louie gohmert is talking. selling us, that's exactly what they're selling us and the founding fathers would be disgusted by that. >> oh, my god i could never eat another reese's peanut buttercup again. would zwries be happy with a lot of positions like cutting food stamps and disregarding the poor and beat up on twhoes are vulnerable? >> personally i don't think so. i think jesus was a more inclusive fellow and think that's absolutely clear but i also think my interpretation of scripture in the unlikely event, john, that anyone would elect me to office, i wouldn't be trying to quote my version of scripture back to somebody else either. we have commonly shared values there. they're the values of the sconce tugs. yesterday's religious freedom, do we have it or don't with, that's a good idea. said we have a dizzying level of it. when it comes to tim possession of religion on other people who suffer because of it, things like denying women contraceptive coverage even under some interpretations by courts of the aff

gohmert of texas. page 7, line 2, after the dollar amount insert the following. increase by $41,492,000. page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following, reduced by $41,492,000. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 628, the gentleman from texas and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. chairman. right now as i speak there are thousands of unaccompanied minors, many of them 15, 16, 17 years of age, but nonetheless classified as minors under 18 and our border patrol is being overwhelmed. our i.c.e. agents, who are supposed to deport people improperly here, are being overwhelmed. as one i.c.e. agent said yesterday, chris crane, that is the union president for the i.c.e. agents, he said basically, we are having to change diapers and so there's no criminal interdiction going on. we're not able to do our jobs because of the thousands of children that are coming. saw a report today from c.b.p., the border pat

congressman gohmert isn't trying to be serious, is he? no.dence about how unseriously he takes his job and for that matter other people's jobs, look no further than his favorite past time, photo bombing. in some cases video bombing. >> obviously those are all races we'll be watching here as we move forward. what do you make of this latest wrifrpgle in the e-mail that surfaced from lois lerner? >> it is clear the u.s. congress and american taxpayer would be better off if louie gohmert would stick to appearing in photos with congressman instead of pretending to actually be one. "the ed show" is up next. >> welcome to the ed show, live from minnesota. i'm ready to go. let's get to work. >> we're going to have a series of spiritual accounts that will be set up around the pipeline. >> protect our lands and water and way of life. >> i was never contacted by any tribal leaders. we need to keep the bad men and evilness of this pipeline coming through our land. >> we have to find a way to market. >> best used car salesman you'll ever find. >> we've go

this is a louis gohmert special.utting something out there that is so far out there that is headline grabbing. he's really not to the middle of the party. he's not where main stream america is. it actual israeli going to be interesting as we move forward and we get closer to the elections. people don't love politicians to come in and say, i will never work across the aisle. i will only vilify the opposite party. as we get closer to elections, they want to hear politicians saying, yes, i can come together in a reasonable way. i can work across the aisle. i can pass laws. people are going to start to get really sick of just hearing congress spent all of their time on an investigation that really went nowhere. so i actually think we will start to see some of the language change as we -- >> just really quickly, i think that getting these e-mails, i think you should want to have us get them 'cause then it can stop all this arguing. it's an interesting problem when you also don't want the evidence to be retrieved. the bott

i may have to do that. >> thank you, louie gohmert from texas.good weekend. >>> you did a good job. i could not tell you were behind me. that is what made it so official. >> i knew it would be hard to pull that off because nothing happens on the set hat bill doesn't see. you saw me creeping around the back. leave it to the marines. a jet pilot realizes he has a big problem shortly after take off. the nose wheel isn't coming down but he is flying a harrier jump jet. it looks like the put a foot stool down and the pilot eased it down. cannot see the stool. but the simple invention saved the day. there is a new book about aircraft carriers and living on them and how often they come through and don't catch the wire. >> the plane is $35 million and the stool is $20 bucks at home depot. kine of like stuff we have around here. >>> hilary clinton facing a backlash after making remarks about her own personal health. supposed to be a strong woman but on the other hand you have the sense she sees herself as the poor victim and this comes out when she talks

gohmert, for yielding. and especially for your trip there and your concern which has been throughout your entire year for human rights in general. but also for religious freedom. this is a serious assault on religious freedom. forced islamization. again those muslims who do not agree with the extremism are also targeted, but christians by and large. yesterday's hearing it was said that of the 60 churches that have been destroyed, three mosques have been destroyed during that same time period. this is an attack on the christian faith and it is a slaughter of christians. i want to thank you for your leadership. mr. gohmert: my friend brings up an interesting point. when i was there last week, a couple of the christian pastors from nigeria that were working with the victims, one of them pointed out to me that one of his groomsmen, he's a christian pastor, one ever his groomsmen was a muslim. and they are still very, very close friends. another who is a woman, nigerian woman, done extraordinary work in trying t

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. we have been going through appropriation bills today, transportation, housing and urban development. we have had an open rule process where anybody that wanted to bring any amendments could do so. i was a little surprised that my amendment did not pass at 160 votes today. this is a very simple amendment. we took the last official number e could find from an executive branch, from january of 2009 before president obama was sworn there t indicated that as less than 1% of those getting section 8 public housing given to them. and so we took the amount of money clear back from 2009, even though there are indications that it is many times that now, we just took that conservative amount. trying to be conservative and trying to be more than fair, which it was and say ok, we have to send a message to the housing and urban development folks, you just can't keep giving housing away. the mainstream media doesn't talk about it when there is a democratic president but bring it back up when a republ

gohmert of texas. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 130 and the nays are 292 and the amendment fails to pass. unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 4, printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed in a voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. b

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to express my appreciation to the appropriations committee for the appropriations process. i think we're all better when we have open amendments. and have a chance to have everybody have input. it's a nasty process but it is a good way to do it. because input is important. because when you don't listen o proper input, you can end up the a judgment as did pell tear case where a juvenile court judge in massachusetts her way custody from a victory finally judge ay as the court, joseph johnsonton, wrote in his ruling, that effective wednesday, june 18, 2014, care and protection petition is dismissed in custody of justina is returned to her parents, lou and linda. but the first statement there is, quote, i find that the parties have shown credible evidence that circumstances have changed since the adjudication on december 20, 2013, that justina is a child this need of care and protection -- is a child in need of care and protection. and clearly the only thing that had changed was no

texas congressman louie gohmert saying they have to be out there somewhere. to people he suspects she was e-mailing as part of the conservative group targeting scandal. the agency has denied there is any cover-up or wrongdoing in this. the irs commissioner saying that its i.t. department did all it could to try and restore mrs. lerner's compromised hard drive. >> ms. lerner was advised, quote, unfortunately the news is not good. the sectors on the hard drive were bad, which made your data unrecoverable. i am very sorry. everybody involved tried their best. unquote. >> lerner's attorney, william taylor, told politico, quote, she doesn't know what happened. it's a little brazen to think she did this on purpose. but the reward still stands. >> if you help to hide evidence in what will end up being a criminal case, guess what? you're part of the crime. so take your pick. a million bucks to come up with all the e-mails? or go to prison as part of the crime. your choice. >> the irs says it is still compiling more e-mails on top of the 500,000 pages of documents its

gohmert: i move that we do now hereby adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjour >> eric cantor announced today that he would be resigning his leadership post at the end of july. the congressman talk to reporters about his decision to step down. this is 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. first of all, i just want to talk a little bit about what happened last night and then going forward. you know, growing up in the jewish faith, i grew up, went to hebrew school, read a lot in the old testament and you learn a lot about individual setbacks. but you also read and you learned that each setback is an opportunity and that there's always optimism for the future. and while i may have had a -- suffered a personal setback last night, i couldn't be more optimistic about the future of this country. i'm honored that i've had the privilege to serve and represent the people of virginia's seventh di

just last week, gohmert made an appearance in a picture of kevin mccarthy and ralph reid.le spiling. >>> everybody enjoys some ice cream in the summer, including the president in minneapolis on thursday, president obama stopped at a local ice cream parlor where he told the workers, quote, my first job was scooping ice cream. one of you might be president. >>> hillary clinton's new book "hard choices" will not be sold in china. according to buzzfeed, distributors effectively banned the sale. the memoir is critical of the chinese government. bill clinton also had trouble publishing his 2004 memoirs there. >>> tomorrow, house minority leader nancy pelosi will be heading to south texas. there, she'll be briefed by border protection on the children entering the country. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> so, it's friday, we're all excited about that. we know what it means, it means kevin is here reporter for the hill. good morning. happy friday. >> happy friday. betty, how are you? >> i'm doing great. i'm not sure about hillary clinton's become sales in ch

gohmert: i move that we do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow for morning hour debate. whip team. he got in late. he took the weekend to get into his campaign. he has tapped into a conservative insurgency. ,he feeling among members particularly the younger members , who feel like they're -- their voices have not been heard. that is what he prominent -- promised to represent. he promised to try to make members important. late.ms too little, too >> have outside groups weighed in on the selection? -- this election? >> they don't play much of a factor. this is internal. a secret out election. the votes will not be publicized. members'shisper in years. i have not heard they are playing too much of an influence. says the whipe race is still a top us best tossup. -- the headline says the whip race is still a tossup. tell us a bit about tho

unity, can he say what more he believes can be done to encourage more inclusive and representative gohmert which is essential to the future of iraq? >> first of all the leader of the opposition is right that one of the crucial things that needs to happen is for the iraqi government to take a more inclusive approach towards shia, sunni and kurd as important constituent parts of a right but i can tell the house the latest reports indicate fighting is continuing on a front from -- the oil refinery is currently under attack by isil. they are fighting isil. there is this large-scale recruitment not only of shia militias but also of the young recruits to the iraqi armed forces and it is vital that proceeds and that isil is pushed back by the iraqis. but the key thing to recognize here is when you get this combination of poor governance can of ungoverned bases and support for extremism, that provides an opportunity for the terrorists and went to address this on each of those three fronts. supporting the iraqi government for the work they need to do. >> mr. speaker, i agree, this crisis though it'

better off if louie gohmert would stick to appearing in photos with congressman instead of pretending to actually be one. "the ed show" is up next. >> welcome to the ed show, live from minnesota. i'm ready to go. let's get to work. >> we're going to have a series of spiritual accounts that will be set up around the pipeline. >> protect our lands and water and way of life. >> i was never contacted by any tribal leaders. we need to keep the bad men and evilness of this pipeline coming through our land. >> we have to find a way to market. >> best used car salesman you'll ever find. >> we've got access to this gold, gold underground and we're kind of poo pooing. >> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching, i have always been a believer in this business when you're on a story there's always new developments, you have to stay on it. if it's big and it's impactful and this one is. we have covered keystone now for several months and this weekend will mark a small victory for landowners in south dakota and those who oppose the pipeline. on sunday the permit needed to build the key

discrete included things like the principles of liberty, equality, individualism, representative gohmert and private property. but as the late samuel huntington pointed out, national identity based solely on a creed can be fragile. back in 2004, he wrote an important but controversial book titled who are we? the challenges to america's national identity. as he explained the rise of multiculturalism and the decline of the assimilationist ideal, could diminish the larger american national identity which he believed was essential for the long run survival of the country as a unified political entity. and so this could be dangerous because a protracted economic downturn could undercut the credibility of the american dream. and by extension american national identity. so as a consequence, extremism long relegated to the fringe could become more mainstream. thank you. that's all i have. [applause] >> so, if you have any questions right now i will do my best to answer them. >> you talked about the polarization of the right and left an out if it's not kept in check, do you think this polarizatio

. >> congressman gohmert is offering $500,000 to anyone who can provide information on who may have destroyed the e-mails. meanwhile, the irs says it's working to try to comply with the house ways and means committee's request for more documents on the e-mails and computer crash which supposedly erased all those e-mails. there was a letter sent to the chairman of the committee saying, quote, we will get as much information to you next week. i had hoped to provide you with responses today, but critical information is still being collected and verified. that letter was sent yesterday. but koskinen cautions that the irs already has provided a seven-page document to the committee outlining what the irs knows about lerner's computer crash and what irs employees already have done to, quote, collect miss lerner's e-mails from other sources. >> all right, molly, thank you very much. >>> well, the supreme court speaks out and a television streaming website, aereo is listening. it's shutting down for now. it is a company that provides television content to its subscribers via the internet. earlier this

congressman louie gohmert is serving in his fifth term in the u.s. house of representatives. he was recently named the vice chair of the judiciary subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security and has extensive knowledge. he was elected to the three terms of the district or to the county later appointed by governor rick perry as the justice of the court of appeals. he still teaches sunday school to this day and it is my pleasure to introduce to you the congressman louie gohmert. [applause] i appreciate you standing before the talk and i never know how it is going to go after i do. but you know what, god has a way of preparing us for what is ahead of us. he really does. i know when i ran for the judge i felt like it was a calling. i've had people on the reporters say you felt it was a calling committed you hear voices? i wish i heard voices. life would be so much easier. there was a guy that did hear voices and they told him what to do. i've never been that fortunate. i pray. i read the bible, i seek couns counsel. but my wife and i felt like this was a calling. at th

>> it has absolutely not led to more representative gohmert -- government in north carolina at all. the will of the people in the state of north carolina is not being heard, everything that's represented by the demonstrations which have occurred in our state, started of with five of people coming every monday when we convene our sessions, protesting many of these policies that have been implement it. they grew to masses of 7500 people. to close to 1000 people arrested. the cost was absolutely -- to the policies that were coming out of raleigh. these were actions that not only impacting the voting rights for individuals. if you would poll people about these voters laws that were passed and asked them whether they like the early vote period, we've eliminated now when we go that early vote. in 2008 we had over 7000 people vote that first week. by the time 201210, 900,000 people voting, people also the right to do same-day voter registration when they came in for early voting. there were people getting, able to preregister at the 17 to so they can vote when they are 18. if you ask the v

gohmert of texas. page 85, line three -- line 3 after the dollar amount insert reduced by $7,100,000. page 7, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert reduced by $17,600,000. page 156, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert increased by $24,700,000. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i agree with my friend that congress is dysfunctional. i'm told by people that were here in the late 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, that if a president started usurping power of the legislature, of the congress that very quietly the leaders of the house and senate from both parties would make a quick trip down pennsylvania avenue and tell the president that he either needed to stop usurping congressional authority, start living within the law, quit being lawless, and that would generally take care of it. and it was a bipartisan and bicameral effort. unfortunately, this body is dysfunctional. when you look at the efforts to protect and ad-- protect an administration that

unity, can he say what more he believes can be done to encourage more inclusive and representative gohmert which is essential to the future of iraq? >> first of all the leader of the opposition is right that one of the crucial things that needs to happen is for the iraqi government to take a more inclusive approach towards shia, sunni and kurd as important constituent parts of a right but i can tell the house the latest reports indicate fighting is continuing on a front from -- the oil refinery is currently under attack by isil. they are fighting isil. there is this large-scale recruitment not only of shia militias but also of the young recruits to the iraqi armed forces and it is vital that proceeds and that isil is pushed back by the iraqis. but the key thing to recognize here is when you get this combination of poor governance can of ungoverned bases and support for extremism, that provides an opportunity for the terrorists and went to address this on each of those three fronts. supporting the iraqi government for the work they need to do. >> mr. speaker, i agree, this crisis though it'

i hope that they would add a provision to this act, lewis gohmert and mr.e,. >> one of the i.t. trade associations said they don't believe the story, a nonpartisan group. the president said the notion that these e-mails magically vanished makes no sense. this is not how i.t. asset management at major businesses and government institutions work in any country especially this country. that is the whole thing. this is what darrell issa was getting at. how do we know he's telling the truth? how do we know these hard drives were destroyed? >> initially the president was shocked and appalled that something like this would happen. now they are just plain out scandals. everything but iraq. he said yesterday in minnesota, phony scandals. take a listen. >> these are just washington fights. they're fabricated issues. they are phony scandals that are generated. >> really? >> he was there in a town hall in minnesota. he's apparently this summer going to do a road show to show people that he has not lost touch with them. what's curious, though, is he talks about the phon

gohmert for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you director for being here.ciate you taking on the job you have taken on which includes the unpleasant task of having to come and talk to us but thank you for being here. you mentioned in your opening statement about syria being in breeding ground for. terrorism. i had met with some libyans who had originally been rebels and the so-called arab spring and they were telling me that there are terrorists camps springing up all over eastern libya and that's the area they came through to meet with me in egypt. are you aware of any terrorist training cramps springing up in libya these days? >> it's not something i know a lot about and it's probably not something i want to talk about in open session even the little i do know. >> since you mentioned syria i wanted to see if you knew anything about libya because these were people that they said were radicals so much in charge of the rebel efforts that they were quite active but anyway we know that on the border particularly texas with mexico there is this massive influx o

. >> louis gohmert is pushing a bill to give a million dollar bounty to anyone who can recover the lost e-mails, a half million more if anyone is arrested for hiding them. the chief archivist said is the irs broke the law. >> i think it's a serious matter. when evidence is not available, it's. >> potentially criminal? >> i don't know whether it's criminal or not. certainly we need to get to the bottom of it. >> worthy of a criminal investigation. >> i don't think there's any evidence of that. >> furthermore he says. >> i should emphasize all e-mails are not official records. if it is lost, it doesn't mean we've lost an official record. >> many democrats are calling all of this a witch hunt but koskinen's own politics aren't helping. he's personally donated more than $100,000 to politicians all democrats. yet he insists -- >> i've never been a partisan orply operative. i have had asked by the bush administration 0 come in and work on freddie mac. >> still as wisconsin congressman paw ryan's office put it in a note to cnn, there's a credibility gap that commissioner koskinen is struggling

gohmert, had been postponed and the bill had been read through page 10, line 15. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. ellison of minnesota. page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert the following, reduce by $10 million, increased by $10 million. . the chair: the gentleman from minnesota and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. ellison: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, the purpose of this amendment is very simple. it's simply to help american workers as defense related factories wind down production. it is to allocate an additional $10 million to the office of economic adjustment from the general operations and maintenance fund. the office of economic adjustment helps communities across america when a factory shuts down. over the last decade of war, middle-class factory workers have stepped up to the plate to make sure our troops on the battlefield have the weapons and equipment they needed a

please welcome louie gohmert from the state of texas.applause] it is so great to be here with you. order to steal my thunder from tomorrow, i would have to have something to begin with. what you do not have. you are such a breath of fresh air. right here in the heart of the capital. let me tell you this too. with all the trouble so we have gotten ourselves into -- and, understanding what god told -- i like the translation that says god is telling hosea why he is they havehey said chosen leaders who were not my choice. whoa. we can hear people say, i am part of the group that does not support that. guess what? you are part of the country where it is being supported anyway. you know? believe, as was said eloquently years ago -- i have lived over a long time. the morer i live, convincing proofs i see of this truth. affairs of in the men and if a sparrow can't fall to the ground without his notice, is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid? we have been assured that unless the lord builds the house, they labor in vain to build i

gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i would just like a robo t attention to call that was made on behalf of one of our republican colleagues down the hall. i really hope that he had othing to do with it because it was dishonest, reprehensible, played the race card and attempted to divide eople and in fact, apparently, was conspiring to try to get people who were going to vote for the democrat in november to vote for the republican -- in the republican primary runoff which under their state's law is not lawful, not legal. so i certainly hope senator cochran had nothing to do with it, but it sounds like it helped him win his election, and this is exactly the kind of thing that people in the house, senate should not be involved in, trying to mislead individual voters, trying to trick them into voting for themselves because one thing is absolutely clear. if it requires trickery, deception, dishonesty, manipulation, unfair manipulation of people in another party to violate the law and vote for a particular candidate

gohmert. >> thank you. and i appreciate your being here. i'm sorry i was late. this is a project that's near and dear to my heart and when ed meese caused and asked if i would participate in something that dealt with the problem that i saw as a massive problem, overcriminalization, something that as a former prosecutor, judge, chief justice has driven me crazy, because i had seen, when people want to beat their chest and show how tough they are, well, let's slap a criminal penalty on something. and so as you know, we talked about there may be 5,000 or so crimes. they're not in 18 u.s. code where they ought to be as a criminal code. and i had wondered why in the world have we not been able to clean this mess up before. and what i'd heard is that it seems like every time a project gets fired up to try to clean up the criminal code, that it ends up being a big santa claus christmas bag and people start trying to throw more and more in it and then overall, you lose too many votes and people go, i can't agree to that. wait a minute. i love the idea. i was on board bu

gohmert for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. charirman, thank you, director, for being here. we appreciate you taking the job you've taking on which includes such unpleasant tasks of having to come talk to us, but thank you for being here. you mentioned in your opening statement about syria being a breeding ground for terrorism. i met with some libyans who had originally been rebels in the so-called asian, or arab spring, rather. and they were telling me that there are terrorist camps springing up all over eastern libya. that that's an area that came through to meet with me in egypt. are you aware of terrorist training camps springing up in libya these days? >> it's not something i know a lot about. it's probably not something i want to talk about in open session, even the little i do know. >> well, since you mentioned syria, i wanted to see if you knew anything about libya because these are people that were -- they said before the radicals took so much in charge of their rebel efforts that they were quite active, but anyway, we know that on the border, particularly texas wit

gohmert for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you director for being here.te you taking on the job you have taken on which includes the unpleasant task of having to come and talk to us but thank you for being here. you mentioned in your opening statement about syria being in breeding ground for. terrorism. i had met with some libyans who had originally been rebels and the so-called arab spring and they were telling me that there are terrorists camps springing up all over eastern libya and that's the area they came through to meet with me in egypt. are you aware of any terrorist training cramps springing up in libya these days? >> it's not something i know a lot about and it's probably not something i want to talk about in open session even the little i do know. >> since you mentioned syria i wanted to see if you knew anything about libya because these were people that they said were radicals so much in charge of the rebel efforts that they were quite active but anyway we know that on the border particularly texas with mexico there is this massive influx of p