Louie Gohmert

People immediately become suspicious when the Federal Government does something that makes sense like this.

I have to say it causes me concern because 99 percent has already come out, 99 percent of the land of the BLM is west of the Mississippi.

This basically puts the BLM headquarters right in the middle of the land they control.

We call on Congress to stop it.

I would say I was a little surprised--one of the testimonies mentioned that 40 percent of the BLM employees in DC would not want to move. And I would argue that if you have a BLM employee that doesn't want to live near BLM land, that is…

It is going to be struck down. It is unconstitutional.

I have been to Grand Junction, it is a lovely place. It is beautiful. But this basically puts the BLM headquarters right in the middle of the land they control.

The Chairman is above the rules.

I appreciate the attempted--or the response, the class response that each of you have had during vilification of yours and your employees' efforts to be humane and yet enforce and follow the law.

But during the last administration, we saw law enforcement being vilified over and over and over again.

I do not see your Border Patrol agents protecting the border.

It is wonderful to have a new admiral in the Texas Navy, and we welcome Congressman Hudson to that role, that honorary role, in the Texas Navy. And we are grateful to Judge Carter for his role in making that happen and to our great…

No, it is. But American citizens are comprised of every race, of every nationality, all walks of life. It is one of our strengths, people coming from so many different walks of life, countries, races. Yet when we have applied the standard…

Our Border Patrol agents are exhausted. They have worked so many hours. We had a hearing today in Judiciary on a bill adding requirement after requirement, millions and millions of dollars. They didn't give them any money in the 4.6 to do…

This is such a disturbing time for those of us who have spent our adult lives trying to see that justice is done, laws are followed, and yet here we again come after Attorney General Bob Barr and another Cabinet official, Ross. The truth…

I thank the gentleman from Florida, and I appreciate him yielding. This is something we ought to be talking about every day because it is a crisis. It makes a difference. It is helping destroy our country. And it is really tragic, though…

I met Ross Perot while I was a student at Texas A&M. He was very much involved in activities at the Memorial Student Center, and he came more than once. I owed the Army 4 years for the scholarship I was using at the time, and I got to meet…

It has been an interesting day. It is amazing we voted on a National Defense Authorization Act. That is normally a bipartisan action here in the House. It is normally quite a compromise. But this NDAA didn't end up being that way because…

I know my friend from Maryland to be a very smart person. But I also know, I was around when--and I had a 4-year Army commitment--when we went from draft to having all-volunteer. And I said back at the time, well, this means we are going…

So we just took up the humanitarian crisis that is going on at our border and passed the Senate bill, so there will be a tremendous amount of money that will be going to provide more beds, shelter, food, transportation, whatever is needed…

I have comments about my giving remarks at the end of the week, so it might be worth setting a little history of these Special Order remarks. In 2005 and 2006, my first term, I was not prone to give any remarks in Special Orders, but I…

So it is important that we know our history and we not punish people today for the sins of their predecessors in the Democratic Party.

This past week, we were privileged to have been invited by our Speaker, those of us who have been in the military, served our country in the military, to go with her to the 75th anniversary of Normandy. It was deeply moving. And to be on…

I urge the immediate scheduling of that bill for a vote here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has not been recognized for debate. ____________________

It is an interesting process we have for appropriating money. Some people are wondering why there were so many requests for a recorded vote, because normally most will go by a voice vote. We don't have to gather everybody together to vote…