Louie Gohmert

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here today, and I certainly appreciate my friends enlightening the Chamber and those that may be prone to listening. I want to add a little bit to the enlightenment, as we've…

I would sure like to have those seniors living on more than $800 a month.

I really don't know the answer to this question. But the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know my friend from the Virgin Islands and I have differences on political issues, but she was very gracious to me personally and I will always be grateful, very grateful. Thank you. We do differ on some of the…

I absolutely do. Actually in September of 2005... I think we could pass a bill that would amend Social Security.

I think that a balanced budget amendment makes sense, I think tells you where I stand on it.

We're going into recess for a week. We passed a bill to keep the government running. Some of us were concerned that we were compromising with ourselves, but supposedly it was a bill that, though we compromised with ourselves, that the…

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's always an honor and privilege to speak in this body. There has just been so much information about the American Jobs Act that the President has touted that he demanded that we pass here in this room, and at…

We're at the end of another week of session here. You know, the President's been traveling around the country. I know that costs millions and millions of dollars to put Air Force One in motion, hopping all over the country. I've also seen…

It never ceases to be an honor for me to be able to speak on this floor. The freedoms we have, the blessings, we've received because of those who've gone before us. The country is in trouble. People around the world cannot believe that the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, because I saw my friends across the aisle using a chart that said the ``American Jobs Act.'' It makes a wonderful chart if it's still on the floor, because that's what we're talking about, an American Jobs Act. The…

I just wanted to make sure the record was clear. My dear friend from Maryland said there were those on this side who wanted to welsh on our debt, and that's not the case. The thing that we want to do is stop incurring debt. We are all…

But if you want the numbers, if we are only able to save a trillion dollars over 10 years, which is quite possible under the debt ceiling deal that passed, then it will take 150 years before the budget balances if we continue to cut 1…

I know of the intentions of my colleagues across the aisle. You want to try to make America a better place. We had the prior speaker indicate that tremors were sent through the financial markets because some politicians, for their own…

If I might inquire of the Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry: If there are charts around on the floor, can anybody use those? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is free to use charts in debate.

This is a tough time in our American history. I was a history major at Texas A&M. I knew I owed the Army 4 years for the scholarship I had. I had been really inspired by American history in high school by Sam Parker, my teacher, my…

As always, it is an honor to speak on this floor where so much history has been made, where, after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt stood here in this Hall and announced that was a day that would live in infamy. There have been…

It's been quite an eventful day here on the House floor, a lot of scurrying, a lot of things going on in committee rooms, different meeting rooms around the Capitol today. And actually, last night, when I finished talking and meeting with…

There's no question this Congress for many years has had a problem with spending. The Democratic Congress developed a bigger and bigger appetite for spending for 40 years, as it held the majority for years and years. Then Republicans took…

Politically we're told, gee, this is the political thing to do. You've got to do the political thing. You -- if you don't vote for the Boehner bill you're voting for Obama. That's not true.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are a lot of things going on right now. One of them should be the business of the country. This body this week passed what many have said was truly historic. A truly historic bill passed the House of…

There is money. You go day-to-day. You look at the assets that are available. There's money to pay those things.

It is always an honor and a privilege to be here speaking on the House floor. It is interesting these days being a part of Congress. The media is given unfettered access to so much because we believe that people should be entitled to the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Engel

We have had a couple of amendments we've already voted on. In reviewing whether or not to withdraw my amendment, my concern comes on the review of Mr. Cole of Oklahoma, my dear friend, and the amendment that passed that he provided. His…