mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i will continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume to another colleague from north carolina, mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price. mr. price: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to join colleagues today in offering condolences to families and friends and co-workers of barbara mclean spears, louis junior watson and rachel mae poston pulley, the three workers who tragically lost their lives in an explosion at the conagra plant in garner, north carolina, on june 9. this area, garner, north carolina, is an area that i formerly represented as their congressman. it's now represented by our colleague, bob etheridge, and i want to thank bob for sponsoring this resolution here today and enabling us to come together in this time of tribute. our sympathy goes out to the families of the victims but also to the 40 conagra employees who

mr. gohmert: i tried to get a copy of the bill. we have out here on the table 2454 that has 1090 pages in it. i understand there are another 300 pages that was added in the middle of the night. how do i get a copy of the other 300 pages that people here on the floor hadn't had a chance to read or see? where do we get that before we slam this, cram this down on the american people? the speaker pro tempore: the amendment is printed in the rules committee report. mr. gohmert: in the rules committee report. and, madam speaker, where would i get that report? the speaker pro tempore: the rule was passed earlier today. mr. gohmert: i'm sorry. the speaker pro tempore: the rule was passed earlier today. mr. gohmert: the rule was passed earlier today. the speaker pro tempore: the rule was passed earlier today. gomefwome that says basically we're -- mr. gohmert: that basically says we're going to the floor without people getting a copy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is not asking a parliamentary inquiry. mr. gohmert: well, i'm asking

mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i don't have any additional speakers and i'll be ready to close whenever -- my friend indicates hass no other speakers. apparently -- indicates he has no other speakers. just in conclusion, i would encourage my colleagues to support house resolution 530. my friend from tennessee mentioned satchel page. he had some great quotes, many people quote him as saying, don't look back, they may be gaining on you. but i read a quote that i like even better than that, attributed to him. and it was later in life when he said, it's ok to look back, just don't stare. and it seems to me that that's what this bill does. we look forward but we look back. we don't stare but we recognize the greatness that has gotten to us where we are today and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. and thank the gentleman from ohio

i will yield back to judge gohmert. mr. gohmert: i appreciate so much those sterling observation abouts what this bill does and the effect it's going to have. i know last summer i was approached by so many different people about the high price of of gasoline. and i know those same people are going to get hammered again as time marches on. the summer into the fall into the winter. if this becomes law, the only thing standing between it now and becoming law is the senate because the president's sure going to sign it if it gets there. but a single mom saying i don't make enough money to live in town. so i'm out in the rural area which means i have to pay more -- for more gasoline to get into town. i'm maxing out my credit card every month just on gasoline. and it's getting close on whether i have enough each month leeway in my credit card to get enough gas to keep going back and forth to my job because if i lose my job i can't pay anything, including my credit card bill. and just -- the desperation in their eyes. the things th

mr. gohmert: i yield to my friend, mr. souder. mr. souder: you've made a number of parliamentary points today during the debate and on the floor, you're an experienced judge as well as a congressman. is he allowed to use factual science on the floor? i don't know if we're allowed to really debate this stuff. this is mostly an ideological bill, not a factual bill. as mr. conaway correctly said, did they come to a conclusion and then make the facts fit the conclusion? it is really disturbing. much of what's behind this is in fact that there is a group of people who feel guilty about us being such a successful nation and about western nations being so successful. and that we use a disproportion -- use more energy than the rest of the world and other western countries like australia and new zealand are, hey, what's going on here? do we have to buy into this? what does it exactly mean that we need to sacrifice and go down in our lifestyle and what will we gain? is the science really there? then the developing countries that want to be like

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. it is heartwarming and touching to hear the tribute to phylicia moore by my colleague from new jersey, a very tching, well-deserved tribute. this bill obviously is borne out of the noblest of intentions and came unfortunately if from a tragic consequence. obviously the intention here is to safeguard our schoolchildren. could there be any more noble intention? the effect, though, unfortunately, is to further take the federal government into the local schools. we've already intruded greatly into the local schools, and tell them what they must do. initially it's to come up with a plan. there should be a plan. there should have been a plan. there should have been more direction from the local school, from the school board, i know from my own circumstances growing up, going to school in a public school, school board wouldn't allow us to take two-week trips, and had anyone been allowed to take such a field trip, then they would likely have been defeated in the next school board election bec

the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert is recognized for five minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. and i very much appreciate my friend, ms. kaptur's comments and i appreciate her insights. always very valuable and she believes as i do that we are making a big mistake by running up the deficit like crazy. some say, well, it was going on back under the bush administration. yes, it was and it wasn't right then and it's even worse now that it has been multiplied many times. every week, we are running up more of the deficit. it's got to stop. china continues to buy our debt. we just sent the secretary of the treasury over to china to encourage them to keep buying america, buy our debt, because we cannot control ourselves. imagine a parent going into a bank and saying, i need a loan because i can't control my spending. you see my little children over there, i even got some grandchildren. i'm going to pledge to you that someday, i can't pay it back, but they will. they would take the children away and yet we sent our secretary of treasury to buying our debt because we can't cont

mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. and i also want to thank the leadership and the very responsible conduct of the chairman of the task force, adam schiff, doing an exemplary job and bringing it to head as quickly as humanly can be done. and to chairman conyers and to ranking member smith. we have worked together on this because it is a very serious matter when our federal courts are held in less than high esteem. we have a federal judge, as already been mentioned, pled guilty to obstruction of! he admitted to nonconsensual sexual acts. we have the transcript from the federal court hearings in which there are actual specificity of misrepresentations. we also could take judicial notice of his orders and opinions that he wrote himself. it's very clear that as some of the witnesses testified he was arrogant, he was a bully, but that's not enough to impeach someone or remove them from office. but it's certainly on construction -- but certainly obstruction of justice would be under the circumstances here. what i found parti

mr. hastings: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. and i do appreciate the bringing of this resolution. this is a time when we should join our hearts and minds together in condemning the violent act that occurred that of all places the holocaust museum. a place that i with countless others, in my case, multiple occasions going to the museum, have been touched to tears to just try to get your mind around the inhumanity of man to man. this is a nation that was bought -- brought together as a nation, fought hard so that within this nation we could have civility. and one of the founding fathers' favorite lines was often to quote voltaire in saying, i disagree in what you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it. the criminal who invoked and created this violence in the holocaust museum should be properly punished. and i am thankful that we have laws that will punish him. i wouldn't mind seeing a death pena

mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. you know, i've been trying to get through what i could of this and then finding out, well, actually it's another bill and then you have to incorporate all these other pages into it because i'd like to know what we're doing to the american people. we've had people say we're playing politics on this side. if we wanted to play politics because we know in our hearts this is bad for america, we'd let you pass it and let you lose your jobs. but i've kind of grown kind of fond of some of my friends on the other side. i'd like to keep you around. anyway, let me tell you those who say there won't be any job losses. let me read some of the things that are in your bill. the climate change adjustment allowance. when you lose your job, for any week of unemployment, you going to get some unemployment assistance after that. that's in there. you got some relocation allowance, but the could you degra is that if you're -- the cue degrass is if you lose your job, we find a study in here. so i would enco

the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, for five minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. and i do appreciate this opportunity. you know, there are so many people out of work around this country. we know since president obama took office two million more people have lost jobs. it's staggering and quite sobering. i recently met with many people who are unemployed in a north lufkin church. i guess virtually all were african-americans. these were people ready to go to work, willing to go to work, good strong work ethic, had families, keeping caring about their community and their families. and so it got me to looking and thinking, what can i do to use my position to try to help people get jobs? there's the texas work force commission that does a good job trying to have job fairs, but it turned out by using my position, partnering with other groups, chamber of different groups, we were able to have around 50 employers with over 1,000 jobs to offer but even that doesn't satisfy all of the needs for all of the jobs people are needing who are ou

mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. just moments ago on this floor, there was cheering, there's clapping over the passing of the cap and trade bill and it's a little tough to get excited. you know from a political standpoint, i should be overjoyed because i really believe in my heart that when the american people find out and this is just a part of it, when they find out what has been done to them, they are going to be livid and throw some people out of this body. i just know that will happen. but i care more about america than i do politics. and i know that we will be facing the single moms that we heard from last summer that can't afford the gasoline bill. they can't afford the propane. you didn't do a great thing. you hert some really decent families struggling trying to make it and this is going to be their death nil. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: any further requests for one-minutes? the gentleman from tennessee? mr. cohen: address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. c

mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. it was a proud moment for us to be able to come together in a bipartisan fashion and support the supplemental here in the house as put together in the house for the troops. but to add this mess that's coming down here from the conference that the senate stuck in, over $100 billion to the i.m.f.. i mean, they're loaning money that they get from us that we're going to have to borrow from china to give to countries who hate us and would love to see us go away. that makes no sense. if we're going to add this additional burden onto the american taxpayer, which is going to work counter to the troops who are out there putting their lives at risk, why not just bring them home and not pay our enemies all that extra money and call it a wash?  if we're going to give money that we're going to have to borrow from the chinese, let's just call it a wash, bring our troops home instead of funding our enemies. that's ridiculous. we should not go there. let's stop this and get back to the good bill we

mr. lewis: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. we'd like to touch on the issue of gitmo as well. i've been there a couple of times. those people are well treated. particularly when you consider they are enemy combatants. they are part of a group that declare war on this country. and throughout the history of mankind when a group declares war on another group and the group on which they declared war it humane enough to take prisoners then they are held until the group says they are no longer at war. here there are people in this country, in the administration who do not understand that these people still want to kill us. look at the pleading of khalid shaikh mohammed. his words, we are terrorists to the bone. you release those people, bring them in the united states. we already heard from one case that the supreme court majority is wanting to give them rights to which they are not or should not be entitled. and th

gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the time. this is a trying time and i appreciate my friend from texas belief and hope in the future. i just have read enough of of this bill and know enough to understand about the consequences. this isn't the whole bill. this is 2/3 of it. the other 300 pages they allowed me to borrow a copy briefly earlier today during debate, right before the debate closed, but this is about 2/3 of it. we are having a job fair in longview, texas monday. that arose when i met with a bunch of my constituents, most all were african-americans, a month or so ago who had lost jobs because jobs were being moved overseas. energy was too costly here. the corporate tax is twice as much here as -- over twice as much as what it is in china. and i have been hearing from other manufacturers that we have in our district that if this cap and trade bill goes through and becomes law, there will be many more lost jobs. and it breaks my heart. it broke my heart to meet with those people there in north lufkin and others around m

gohmert. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. chairman. -- mr. speaker. as someone who served as a judge and chief justice and had a constantly -- had it constantly drubbed into my head during hours and hours and hours of ethics classes about the appearance and potential conflict of interest, we know our chairman was deservedly getting accolades from crew and others for recusing himself in 2007 because of the reported investigation by the department of justice. this is an elephant in the room. the department of justice budget is being dealt with here and there's been no indications that there has not been an investigation, so i'm hoping that the record can be clear because it does look funny, it smells bad, if someone is under investigation and they're managing the budget for those who are doing the investigation , i thought it was a wonderful thing that chairman mollohan did in 2007, he deserved the accolades he got for recusing himself and i was wondering, i'd be glad time for the chairman to indicate if there is no further inv

mr. gohmert: i thank my friend for yielding. and your last comments are exactly what i would like to discuss as well, and that is these people are unelected. we were promised before the november elections that we would have unparalleled transparency, that you would know everything about the government, everything that was going on, we were going to be transparent, we were told, if only you would elect the obama administration -- elect him president, and that would happen. and we've heard people say in this body that there was a mandate. we got a mandate. no, you didn't. you barely got a majority that elected you to have transparency. we were promised there would be change bass this administration would stop the insane deficit spending. and some of us, including those of us here were not happy with our own president bush and his administration spending too much money. and they got enough of our colleagues to help them spend too much money, on our side of the aisle, some from the other side of the aisle, but it was too much money.

the speaker pro tempore: mr. gohmert. mr. hensarling. mr. paulsen. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for five minutes and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. paulsen: we owe our way of life to people and it's important for us to remember that every freedom we enjoy, every moment of safety and every dream we have for the future that we hold was purchased with the blood and sacrifice of our military families. we should not only be thankful for the reality for the quality of our life, but for those who laid theirs down to make it possible. we are aware of the things that make our society run, electricity, gasoline, money, jobs, for example. but our society also runs on values, honesty, integrity, service and sacrifice. our national progress can truly be measured by the quality of our spirit. here again, our military families epitomize these essential american values. they are role models for all of us to follow. with that introdu

mr. gohmert of texas. mr. broun of georgia. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentlewoman from ohio, mrs. smith is we can reck niced for 60 minutes as designee of the majority leader. mrs. schmidt: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise tonight to shine a light on a subject where i do not believe this administration's actions are living up to its rhetoric. whether it was said on the campaign trail or in speeches during his time in office, the president is certainly -- has certainly tried to sound reasonable on the issue of life. but the administration's actions belie its words. during a campaign appearance with pastor rick war on august 167, 2009, then-candidate barack obama made clear that his goal was to, quote, reduce the number of abortions. in fact, he said that he had, quote, inserted this into the democratic party platform. how do we reduce the number of abortions, end quote. now given the administration's expressed support for roe v. wade i never expected nor do not expect it to suddenly reverse its c

mr. gohmert: i appreciate my friend from california yielding. with regard to the polar bears and natural resources committee, we have been hearing that by 20 years ago, we were up to under 12,000 polar bears in the whole world. and now we know there are over 25,000 polar bears in the world. they're doing pretty well. but as we know -- and there's some friends here from texas. in texas, we have a problem with overpopulation of deer, because they don't know when to stop overpopulating, so we have seasons to help them keep from starving to death. it is misleading to stee the ice cap breaking off and the starving mother bear and the cub, that's heartbreaking and it's heartbreaking that millions of dollars come flowing in. and if you've got millions of dollars coming in from people who feel bad about the polar bears -- and by the way, the bush administration was asked to say that the polar bears were -- should be on the endangered species list, but the bush administration knew they were increasing, just like you are saying. and so what they did was c

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mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. there's blood in the streets in iran tonight. it's morning over there. but blood is running in the streets. people have been outraged at what they say was the stealing of an election. so does it help to have a