Louie Gohmert: “There is a lot going on today, a lot going on this week. I wish I could say it was all good, but we spent until 10 p.m.…”

“There is a lot going on today, a lot going on this week. I wish I could say it was all good, but we spent until 10 p.m. the night before last working on bills that would find ways to take people's guns away and, unfortunately, not give them the kind of due process that we think the Constitution affords people. During my days as, well, a prosecutor and as a felony judge, thousands of criminal cases went through my court. I don't remember anywhere a criminal defendant bought his gun at a sporting goods store, gun store, applied for a gun. That is not the way criminals work. And so I didn't see anything in our hours and hours and hours of committee hearings trying to amend bad bills with good amendments that the majority didn't allow to be passed. We thought they might be joining us on some. They said they would look at some, but, basically, defeated every amendment. Today, we met in the Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m. to take up a semi, sort of, kind of, a bit of an impeachment resolution. We had amendments that would have made a bad resolution a little better--still not good-- but we had a hard time figuring out, on the Republican side: What is this? It sounds like--in Texas, we would say we're fixing to do something. A lot of times people say, ``I am fixing to do that,'' but it means it may get put off and I may not really be serious, because if I was really serious, I would do it right now.…”