Louie Gohmert

Puerto Rico has the potential of being the Hong Kong of the United States.

Isn't it too late for it to have been considered quick and efficient?

I cannot imagine it being worse if it were privatized.

It is certainly an honor and pleasure to follow my dear friend from Iowa with whom I got to share a little time last weekend, be out in God's nature and just enjoy the best Iowa has to offer, and Steve King is one of those best things…

It is great to be able to speak on this. I am grateful to Mr. Westerman. We share a great deal of interests, and Mr. Thompson. As far as the endangered species, I remember hearing about how this little spotted owl only could mate in virgin…

It is interesting, when I am watching the news or looking at a newspaper, I can see what kind of pictures are there in the news story, and having been at press conferences where print media that is extremely slanted will come up, the…

I do greatly appreciate my friend across the aisle. Mr. Garamendi made some good points. For example, the people speak, and we are thankful they do. And that is why, when the Democratic House Members and Democratic Senate Members voted to…

It has been an interesting number of days here this week. We continue to have hearings and fight for good legislation, and we continue to hear from people back home that we simply must at least work on our promises to repeal ObamaCare and…

We had some interesting days here, but, over the weekend, being back in Texas, I am hearing the cries from people all over east Texas. There is a small number that say: Hey, I am not making much, and I am getting a subsidy from the…

I did know that rule. But this was the Treaty of Paris, 1783, and John Adams was there. But this is where we were negotiating with England, the most powerful country in the world, imploring them to recognize this little upstart country of…

When someone with the service of my friend from Louisiana, Mr. Higgins, pays tribute, you know it is somebody worthy, because my friend from Louisiana served with distinction in the United States Army, wearing the uniform of this country…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it is indeed an honor to speak on behalf of a person I have come to know and love. In fact, the First District of Texas has been blessed to be the home of many remarkable…

This has been a day that answered a lot of our prayers seeing our good friend Steve Scalise here, and it brings to mind part of the story of that tragic morning that I haven't heard told anywhere else. One of our Members, Georgia…

I have been to my friend's home, beautiful as it is in a beautiful part of the country, and I appreciate the gentleman's recognition. It sounds like it is well deserved. Regarding what has to be done about healthcare, clearly, the Senate…

It is always an honor to be here on the House floor. We passed appropriations bills. It is a rare thing to hear it coming from me, but the Appropriations Committee for the Republican majority here in the House of Representatives has…

In conclusion, I hope and literally pray that at some point we will put politics aside and, when somebody lies in front of Congress, we will join together to say: Not before Congress; there will be consequences. Mr. Chairman, I yield back…

As the designee of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Posey), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 361, line 17, after the dollar amount…

It has been a deeply troubling last 12 hours-- 24 hours, I guess. The House went about trying to repeal the--and it is just tough to say--Affordable Care Act because of the thousands of people we have heard from in my district in the last…

I appreciate Mr. Newhouse's efforts here. Hearing a concern about the $1.6 billion for the wall, let me just say, living in Texas, spending a lot of time on the border, spending time in Mexico--it is where my wife and I went on our…

I thank Mr. Arrington for his dedication to rural America. That is the heartland. I thank him for knowing that and representing his district so well.

I want to direct attention to this ongoing narrative about collusion with Russia. We still desperately need an independent counsel to investigate the Mueller-Comey-Lynch-Clinton relationships. It appears Mueller is on a tear and he is…

I want to follow up on what my friend from Florida, Congressman Ron DeSantis, was saying: Under ObamaCare--that passed without a single Republican vote--Congress was expressly put under all of the conditions of ObamaCare, and it expressly…

America's hunters and ranchers should be allowed to participate fully in endangered species conservation.

The SAVES Act is the best step towards conservation of endangered species that the U.S. Congress has taken in 40 years.

I have more than 20 letters here in support of relieving the conservation-stifling regulation of non-native endangered species.