A congressional committee will investigate reports that the Environmental Protection Agency wasted billions of dollars, including an effort to create its own militia with a prosecution arm to mirror the FBI’s. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Watchdog.org that a House committee will dig into allegations the EPA bought designer furniture and sporting goods equipment, and handed out hefty employee bonuses and grants to foreign countries – including China. The charges are outlined in a recent report...
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Lawmakers have requested that a bust of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, be removed from the National Portrait Gallery. Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Louie Gohmert, both Texas Republicans, sent a letter to Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, demanding the bust’s removal. Twenty-four House Republicans also signed the letter. In a joint statement, Cruz and Gohmert called for “the immediate removal” of the bust from the exhibit. “There is no ambiguity in what Marg...
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Last week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), along with 24 House Republicans, sent a letter to the Director of the National Portrait Gallery Kim Sajet, calling for the immediate removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The bust is on display in the Gallery’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit. Sanger, a founder of Planned Parenthood, believed in using contraceptives to control the population of minorities, or people she de...
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Momentarily, let’s talk principles instead of specific people. Throughout Congressional history, there appear to be ongoing periods of greater and greater centralization of power in the Speaker of the House. Eventually, it becomes too destructive and someone or some people step up to decentralize the power. There is an absolutely amazing array of talent and intelligence in Congress, but somehow, far too many on both sides of the aisle get to DC they hand over their deductive reasoning function ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) will be awarded with the Heritage Sentinel Award Saturday, October 3rd in Tyler, Texas. "Congressman Gohmert has been relentless in fighting for conservative values for Texans. He has faithfully voted to rein in federal overspending, has rigorously pushed to advance federalism, and consistently opposed the faulty policies of the executive administration,” said Joseph Miller, Southwest Regional Coordinator for Heritage Action. “Gohmert has been leading on issue after is...
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The United States of America is at an incredibly perilous time in our history. We have seen our rights endowed by our Creator and protected by the Constitution being eroded and taken away. It is clear that we need bold leadership more than ever. Speaker John Boehner, by stepping down, is graciously giving us that opportunity. An opportunity of this magnitude should not be squandered on an ‘heir apparent,’ or continuing to “go along to get along.” The biggest problem with Congressional elections ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement today after Speaker John Boehner announced his resignation from the position of Speaker of the House and his plans to step down from the United States Congress at the end of October: “America is at an incredibly perilous time in our history; we need bold leadership more than ever, and the Speaker now has graciously given us that opportunity.” “Due in part to the massive shift in power away from the most accountable representatives of th...
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The Obama administration is declining to inform Congress about the number of American citizens and troops killed by Iran and its terror proxies, according to a document provided to Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The administration was repeatedly asked by Congress to release figures describing how many Americans and Israelis have been killed by Iran’s military and terror activities since the country’s 1979 revolution. In a series of on-the-record responses obtained exclusive...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement today regarding the vote passed in the U.S. House of Representatives which will ultimately make sure that when women’s health care is funded, Planned Parenthood is not, while at the same time reinforcing safeguards on the lives of born-alive abortion survivors: “After watching some of the horrific undercover videos of Planned Parenthood employees laughing and haggling over the prices of precious parts of priceless babies, I was both inf...
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WASHINGTON–Six House members from Texas and a scattering of colleagues from 12 other states have co-sponsored articles of impeachment against EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The resolution accuses McCarthy of perjury and making false statements before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. McCarthy has presided over the EPA during a period of aggressive expansion of its work imposing limits on pollutants in the air and water, including carbon emissions linked to climate change. T...
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