could have a commission that is totally made up of people that the one party only wanted on the commission and others that the other party wanted on were eliminated. So, something has to be done.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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