Louie Gohmert

This is outrageous. We are not going to defend this. You need a new Attorney General.

If Republicans had rallied around Richard Nixon the way Democrats have rallied around abusers in this Administration, Nixon would have finished out his term.

Such an articulate person in Congress is appreciated by all of us, especially so clear thinking. That is exactly the kind of thinking we need in the executive branch. Mr. Speaker, we have an article just in from Carolyn May today: ``441…

I want to turn now to the issue of the Orlando shooting. There is an article from The Daily Caller from June 12, ``Did FBI Training Material Purge Cause Agency to Drop the Ball on Orlando Shooter?'' I would submit that it absolutely did…

I want to first thank my friend. I am very grateful to my friend from California, Congresswoman Speier, for having the idea and doing this. Powerful. As a former judge who heard cases like this, it is a powerful reminder of the evil or, as…

``Thank you to everyone involved in the trial for their time and attention. Thank you to girls across the nation that wrote cards to my DA to give to me, so many strangers who cared for me. ``Most importantly, thank you to the two men who…

There is an issue we have been talking about on the Republican side for quite a bit, and I think some of my Democratic friends realize how serious an issue this is because they care about our military members. The President of the United…

As you know, we have had some interesting discussions here on the floor in recent days about transgender as a topic and as individuals of interest. In having talked a couple of times with one man who had been through a sex change…

It is inspiring to hear my friend, Mr. Russell, speak such inspiring words. It is interesting that the book from which he kept quoting is the best-seller book of all time and also happens to be the most quoted book in U.S. history here in…

So the Park Service, then, has authority to make contracts with individual contractors, individual companies, to allow them to sell or provide services or goods on Park Service property.

However, in practice, ethical misconduct in the 'most transparent administration in history' has been treated with a lack of accountability.

Failure to make ethical conduct a priority, or even a baseline expectation, has fostered a culture in which serious violations have little consequence.

Does it concern you that that book was then made for sale through the Park Service, of which he is Director?

Are you aware of anyone in any supervisory capacity that has lied to the Secretary of the Interior that is still in their same position?

I thank Chairman Greg Walden and also his staff. They have been superb to work with, and it has been refreshing to see how thorough both he and his staff have been in researching this issue. I came prepared to talk about the event and…

We hope that in the future the issue of ethics will be one not so much that gets awards, but actually deals with ethical behavior and corrects it.

That is not exactly a punishment, either.

the Internal Revenue Service is the only entity of which I'm aware in the Federal Government that can ignore the Constitution as part of its job.

I want to go back and be clear for the record.

I believe that is not accurate. It was his assumption, but we found differently.

But we are always grateful when somebody with a conscience is in charge.

Has Director Jarvis affected the credibility of the ethics program at Interior, in your opinion?

Unless Park Service wants corruption in its agency, it makes no sense to then promote this man to be Superintendent of Devils Tower National Monument with full knowledge that he had acted in such an unethical manner.

Employees of the U.S. Government are bound by the highest standards of ethical conduct, and this Administration has painted itself as one that discourages unethical conduct.

It is amazing sometimes the way, in the heat of dispute, argument--sometimes any of us can have it happen to us--people don't think clearly. I have been here for nearly 11\1/2\ years in Congress. It is a tremendous honor to get to be the…