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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took to the House floor Monday morning to point out the irony surrounding President Obama’s push for trade deals. Gohmert challenged Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) argument that granting Obama fast-track trade authority – TPA – would actually put “Congress in the driver’s seat.” Gohmert questioned, “How ironic that President Obama seems to have worked harder on this bil... Read more »

More Republicans are coming out in opposition to Obamatrade—the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which would fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—pushing back against House leadership’s effort to ram it through the House. “Trade deals should be about creating jobs,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), an influential Alabamian who serves in a senior position on the House Appropriations Committee,... Read more »

Korean War veteran Tom Sullivan was presented with the Korean Service Medal, the UN Korea Medal and the National Defense Service Medal on Sunday at Community Christian Fellowship Church in Lindale. Family, friends and the church congregation joined the 83-year-old Lindale resident as U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert presented him with the medals during the church’s morning services. Sullivan said he didn’t... Read more »

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told two federal land officials, “I come bearing good news. I think if your employees keep up the arrogance, keep denying access to the land then very soon we’ll be able to dramatically cut your employees back and start turning those powers over to the states.” Gohmert’s comments came during a Joint Legislative Hearing "To protect and enhance opportunities for recreati... Read more »

Republicans blasted the Obama administration on Wednesday after the EPA issued new rules to protect small streams, tributaries, and wetlands from pollution and development that House Speaker John Boehner called "a raw and tyrannical power grab that will crush jobs." "The rule is being shoved down the throats of hard-working people with no input, and places landowners, small businesses, farmers, an... Read more »

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) says the Interior Department may be breaking the law as it develops the forthcoming stream protection rule. He was referring to the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement's decision not to share new documents on the regulation with cooperating states. Mining companies, states and pro-coal lawmakers, many of them skeptical of the proposal, see OSMRE's act... Read more »

The state has awarded a $75,000 grant to help teach welding to more than 100 Kilgore College students. The announcement came during the grand opening of the Kilgore Economic Development Corp. Advanced Technology Center and the Kilgore College Advanced Welding Academy. "Congratulations to this community for this incredible accomplishment," said Hope Andrade, a Texas Workforce Commission commissione... Read more »

This week on the “The Lars Larson Show,” while discussing a Florida mailman landing a gyrocopter on the U.S. Capitol lawn, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said the incident shows the Department of Homeland Security is so busy with President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty they are not capable of protecting the U.S. Capitol. Gohmert said, “It ought to scare people because Homeland Security is so o... Read more »

This was a Texas grilling. Tempers flared Tuesday on Capitol Hill when Texas firebrand Louie Gohmert grilled the Obama administration’s director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement potential fraud in the handling of more than 100,000 illegal immigration cases at the heart of a federal court battle over Obama’s executive action on immigration. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Gohmert ... Read more »

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) will attend the Fort Hood Purple Heart Ceremony Friday in Ft. Hood, Texas. Forty-five Purple Heart and Defense of Freedom medals will be awarded to soldiers who were shot by Nidal Hasan in 2009. “This week has been years late in coming; but, I am so thrilled to see that after years of complaining to the military and this administration, we will finally see the proper hono... Read more »