mr. gohmert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized for three minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. i appreciated so much my friend, mr. scott, bringing that oath. it does mean a lot. in my case, taking that oath to serve in the army for four years taking basically the same oath to be a prosecutor in texas, to be a judge in texas to be a chief justice in texas and now to be in congress, it means something. and protecting the constitution means that if we don't preserve the balance of power then this -- this little experiment in democracy or the republic, madam as benjamin franklin referred to, will be lost. so i appreciated what my friend from maryland said, and i wrote it down because it was profound and i quote, we gave up the opportunity to act responsibly, and i would humbly submit, madam speaker, that that's been going on for the last six years. now, some of it went on during the bush administration as the president and -- used executive orders and took powers that probably shouldn't have been his.

mr. gohmert is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. i do appreciate my friends' discussion today. in fact there's an article i'd like to move right into regarding the president's proposal to help middle america by going after corporations this is an article money news, from news max. this points out that posturing as a champion of needed public investments and fairness president barack obama wants new taxes on the overseas earnings of american businesses. that would kill jobs, punish retired americans. although special deals permit some corporations to pay low taxes, most pay a heavy burden. the estimated effect of u.s. corporate -- effective u.s. corporate tax rate is about 27%, well above the 20% imposed by other industrialized countries. the united states is virtually alone by taxing the overseas profits of -- profits of its multinationals when those are repatriated. this has encouraged u.s. firms to invest nearly $2.1 trillion of their earnings abroad instead of bringing some of that money home to

mr. chairman. i yield back. >> i thank the gentlelady from california. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, judge gohmert. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to the witnesses that are here today. want to direct the first question to our two law professors. did both of you read the 123-page opinion by judge hannon? >> yes. >> yes. >> ok. >> i got it here myself. for full disclosure andy was a classmate in law school. he was one of the best and brightest. that's why he went with one of the best firms in the country in houston. and why president bush nominated him. he's a brilliant guy. have you also read the response that has been fired by d.o.j.? >> yes. >> ok. i was noticing in page 10 of the response where they're saying the government will suffer irrefutable harm absent a stay and in the very next sentence they say that injunction the judge granted blocks d.h.s. from exercising its authority conferred by congress and it's congress that's trying to stop them from exercising the authority, not by executive order as the judge says, but as a good monarch would do, the president spoke law into existence