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Louie Gohmert is a Republican politician from Texas who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021. During his tenure, he was known for his conservative positions on various issues, including immigration, healthcare, and government spending. Gohmert was a vocal supporter of the Tea Party movement and often aligned himself with more hardline factions within the Republican Party. He was also involved in several high-profile congressional hearings and debates, particularly regarding national security and civil liberties.
I thank my friend very much. We have been friends a long time and brothers in Christ during all of that time. It is important to give proper recognition where that recognition is due and, actually, the words of John Adams, our first Vice…
It is important, I think, to note, so you get a sense of what the gray wolves have done, that 1987 was when a plan was finalized to restore them to the Northern Rockies by transplanting the wolves from Canada into central Idaho…
We are living in interesting times. As Dickens said, it is the best of times and the worst of times. There has never been a country in the history of the world with the amount of opportunity and freedom for individuals that has been found…
I appreciated so much hearing the fantastic presentation about George Washington. It was interesting in the last several months to hear a presentation by a biographer of Benjamin Franklin over at the Library of Congress. He was asked: Do…
Our thoughts and prayers will continue for the folks who are in harm's way with the hurricane coming ashore. I am grateful for all of those who are serving, State, Federal, and local officials, trying to keep people safe. They will…
I thank my friend and colleague, Congresswoman Mimi Walters, for her special order. It is a reminder again that Vietnam has not lived up to the agreement they made in Paris to end the Vietnam war. They promised they would turn over…
The problem was that it was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia.
I thank my friend for bringing this amendment. It is an important amendment to people that matter very much. John Dingell is a man of integrity. I feel I know his heart. He has a huge heart, and we disagreed on many issues, but I know him…
It is always an honor to be here. It is an honor to speak in this historic room where Franklin D. Roosevelt stood right there, though back then it was a white marble podium at which he stood, and asked for a declaration of war after Pearl…
It has been an interesting day here on Capitol Hill. Madam Speaker, the hearing was still going on when I was just in the Cloakroom, where we had an FBI agent, one of the top supervisors, he had been in charge of foreign…
There was an interesting story in Politico this week titled: ``The Secret Story of How America Lost the Drug War With the Taliban.'' It was written by Josh Meyer. It says: ``As Afghanistan edged ever closer to becoming a narco-state five…
I thank my friend for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, the very things that my colleagues across the aisle are arguing could have been argued back in Watergate days and they would have kept Richard Nixon in office. Some of us on this…
It has been an interesting week. We were told when we were starting the week that we were going to be taking up a couple of immigration bills. Before we could even get that started, we were met with a firestorm of absolute outrage about…
I am grateful to my Republican friends for pointing out the advantages of natural gas. I might add that we had, in the last Congress, a hearing about what was the world's largest solar plant. This wasn't a plant that had solar panels. It…
It is great to hear my friend Congressman Lewis. He does a great job explaining such matters. We had an interesting combined hearing today in the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. We heard from the…
It is important to know who the investigators are and the people you're relying on.
Well, let me tell you, I know my friend Mr. Nadler had referenced, said, oh, you know, a big organization like that, probably just as many people supported Trump.
97 percent of the people in the DOJ that donated, don't to Democrats, 97 percent.
Just to follow up on what my good friend from Iowa (Mr. King) was saying, there is an article here from this week--Hans A. von Spakovsky says: ``Alabama is arguing that by including illegal immigrants in its count of the population, it…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
The amendment prohibits the use of funds to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or guidance related to the social cost of carbon. Social cost of carbon metric was a tool, and is a tool, used to bolster many Obama-era…
I really have such great respect for my friend across the aisle, and I do truly mean that. But when I hear talk about what Republicans did to our Nation's poor and our seniors, I keep coming back to the ObamaCare vote, without a single one…
So we hear today from the Mueller investigation, as he was appointed by a man named Rosenstein that we now know was completely disqualified from being able to select or name a special counsel for a number of reasons. For one thing, he…
I want to thank my friend, Dr. Burgess, for all the hours of work. It is not just a lot of fun up there on the Rules Committee, but I appreciate the work on behalf of our Conference. Mr. Speaker, it has been a tragic number of days…
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