Louie Gohmert

But I would encourage you, as my time is running out, please push and insist for more than just awareness campaigns.

I mean, I have been here 6 years and I have picked up on--unlike when I was on the bench, people said what they meant, a lot of times when people say, yes, we are having meetings about it, it means this is going nowhere.

But still, we got too many employers that have never heard of it and are not driven to go there.

What plans specifically does this Administration have for pushing people to utilize E-Verify so that we can have people legally here in jobs that should be used by Americans without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin, any of…

the Clean Air Act that the EPA is supposedly acting under, but they're actually violating, stipulates that pollution control is "the primary responsibility of States and local government." While the national EPA office is supposed to set…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Well, my friend indicates it's unfair for Texas. But as former chairman of Energy, Joe Barton, notes, with about two-thirds of the refining capacity for the whole country being in Texas, what this means is regardless how anybody feels…

Lest we forget, this is the disaster that we are told would be repugnant to repeal. It started out as an act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify first-time homebuyers' credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces. We…

Gabrielle Giffords is always a bright spot in this rather dull, moody, self-absorbed body called Congress. She is easy to work with no matter on which side of the aisle we happen to be. We all find ourselves being criticized, but few of us…

Amendment Four: ``The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by…

Out of the same deference and respect for this document that we revere, I think it is important that we use the language of the Constitution itself. They are not deletions; they are amendments. And, in that respect, we go by the…

This bill that's just passed has been indicative of how things have gone here in this last 2 years. People didn't have a chance to read the bill. People didn't have a chance to make amendments to the bill. There is no question the heroes…

I think they're very helpful to Americans who believe, unfortunately, as the President does, that we have never been a Christian Nation. I won't debate whether we are or not now because we may very well not be now. But fortunately, this…

Well, down the hall we have the Senate as they have been taking up the START Treaty to help limit our defense of ourselves with a country that is not the country we're most concerned about. We seem to keep ignoring the fact that Iran…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As always, it is an honor and a privilege to address this House, especially when you know the history of this place. I would like to comment about my friend across the aisle who was talking about the 9/11 first…

Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 21, 1941, said these words--I won't read the whole thing, but he said, ``Sincere and faithful men and women are asking themselves this Christmas how can we light our trees, how can we give our gifts, how can…

There's not much time when there's 3 hours and most of that is dedicated to pushing this bill. But the fact is, following up on Social Security tax, it's reduced by 2 percent, from 6.2 percent, for 2 years, which dramatically does affect…

One of the things about this 13 months of unemployment insurance is that if people haven't found a job already, rather than pay them not to work for over a year, train them to do a different job where there are jobs. That is the more…

There was a great aunt, predeceased by her husband. They had 2,500 acres in south Texas. It had been built up over a number of generations, over 100 years. They have done exactly what you are talking about. They worked. And, by the sweat…

We have had a number of questions asked. One question that we did not just hear that was expressed as important is, is a person an impediment to the good order and discipline of the military or the military's mission? That is important. I…

I would submit the military is inconsistent with American values. It does not have freedom of speech, it does not have freedom of assembly, it does not have the freedom to express its love to those in the military the way you can out here…

Exactly. Anyway, my great aunt's husband predeceased her. When she died, she had left a will that set aside one section of land to be sold to pay off the estate tax. Unfortunately, this was 1986, and that also happened to be a time when…

And to my friend who said history will judge us poorly, I would submit, if you will look thoroughly at history -- and I'm not saying it's cause and effect -- but when militaries throughout history of the greatest nations in the world have…

It's tragic when anybody in Congress, especially a leader, a chairman, is found to have engaged in conduct inappropriate to such a degree as a Member of Congress, particularly as the chairman of the Tax Code- writing committee. I have had…

But it seems to be part of a pattern, what we have seen for the last 4 years, of the majority here in the House dividing America, playing class envy, trying to just really take--it is not Robin Hood, because Robin Hood took money back from…