gohmert, is recognize dollars r 60 minutes as the designee f the majority leader. mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, there are some people that wanted to be heard and didn't have a chance and i would be glad to ield such time as they need. be glad to yield. yield to my friend. mr. jeffries: i thank my good friend for yielding a few moments for us to close this very important special order. and let me just yield to congresswoman joyce beatty to finish her remarks as we prepare to conclude this c.b.c. special order. and let me thank congressman gohmert for yielding a few moments of his time. mrs. beatty: thank you to my colleague. let me continue and be very brief with saying, michael brown had a promising future before his life was cut short before his life was cut short. he was supposed to start technical college, planning to be a heating and cooling engineer one day, hoped to start his own business. strove to set a an example, teaching them to stay in school. instead, another loss. michael brown fell victim to a criminal just tim system that too often fails people of color. unfortunately,

barton: i thank congressman gohmert.ecognize the gentlelady who represents part of dallas county, the honorable eddie bernice johnson who comes from the same hometown i do, waco, texas. ms. johnson: thank you very much. i'm delighted to join you in saying some words about ralph hall, my friend. it has been my honor and privilege to serve with my colleague and friend and we had some laughs just recently when i visited him about our history nd working together in elected office. our relationship goes back to when i was in the texas house and i left the texas house in the 1970's. talking about things that we remember. i really regret that he's not here today, but he wanted to be and he planned to be, but he's not going to make it today. but as all of you who have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out -- as all of you have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out on stories and jokes, some of them really funny and some can't be said in some places. so i won't try to match him in story t

barton: i thank congressman gohmert. i'd now like to recognize the gentlelady who represents part of dallas county, the honorable eddie bernice johnson who comes from the same hometown i do, waco, texas. ms. johnson: thank you very much. i'm delighted to join you in saying some words about ralph hall, my friend. it has been my honor and privilege to serve with my colleague and friend and we had some laughs just recently when i visited him about our history nd working together in elected office. our relationship goes back to when i was in the texas house and i left the texas house in the 1970's. talking about things that we remember. i really regret that he's not here today, but he wanted to be and he planned to be, but he's not going to make it today. but as all of you who have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out -- as all of you have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out on stories and jokes, some of them really funny and some can't be said in some places. so i won't try to ma

gohmert, is recognize dollars r 60 minutes as the designee f the majority leader. mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, there are some people that wanted to be heard and didn't have a chance and i would be glad to ield such time as they need. be glad to yield. yield to my friend. mr. jeffries: i thank my good friend for yielding a few moments for us to close this very important special order. and let me just yield to congresswoman joyce beatty to finish her remarks as we prepare to conclude this c.b.c. special order. and let me thank congressman gohmert for yielding a few moments of his time. mrs. beatty: thank you to my colleague. let me continue and be very brief with saying, michael brown had a promising future before his life was cut short before his life was cut short. he was supposed to start technical college, planning to be a heating and cooling engineer one day, hoped to start his own business. strove to set a an example, teaching them to stay in school. instead, another loss. michael brown fell victim to a criminal just tim system that too often fails people of color. unfortunately,

i heard what louie gohmert had to say about king crab legs.his woman could not afford kraft macaroni and cheese because it was 35 cents too expensive. the narrative out there about the poor taking advantage of the safety net is insidious and powerful. and we did our best to try to correct the record in some way. >> let's take a look at a clip from our series. you profiled a single mother of four who relies on public assistance to survive. here it is. >> usually i get a box of elbow macaroni and i just get regular sandwich cheese and put it in and make my own macaroni and cheese. >> sarah hoskins is a 28-year-old single mother of four. she relies on food stamps to make ends meet. for sarah, there's no crab legs. >> you wouldn't buy this? >> not the kraft. it's a dollar. >> for families like the hoskins, even the basics are sometimes too much. >> i don't use vegetable oil, i use grease. >> is that cheaper? >> yes. i can get a tub of lard, a five-gallon bucket of lard and it's like $30 for the cheapest brand they got. >> you know, that's pretty r

jeffries: thank you, judge gohmert. i yield back. . mr. gohmert: i thank you, mr. jeffries, my colleague and friend. i knew that words that were going to be spoken were from the heart and i'm glad to be able to facilitate that. thank you. and it does take me back, again, i was just a little kid when -- a little bitty kid, when martin luther king jr. was standing up for civil rights for all people and we've heard over and over, well, he did wonderful things for african-americans but i happen to know as a white christian boy growing up in east texas that the work he did and the life he gave actually enabled me as a little white boy to treat my brothers and sisters like brothers and sisters. nd that's the ultimate goal. is when, as dr. king said, we judge each other by the content of our character and not by the color of the skin. that's a goal to shoot for. t also meant that when i was a quarterback and captain for the j.v., junior varsity, team in our high school, it meant i got to have coach williams as my head coach and just loved coach williams. but it was tough

gohmert. mr. gohmert: i wanted to address the bills we took up late today. first we voted on h.r. 5759, this is the bill exactly as it appears. we always have copies of the bill that we vote on that are out here in the speaker's lobby, so you can grab them as you come in here and see what you are voting on. but what this did not reflect was the exception -- the provisions that were added last night that had to be added by hand here on the floor so as i tried to talk to my colleagues here on the floor and pointed out that our republican leadership had added an exception, they didn't know that. and i had to show them. so, mr. speaker, i felt it was important to explain why a bill that i was listed as a co-sponsor on ended up with my voting no on it. it was a good bill. and my friend ted yoho is a good man and good friend and he had a good bill here. and the purpose as established -- it says to establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief. and it was basically to make clear tha

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. well, it's been quite an interesting couple of days coming back from thanksgiving and this morning an interesting conference. what to do about a president who for a number of years, a couple dozen times or so, makes very clear he's not a king, he's not an emperor, he'd rather not have to deal with congress, congress is a messy thing to deal with, but he can't just do what he wants regarding immigration without fol throwing constitution and that means under the constitution, article 1, section 8, congress has sole authority when it comes to issues like naturalization and immigration. and prior congresses have passed laws and made it clear what it takes to become a united states citizen. now those laws need fixing. there is no question about that. and despite all the rhetoric, our friends on the other side of the aisle, when they controlled the majority in the house and the majority in the senate and president obama in the white house, chose to absolutely do nothing about correcting imm

gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to associate myself with the words of my colleague, rob woodall from georgia. i think this body's been blessed by rob woodall being here and his words tonight just einforce that. so the president has declared an amnesty. the law of the land is that if someone is in this country illegally, they're not allowed to legally work. to change that law requires a bill. as "saturday night live" pointed out in their version of schoolhouse rock, a bill has to pass the house, has to pass the senate and then it goes to the president and gets his signature, if it is going to change existing law. for anyone to just pronounce, re's the new change, is an iscriminate approach -- an indiscriminate approach to changing the law without following the law and i believe that such an indiscriminate approach would be both wise and unfair. it would suggest to those thinking about coming here illegally that there will be no repercussions for such a decision. and this could lead to a surge in more illegal

would be quiet, but then the chilly press conference with ted cruz and michele bachmann and louie gohmert, and not only did they not fear a government shutdown, but any member of congress who went with john boehner and voted for this, and any member of congress who did that should not be allowed to take the oath of office in january, and so all along the beltway, it is fine. and john boehner says it is going to be fine, and it is obviously fine, don't worry about it, because it is not going to be hard to pass. so there are the signs on the right that it would be hard to pass and also signs at john boehner's office that maybe it is going to be hard to pass. we know the time line now, right? the government is due to run out of money tonight. and we have all, and you know, that is a scheduled thing. and as we have been approaching this deadline, which you can see from the mile off, there are signs like starting a roughly a week ago that even in john boehner's office, this plan with not looking as easy as it was supposed to be, and we were told that the bill to avoid the shutdown would be mon

barack obama, jamie dimon and john boehner working together against elizabeth warren and louie gohmert, who is tea party republican that opposes it. progressive and tea party members of congress see this as major giveback to corporations. you have the aspects of dodd-frank that deregulate some risky financial instruments in this $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" bill. that is why you saw it at last minute. president, jamie dimon and others rallied to help democrats give support they need. nancy pelosi opposed it. number two democrat, steny hoyer supported it. reinforcements came -- cheryl: i think jamie dimon is more concerned about the derivatives language being discussed among some really left-wing democrats to be honest with you. the fact you will have businesses come back to life. >> in favor of loosening some restrictions on banks. this is generally good. both parties seem equally dissatisfied with what happened here. that is usually a pretty good sign. number one job of congress right now is not to screw anything up. >> jamie dimon has been, lobbyists for jpmorgan chase have been on the

here to tell us all about it is texas congressman louis gohmert sgli didn't hear him talk about things on. first rattle out of the box he wants to talk about what he's going to veto. he's going to use his pen. well, we've already seen. he used to tell us, katie if you've got any ideas about health care my door's open. well, i tried. there are all these security people, they may not keep people from jumping over the fence, but by golly they keep people like me from getting to the president's oval office. so he wasn't serious about that. he's never really wanted to work with us. but there's a lot of things that we need to do that we didn't get done in the last congress. now, i for one felt like there were many things that we passed hundreds of bills we passed in the house. we should have forced the senate to take a vote. if we had forced the senate to take the tough votes then you would have had even more democrats staying home. >> right. >> but now that we're going to have a republican-controlled congress in both the house and senate, we need to send the bills and we need to force the s

. >> joining me from capitol hill our texas congressman louie gohmert. i want to start with this alliance because as they voted on the rule earlier today, there was a point they were down three votes. then you had a shift of a couple people in the final moments. but you had the president, jou had john boehner, rather, needing joe biden, needing the president, needing steny hoyer, throughout the day at any point were you consulted, were you brought in to the discussions? were you encouraged to vote for this? >> no. there was no encouragement to conservatives. the speaker and majority leader, these folks knew there's money for abortion, money for the epa to hurt states like texas, arizona. there's just all kinds of money in there for things we don't support. and, sean, you and i know some of us have gone to our leadership and said, look, we can do this very easily. let's do it together with conservatives. that's the bulk of our conference. don't make them take a wrong vote. let's fund everything for two months. let us have a vote on defunding obama's amnes

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barton: i thank congressman gohmert. i'd now like to recognize the gentlelady who represents part of dallas county, the honorable eddie bernice johnson who comes from the same hometown i do, waco, texas. ms. johnson: thank you very much. i'm delighted to join you in saying some words about ralph hall, my friend. it has been my honor and privilege to serve with my colleague and friend and we had some laughs just recently when i visited him about our history nd working together in elected office. our relationship goes back to when i was in the texas house and i left the texas house in the 1970's. talking about things that we remember. i really regret that he's not here today, but he wanted to be and he planned to be, but he's not going to make it today. but as all of you who have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out -- as all of you have had the pleasure of serving with ralph, we are missing out on stories and jokes, some of them really funny and some can't be said in some places. so i won't try to ma

trace: louie go merit is a texas -- gohmert is a texas republican congressman. >> great to be with you to be great news, the president wants to work with republicans now. >> what he says is he wants to get out his pen and veto. what i'm excited about is now the president has finally admitting they've been lying harry reid, all those folks who have been saying republicans were the party of no, he's basically admitted in this statement, yeah, we've been the party of no, but i've been able to rely on harry reid to say no so i didn't have to. but we've been the ones that really stopped it. that's what i'm hearing in that statement, and i'm glad the president's finally admitted like an alcoholic. the best news is when you finally admit where your problem is. trace: you mentioned that in the health care debate he was also saying we're going to work with republicans. that didn't work out the way you'd hoped. >> well, no. he said i have an open door, if you've got any ideas. a bunch of us try id. we kept asking, hey we've got some good ideas never would hear for us. so that was all for the cam

a a gohmert amendment amended that. i feel better under this ndaa because it is not continued anymore. that was a good thing. but the problem is the ndaa, this massive national defense authorization act that is a big important bill got to the rules committee last night. we didn't have a chance to read it. and i'm anal enough, i try to read these important bills. and i didn't have time to read this bill. what happened to our 72-hour promise? actually, it was a three-day promise and has been whittled down since then. but we didn't have the three days that were originally romised by republicans. the bill, i knew it would increase tricare costs. wasn't happy about that. i voted know against a procisthat takes something as important as our national defense and said here you go, here's the whole thing, trust us, vote for it. we didn't have a chance to review it. what -- were there any powers in this thing given additionally to the n.s.a.? is there any more power to spy on americans under this bill? i don't know. i couldn't vo

gohmert, is recognized for one minute. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. our chaplain today is dr. robert jeffers, senior pastor of the 11,000 member first baptist church in dallas. his opinions are ubiquitous on radio and television as is his radio program, pathway to victory." his weekly programs on over 1,200 stations and systems worldwide, while he's authored 21 books and is a fox news contributor. while some churches flea downtown areas, he led his church in a massive revitalization of downtown dallas. he has a bachelor's from baylor, masters from dallas theelogical seminary, doctors from dallas baptist university. he and his wife have two daughters who are here today and son-in-law. dr. robert is principleled, brilliant, charitable, and his faith in a god leaves no room for fear of man. he and my wife grew up together in church and he's a dear treasured friend of mine. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose do

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. there are a lot of my republican friends who have been upset with the comments of jonathan gruber, like he's quoted accurately as saying about obamacare, a lack of transparency is a political advantage. call it the stupid i have to the american voter or whatever he also said they, president obama and the democrats, proposed it and it passed because the american people are too stupid to understand the difference. now, i say to my republican colleagues, chill out. don't worry. not a single republican voted for that bill. not a single republican in the senate voted for that bill. he wasn't talking about republicans. he wasn't talking about the democrats, independents, or republicans that voted for republicans to come to the house or the senate. he was talking about the people he was paid millions by to work on obamacare. that's right he, called the democrats stupid. he wasn't talking about republicans. he knew we were smarter than that. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlema

i have faith in the constitution and have faith in this congress and the very reason that judge gohmert yielded us, i know we will be engaged in a pathway forward to make america rise to hire angels and the constitution we love. i thank you, mr. jeffries, and i yield >> some members of the congressional by caucus has suggested the president invite the family of michael brown to his state of the union address in january, where he will speak before a joint session of congress. john lewis says it would help educate and sensitize other members on some of the issues. others have suggested the family of eric garner be included in the invite. torand jury decided not indict a police officer for an incident in july, when garner was put into a chokehold while being arrested, and later died. president obama spoke briefly about the decision the day it was announced. this was during an event he was attending in washington. >> some of you may have heard there was a decision that came out today by a grand jury not to indict police officers who had interacted with an individual with eric garner in new

congressman louie gohmert is tonight's guest at the 10:00 test test test test michael, thanks for joinings this morning. we have grim news we are hearing from indonesia and singapore. what can you make of what possibly happened. a lot of people talked about or air experts had the speculation that perhaps weather, heavy clouds and storms may have had a lot to do with this. >> it is almost certain that there was something to do with weather involved with this. but we don't know. now that at least we found some debris very shortly like in the next few hours, maybe sooner. they may find the