Louie Gohmert

I want to thank the Rules Committee for allowing Mr. Brooks' amendment to be in order. I want to also address these concerns about allowing people to join the military. I fought with my own leadership against a bill that would allow…

What I see as a real problem in the government is that there is an agenda that has been stated from the top: climate change, settled science.

I know it is often said by climate fearmongers that, Gee, money really dictates the kind of results.

I am on record as believing climate change to be a fact in east Texas, where I live. It happens four times a year.

Not a single one of these climate model projections was able to hit the target.

This has been an interesting week, with all the activity here on the Hill. The Prime Minister of Japan came and spoke. He did a very admirable job. There has been a lot of activity across the street at the Supreme Court. It was rather…

Some of what we are going to hear today defies logic, common sense, and even basic compassion.

At every level, a lack of accountability let a bureaucracy, or even the bully, win and our constituents, our friends, our neighbors, and our families pay with their livelihoods and their safety.

However, as we will hear today, there are also times when individuals take advantage of their position and exercise not good stewardship, but a violation of trust with the American people.

The consequences of politically driven science are far-reaching and detrimental.

This letter is submitted on behalf of the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association regarding the Subcommittee's upcoming hearing concerning the consequences of politically driven science.

It is astounding reading this testimony how many different times the right choices could have been made.

Agencies must be required to validate the science they assert to justify those decisions.

It will provide greater input from the local people who use these resources when formulating the data that sets policy, not an environmental lobby with an agenda that has no concern for those people or their continued economic well-being.

I am looking forward to having more accountability and am open to Minority suggestions for oversight where the Government has become abusive.

It should be our goal to see that checks are in place to address some of the abuses we are going to hear about today.

I would like to thank Congresswoman Dingell for her willingness to serve as Ranking Member, especially having to sit next to me.

After what I saw on October 1, 2013 of our Government keeping veterans out of their World War II Memorial, spending more money to keep them out than it took to close, I knew we had a problem.

Government by popularly elected representatives, on the one hand, and government by Federal administrators swearing by the authority of science, on the other hand, are contradictory notions.

This subcommittee is a reflection of Chairman Bishop's and my commitment to place a greater focus on oversight in the Natural Resources Committee.

This was a taxpayer-funded enterprise of corruption to run our small business out of Point Reyes.

The question of whether or not mariculture should continue in this case is essentially not a scientific question, but a social, political, and economic one.

Let me be clear, we did not fail as a business. This was not bad luck.

The subcommittee is a reflection of Chairman Bishop's and my commitment to place a greater focus on oversight in the Natural Resources Committee.

I do want to commend my friend from California (Mr. Schiff) for what he is doing. I think it is a very noble thing to do when people are killed. Whether you want to call it a genocide or not, I just appreciate very much my friend Adam…