Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding his decision to vote against a bill to provide loan guarantees to the Ukraine:
“Having been a college summer exchange student to Ukraine, my sympathy for the Ukrainians may not be exceeded by anyone in Congress. Ukrainians are under assault by ruthless Russian leaders who still romanticize the mass suffering and killings under the former Soviet Union’s heavy boot.
However, I have serious reservations over a rushed bill to assure loans to people in Ukraine when we cannot be sure who will administer or actually even receive the money we are guaranteeing to assure it goes where it is needed. Our U.S. bureaucracy is not even good at doing that in the United States.
A knee-jerk toss of money to a country being choked by the designs of a coldblooded Russian leader is not the first thing we should do to help. Throwing money at a victim being assaulted by a thug is not the most helpful nor the most courageous thing one friend can do for another.”
Congressman Louie Gohmert is the Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Louie was elected to three terms as District Judge in Smith County, Texas and also served as Chief Justice of Texas'12th Court of Appeals.
