Louie Gohmert

Unscrupulous tax preparers have been accused of preying on the most vulnerable by offering advance loans against income tax returns.

I also plan to introduce a bill that will increase the statutory maximum for aggravated identity theft but delete the mandatory minimums currently included in section 1028A(c) of title 18 of the United States Code.

While the IRS estimates that it stopped over $6.5 billion dollars in fraudulent refunds in 2010 alone, it also estimates that it still paid out approximately $5.2 billion that same year to fraudulent filers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I appreciate the comments of my friend from Texas. We do have some disagreements, but I want to go back to the issue of jobs. People are hurting. Without jobs, the unemployment has been higher than the President said it would ever get if…

That would be good for all the little children that we want to educate.

Clearly, when the Federal Government does that, it seemed to me that was a taking.

Your job is justice, Mr. Attorney General. It is justice across the board, and that is what has been so troublesome around here.

It's always an honor to speak here on the House floor, and there's been a lot of interesting attention that's been given to an issue of whether or not the Obama administration supports Israel, doesn't support Israel, is more supportive of…

Thank you. And reclaiming my time, let me just say I'm awfully glad we have a conservative person who believes in the 10th Amendment as strongly as I do and States' rights as strongly as I do, and have you on the Appropriations Committee…

It's been quite an interesting day. Apparently it's already been misinterpreted by some in the media. I hope that, though so many publications have had to cut their research budgets and cut their staffing budgets, I hope that those that…

At this time, I would like to yield 40 seconds to another cosponsor of this amendment, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

The issue here is, do you want to fix the possible problems with the Authorization for Use of Military Force back in 2001 when all of the cosponsors were not even here and possibly the NDAA? Or do you want to extend new rights that are not…

We hear repeatedly people say persons are entitled to their constitutional rights, and, yes, they are. When I was in the Army for 4 years, I was entitled to constitutional rights, but I had no right to freedom of speech. I had no right to…

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Rigell).

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 366, line 16, strike ``HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS'' and insert ``RIGHTS UNAFFECTED''. Page 366, line 17…

At this time, I reserve the balance of my time. I do have the right to close; is that correct? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington has the right to close.

At this time, I would yield 1 minute to my friend from Louisiana, also a cosponsor of this bill, Mr. Landry.

I appreciate my friend yielding. Mr. Speaker, it's such an honor to pay tribute to such a great man as Chuck Colson. I first read about Chuck Colson, of course, after the Watergate event occurred and all of the events surrounding it. And…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are really blessed here in the Capitol with some of the greatest people that work around here and touch the lives of so many. So many come from around the country to admire our great national Capitol, and the…

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the wonderful work our chair has done to work with the ranking member on this issue. It is critical that the world know how united this Congress is behind our ally Israel. It's a maxim in history, it's…

So you can't say, even if there were 50 billion barrels, that you would open that area, that that would be so persuasive that you--and you knew how many billions of dollars we were sending to people that are funding terrorism, you would…

Politics has nothing to do with our safety regime following the spill.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an article that is dated today, Monday, May 7, 2012, from the Associated Press, Congress's Intelligence Heads: Taliban Has Grown Stronger under Obama. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Mike Rogers…

It's always an honor to be able to speak here in the House of Representatives. It has been a good day because here in the House, despite what some may think, we voted overwhelmingly to leave student loan rates at the same rate they are…