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Louie Gohmert is a Republican politician from Texas who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021. During his tenure, he was known for his conservative positions on various issues, including immigration, healthcare, and government spending. Gohmert was a vocal supporter of the Tea Party movement and often aligned himself with more hardline factions within the Republican Party. He was also involved in several high-profile congressional hearings and debates, particularly regarding national security and civil liberties.
I appreciate my friend yielding to me, and I appreciate my colleague, Ms. Lofgren's comments. Any law that is based on a lie has a good chance of being a problem. The lie starts with the initial FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
I appreciate the tribute of my colleague a few moments ago for law enforcement. One of the things that arose out of the evil hatred that brought about 9/11's attacks was people began to appreciate our military again and began to appreciate…
First, I want to address a bill that we voted on this afternoon, one of the three bills under the suspension of the rules, H.R. 35, to amend section 249 of title 18, United States Code, to specify lynching as a hate crime act. I was in the…
I have bad news for you, there is an effort to eliminate your wood-burning stove now.
It is an honor to be able to stand in this hallowed Hall and address some things that have occurred that are worthy of attention. Of course, there was applause in the gallery today on the passage of trying to restart the ERA. It is an…
Under the new rules of this Congress, since the rules have been changed that only allow one Special Order per week, and despite for years my having encouraged members of our conference to sign up for Special Orders, it is our chance to get…
I thank my friend, also from Texas. He has made wonderful points. For those of us who have studied history--especially in my case, spending my life studying history--you know one thing if you really understand history: Weakness is…
It has been an interesting day. I was down in the Senate earlier today. We have reciprocity with the Senate, so we can go onto the Senate floor. It is a very interesting experience, seeing a President who committed no crime, not even…
I appreciate my friend from Washington, who is a great Member of Congress and who knows exactly some of the damage that the Endangered Species Act has done. We certainly have experienced that in Texas. We did, in the House, modernize the…
I am glad we are having it before the expiration of the laws that restrict fentanyl and its analogues.
Clearly that is something we need to work on so it is easier for researchers to get it.
It is always an honor to be here in the House of Representatives and have an opportunity to speak, as so many places around the world don't have those privileges, those rights. Sometimes people ask, well, if the rights are truly endowed by…
I am grateful to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) for their work in this area. Mr. Speaker, there was a time not long ago when Steve King at the Conservative Opportunity Society had…
This is an important time. We have got people who are demanding that the Senate do what they hypocritically refused to do here in the House, and that is to have a fair investigation and have fair hearings. And, in fact, we know the…
It really is, and it is just a shame that at a time when we ought to come together because, unlike Libya, we do have an interest in protecting American lives. We do have an interest in stopping people who want to destroy America. We ought…
In criminal terms, he was certainly an accessory. He could not have been killed without President Obama's help.
There was no strategy in Libya other than to take out Qadhafi. Just like President Carter turning his back on the Shah and welcoming Ayatollah Khomeini in, when President Obama took out Qadhafi and, yes, he bombed him into oblivion. We…
Actually, President Obama had our forces, NATO forces, but they were American. They bombed his convoy as he was leaving Libya. That allowed the locals--
Well, the media helped them out. This is just an incredible time, and it is a time when free people ought to be able to come together and unite together in the cause of freedom. As Natan Sharansky pointed out, people didn't think he and…
Yes, it was, but only on one side of the aisle, and that was this side because we were okay with President Obama defending Americans and American interests. But as Bob Gates said, that did not include Libya. Now, he walked that back some…
Back to Libya momentarily, what President Obama did cost American lives, including at Benghazi. If he doesn't decide unilaterally whether NATO wanted it or not, he decided for America without any consent from Congress to go to war with…
I have an article here from January 2017, and the title from The Guardian is ``America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign.'' I remember specifically because I had been to Libya, but as our Defense Secretary…
In fact, it took me too long to get around to reading Winston Churchill's books on World War II, but he points out that when Hitler first moved into the Sudetenland, they were so disorganized that it was a disaster, that if there had been…
Consistent with the statement that was just made about Brian Fitzpatrick, I will be missing tomorrow's votes. If I were here, I would vote ``no.'' There is too much good that is being done with the PFAS, and I would vote ``no.'' But I will…
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