Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on the ‘Jade Helm 15’ exercises scheduled to take place in Texas and various other states: “Over the past few weeks, my office has been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015. This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law. Certainly, I can understand these concerns. When leaders within the c...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the cold-blooded terrorist attack in Garland, Texas: “Yesterday, Islamic extremists opened fire on a free speech event in Garland, Texas. In the exchange of gunfire, one security officer was injured; however, the swift actions of local law enforcement stopped these cold blooded terrorists before they could carry out their full premeditated attack on the innocent. It is evident that our right to free speech has, yet again, been...
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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 commissioner. "You have built a resource for this community that will answer the workforce demands for your cur...
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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 overwhelmed in trying to bring on and ship around illegal aliens and give amnesty to as many people a...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke today on H.R. 1105 – Death Tax Repeal Act. Below are the comments he made on the House floor: “Several years ago, there was an author who wrote a book about millionaires in America – and it was amazing. Most of the millionaires built a business, built a farm and the number one most commonly driven vehicle by millionaires in America was a Ford F-150 truck. They were workers. There was a time in America, where we looked around and we saw somebody work 16 hours a da...
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Today, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on his ‘No Taxation Without Representation Act’ - which would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to insure that there is no taxation without representation and to make tax law regarding residents of the District of Columbia consistent with tax law affecting of territories of the United States that also do not have a voting member of the US House of Representatives: “The license plate motto, ‘taxation without representation’ ...
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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 pressed ICE Director Sarah Saldena over the origins of a Justice Department “guidance” in November t...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) issued the following statement regarding a letter sent to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 22 Members of Congress demanding a comprehensive audit on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS): “There have been enough revelations about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its failures that many Americans have become gravely concerned with their actions and performance causing many to lose faith in its representations. It is cr...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the ceremony which will take place Friday in Ft. Hood, Texas where 45 Purple Heart and Defense of Freedom medals will be presented to soldiers and others who were shot by former Army psychiatrist 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 honor and medical support provided for...
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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 honor and medical support provided for the 32 who were injured and proper military honor for the thirtee...
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