Louie Gohmert

As a follow-up to my dear friend, Frank Wolf from Virginia and the discussions he was having, this needs further emphasis. Here is an article from the Dallas Morning News dated 10 November 2013, ``The Triple Tragedy of Christian…

Well, we got a notice: All House Member briefing: Iran, Wednesday, December 4, 9 a.m. The briefing team, right at the top of the list, Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of Political Affairs. So that was thrilling. I recognize that…

What is alarming about the situation is that even that power is being challenged and being marginalized.

What gives the President the authority to order bombing, even if he promises to limit the numbers of people that he will kill?

I thank the gentleman from Florida. What a profound novel idea: if you take the oath, you should keep it. And that doesn't even mean if you like it. It is just, if you take the oath, you should keep it. As my friend, Mr. DeSantis was…

First of all, it is my honor to yield to a good friend whom I have tremendous respect for, from the State of Florida, my friend, Ron DeSantis. Mr. DeSANTIS. I thank the gentleman from Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am struck by having been here to…

I am very grateful to my dear friend, Bill Flores, and to Doc Hastings, chairman of our committee. I appreciate Mr. Cuellar's comments. The truth is, we have been working on this for a long time, and Mr. Flores has gotten it here. This is…

I thank my dear fellow alumnus of Texas A&M. We do go way back, knowing each other from undergraduate days. I want to follow up, and I am very grateful for my friend from Texas (Mr. Flores) taking charge of this hour, setting it up to talk…

I won't take long. I got this email from a constituent that, on Tuesday of last week, my 89-year old mother-in-law fell and broke her hip. Her doctor gave her only a 50 percent chance of survival, but survive she did. He, the doctor…

I thank my friend from Missouri for yielding and for setting up this time that we could share about what is going on. Just in contrast to my friend from Louisiana's examples of the abuses of military members' First Amendment rights, the…

One thing becomes very clear from our study of history, and that is that things that nations do have consequences. Things we do individually have consequences, and things we do as a Nation have consequences. That is why some people…

This has been an interesting week for a number of reasons. I would like to call to attention a letter that was written by Chairman Darrell Issa, my friend from California, to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the U.S. Department of Health and…

We are the freest Nation in history because the Founders did not trust government.

I look in your eyes and my heart breaks for what you have been through.

Overcriminalization is an issue of liberty.

To follow on my dear friend Mr. Franks from Arizona's discussion about the so-called Affordable Care Act, I continue to hear from people who have lost their insurance, had insurance go up significant amounts, it is not affordable. Now, I…

Only a Congress that has authorized the spending of over 150 percent more than it brings in would have the nerve to tell State governments that balance their budget every year that the State does not know how to properly govern their…

Hopefully when I am here again for a hearing, we can fervently work toward eliminating or correcting the thousands of federal laws that have sometimes put people behind bars for things that most Americans have no clue would be against the…

So, Senators, I humbly implore you, let us leave State criminal law to the consideration of the State legislatures.

The person was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground.

States have the right to have their own penal codes, to enact their own laws of self-defense.

As the ObamaCare debacle continues to unfold, there is more and more that is absolutely staggering that is now coming out. People in America need to understand who shut the government down September 30, October 1. The House of…

I want to emphasize the point being made by my friend, Mr. Franks from Arizona, about the origination clause. I have been talking about this for 3\1/2\ years of when the Senate took a House bill that provided a tax credit for first-time…

These barricades and closures were obviously done to try to make the shutdown as unpopular as possible, as inconvenient as possible, and not because it was actually necessary.

It is a Constitution that prohibits activities by the government, not gives them--give them rights.