Louie Gohmert

I thank my friend from Florida, who truly is my friend, for her comments. At this time, it is my privilege to yield to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Baird), my friend, a Baird man. Plight of Lakes Shafer and Freeman

I know it seems compassionate to those who support this bill to say we want to give this young child whose parents sent them up by themselves, give them a lawyer, help them out. But the consequences for those of us that have spent a lot of…

I do want to say a special word of tribute. I know our former Speaker Boehner has been in the media recently, and I have been asked about comments he has made about some of us. Speaker Boehner was an interesting Speaker. I don't know if he…

I saw one study that indicated that these masks are very helpful; that, by wearing a mask, you have two-tenths of 1 percent less chance of getting COVID. So hurray for that two-tenths of 1 percent, especially for those of us who have had…

I appreciate the gentlewoman's efforts, and I would be thrilled to join that caucus. That is absolutely meritorious, and it should be something that all of us work to support together. Yet, we get cast, as Republicans, as wanting to limit…

It brings to mind being in Iraq back in 2005. Iraq had just had its first true fair election, and people stood in line for hours and hours. In talking to a police chief, he pointed out one place where there was a very long line. We knew…

The President is allowing so many people in the country illegally without stopping the invasion and we`re being forced to educate those folks.

That would be the Obama administration, Madam Speaker, although now we have some being put up by the Biden administration.

I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I am so thrilled you are hammering this point. These are people's lives, as you were saying earlier. We just were having a hearing in a crime subcommittee, and an article was introduced that said…

It is an honor to follow my fellow former judge from Texas. We both know Jesus, and one of Jesus' comments was that if we were just lukewarm, we would be spit out of the mouth. I know my friend's heart, and he is passionate about things…

My friend was a former judge in Houston. In fact, he was the kind of judge that is the only judge in Texas that is allowed to order an exhumation of a body. We ran into that in one of my criminal trials, and we had to find a justice who…

I know that we are brothers, and we are going to be together for a long time. I am not talking about here in this Chamber. Anyway, I appreciate my friend very much. I didn't know anything about Senator Russell, but I have gotten an…

I would just like to reinforce that when these people get into the United States, their nightmare is not over. They get shipped to towns all over America. Those who wear colored arm bands now tell the drug cartel what their situation is…

The corruption is off the charts in with the cartels. If you paid attention to the 'Chapo' Guzman trial in New York, there were allegations of the bribes they were making, even to the former President of Mexico.

What would happen if we completely secured--not closed but secured our southern border?

It seems that the number-one problem that's keeping Mexico, Central America, from being some of the most vibrant economies in the world, one thing and you touched on it, the massive amount of corruption.

We have been told that 90 percent of Americans support this bill. Well, that is because 99.99 percent of Americans have not read this bill. And we are told, yet again, that this will save lives. And, yet, there is not one single mass…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. =========================== NOTE =========================== March 3, 2021, on page H1036, the following appeared: Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The online version has…

There needs to be comment about the way the schedule was totally transformed, once again. What drove this change? We were supposed to be debating the George Floyd bill tomorrow. George Floyd deserves a better bill than he got, a bipartisan…

What happened to George Floyd is atrocious, it is criminal, and the policeman will be held accountable; he has got to be. But that has nothing to do with eliminating immunity for countless policemen across the country. This bill does not…

I thank the ranking member. This bill that is supposed to be for the people, one of the things it is really supposed to do, we have been told, you know, this is going to eliminate foreign interference with our bill. They have been…

This package is a massive land-removal bill. It basically takes 2.7 million acres away from meaningful production. The one good thing I can say is, it is consistent with this majority and this administration's actions that make us more…

For years we have been hearing what we are hearing today: Look, we just want the same rights everybody else has. But we also heard for years: We just want to live and let live. I have got news for all of my friends across the aisle that…

We don`t need to completely ignore others that were in the Capitol, as my friends across the aisle seem to be wanting to do.

We don’t need to completely ignore others that were in the Capitol, as my friends across the aisle seem to be wanting to do.