mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: i'd like to follow up on the comments of my dear friend's special order earlier, by congressman ron desantis. i know there were a number of people that spoke, but the ones actually saw and heard, congressman desantis, dear friend, dear friend ted yoho, and my dear friend jim jordan did an extraordinary job of laying out why we simply have to show that this house has standards, that congress has rules, and you can only thumb your nose so far, you can only in some waysud and has competent before there to be an impeachment and with regard to the head of the , the al revenue service case has been made very effectively in the prior special add onto thatt to by reference to this article from the "washington examiner" entitled "i.r.s. chief." basically the i.r.s. chief is saying, this, this is the headline. agency encourages illegal immigrant theft of social security numbers to file tax returns. it's by rudy takawa, dated april 12. and it says the i.r.s. is struggling to ensure that

mr. gohmert: thank you. i am so grateful to my friends across the aisle for bringing up a subject that has bothered me for years, for years. having been a state district judge, i was bothered when people would be nominated for a federal bench and they wouldn't get their hearing or perhaps, like a gentleman named bork, a gentleman named clarence thomas. they got a hearing, but as justice thomas properly stated back at the time, it wasn't so much a hearing as it was a high-tech lynching. but i'm sure all of us have our own personal stories that we're personally aware of. just happen to be one of 435 who have personal knowledge of personal friends, of people who were imminently qualified and were eventually confirmed. one of them was my law school colleague and we served in the same firm together for a few years, leonard e. davis. he was nominated in 1992 and, yes, as my friends across the aisle point out, it was the last of four years of the george h.w. bush term, but there was no reason not to give him a hear

mr. gohmert: i thought his name would be from kentucky. mr. massie: his name is joel. mr. gohmert: well, that's wonderful. he looks quite comfortable here on the floor. looks like he would be a good fit someday. mr. massie: i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding and i yield back. mr. gohmert: i thank my friend for making that point. that we ointed out took last year that the iranians had not complied. the administration had not complied, as i recall, with the requirements to provide proper information, but the gentleman from kentucky is exactly right. the real issue was a vote in the senate on it being a treaty d the senate has not yet voted on the iranian treaty as a treaty and if they would do that when it didn't get the 2/3 otes, then we could stop the outrage of sending billions of dollars to a country that has a assive amount of american -- precious american blood on its hands because of the way in which they have funded terrorism. they were the largest provider of i.e.d.'s when americans were fighting for muslim freedom in rke -- iraq and yet iran continued to

mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i realize my time has expired, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: i move we do now hereby adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion of adjournment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until noon on monday ext the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 2666 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to prohibit the federal communications commission from regulating rates charged for broadband internet access service. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo, each will control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. walden: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i

mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. it's an interesting time, ometimes i think about the literary quote, these are the times that try men's souls. but there have been trying times before, and there will be again. but our congress continues to be urged to do things that sound like a great solution, sound like a good, compassionate thing to do, but when you get to the bottom of them, sometimes they're the st uncompassionate things we could do. for example, reports of sexual abuse victims who are female there eply troubled, are f.b.i. statistics that indicate that perhaps 18%, maybe 20% of women in america have been sexually assaulted. other types of crimes on females raise the percentage even higher. and there are statistics that indicate transgender may be .3%. who knows what the right numbers are. but i think we should be far more compassionate with female sexual abuse victims that in rise such a large number weighing whether you want to have men come walking in on women in restrooms, dressing rooms. also, the talk has

mr. speaker, tonight freedom has died a bloody death." >> "you lie." >> thank you, louis gohmert. >> they for everything. if i had a nickel for every time i heard a republican say that during the obama years i'd have enough money to sit next to george clooney at a political fund-raiser. it's just -- the extremes that are out there and now everybody's jumping on trump saying he's the next stalin or hitler. >> well, we're not only not argentina, we probably in many ways are the strongest economy in the world. >> right. >> we have come back from 2008/2009 much better than the europeans are. we wouldn't want to trade our problems today for the chinese problems. we have problems, to be sure. buff you know we're not doing that badly and there are a lot of good things going on. that's not what campaigns are about, though. the opposition party, whether it's the democrats or republicans want to talk about how bad things are. >> i know, exactly. it's also, bob, you look at the fact this political season -- in the beginning we were complaining there weren't enough debates. what i hear now is oh my g

mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank my friends yoho by congressman ted from florida. my friend from georgia. comments from dr. gosar and steve king from iowa. these are deep apply troubling times and the supreme court is taking up the united states versus texas and accentuates that issue. d sometimes it's nice to pay tribute to folks. , beautiful couple .ere -- it's a pastor and his is pastor jesse wife maria with their granddaughter in this picture. beautiful couple. you can feel the love eminating from the picture. pastor jesse estrada was a at a baptist er church in houston in the cloverleaf area. he was an excellent carpenter and owned a home remode willing business. his wife maria, she loves her granddaughter was a retired home caregiver with her children with speaking needs. a beautiful couple. jesse never accepted a salary from the church and instead relied upon his job as a carpenter to feed his family. so it appears that the pastor was working -- acting in the vein of the apostle -- well, p