Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on the announcement that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would be stepping down from his position: “For many years now, I have been calling for Attorney General Holder’s resignation. Not only has he lied before Members of Congress and, ultimately, been held in contempt, he has obfuscated the truth and been the most partisan, partial, prejudiced and self-pitying Attorney General in my lifetime, including John Mitchell who went to jail ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) said that it is “truly unsettling” and “utterly appalling” that President Obama went before the United Nations on Wednesday and praised a controversial Muslim cleric who endorsed a fatwa encouraging the murder of U.S. troops in Iraq. Obama came under scrutiny yesterday after the Washington Free Beacon reported on his commendation of controversial cleric Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, who the president referred to as a moderate Muslim capable of helping to combat the I...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding his bill, the ‘‘EDIBLE Act” which is an acronym for the longer name of the bill, the ‘Eliminate Dogmatic Interference by Bureaucratic Lunch Extremists Act', which would prevent the federal government from making any food mandates or requirements for schools that are not completely paid for with federal funds: "The best thing the federal government could do, regarding the federal food mandates for students, is completely drop t...
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert took to the House floor on Tuesday, and gave a riveting speech against arming the Syrian rebels. "The truth is, under this president, we trained people in Libya, we provided weapons in Libya that were then used against us in Benghazi," the Congressman said. There are Americans dead because this administration felt compelled to go in and take out Gaddafi." px;">He continued, "One of the big problems is too…when we go in and train, as this presiden...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on his decision to vote against an amendment that would authorize the training and equipping of ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels: "The House voted today to back President Obama’s deeply flawed mission to arm Syrian rebels – purportedly to stop the Islamic State. I voted against this effort because the Syrian rebels this President wants to continue arming and training has strong ties to the very group that we are supposedly fighting. Though Pres...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Benghazi will not be old news until the outstanding questions are answered, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). “Now some are tempted to ask, ‘What difference at this point does it make,’” Gohmert said Wednesday at a press conference marking the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on the American facilities in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. “And the answer should come swift and clear anyt...
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President Barack Obama’s promise to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants following the midterm elections is “lawless” and a power-grab comparable to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intrusion into Ukraine, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said Tuesday. “As I listen to my colleagues talk about the president intruding into Article 1 section 8 — the powers that are given under the Constitution, to the legislature, to the Congress — and taking those, it occurs to me that this president is to ou...
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About 100 city officials from across 22 counties converged Wednesday on Longview for a two-way dialogue with a state representative and their U.S. congressman. “Kasha, you’re doing it,” U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler told Longview City Councilwoman Kasha Williams, who had asked what local officials can do to draw national support home to convert fleets to compressed natural gas. “You have just given me ammunition to take back (to Washington),” the Republican said, responding to the Democratic ...
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently penned a letter that confirmed what Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby reported back in July--the agency was allowing illegal immigrants to board planes using only Notice to Appear forms that they received after entering the U.S. illegally. The revelation directly contradicts the TSA's previous allegations that Darby's report was "completely wrong." Reacting to the TSA's letter, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert told Breitbart ...
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HOUSTON, Texas -- On Thursday Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert responded to the video allegedly showing the decapitation of American journalist James Foley. Gohmert said the footage gave Americans a "glimpse of the brutality of radical Islam." "These evil people and their despicable, inhuman atrocities cry out for countries desiring peace to eliminate them from the living," Gohmert said in a statement provided to Breitbart Texas. "My thoughts and prayers have gone out to Mr. Foley’s family and fr...
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