U.S. Congressman LOUIE GOHMERT: Proudly Serving the First District of Texas

 

Opinion Pieces

  • Ensuring Pay for Our Military
    Aug 17, 2011 - Under current law, if a budget impasse prevents Congress and the White House from funding the government, and a government shutdown occurs, our men and women in uniform would not be assured of being paid. They would continue to perform their patriotic duties and, in many cases, put their lives on th... More
  • FDR's Unconstitutional D-Day Prayer
    May 30, 2011 - On June 6, 1944, the long awaited efforts to establish a beachhead in northern Europe finally came to fruition. Many have seen actual film footage of the carnage. Many watched the Longest Day or Saving Private Ryan and think they know all about the anguish of those who gave the orders for that day. ... More
  • Raising the Debt Ceiling: Republicans' Last Stand
    May 6, 2011 - For fiscal year 2007, the last year for which the Republican majority was responsible for the budget, Republicans were properly berated by Democrats for being so irresponsible as to run up a $160 billion deficit. After President Obama took office, those very same beraters found it perfectly acceptab... More
  • Answered Prayer
    Dec 25, 2010 - Mother had become so very impulsive. You never knew what she might do next. This brilliant woman in her younger years had put herself through Baylor University in less than three years while working full-time, was a member of an Honor Society, and had spent most of her professional life as an eighth... More
  • The New Obama Stimulus and Tax Tango
    Dec 16, 2010 - Later today, the House is expected to vote on HR 4853 -- the “Tax-Cut-and-Stimulus” package that President Obama recently negotiated with the Senate. Since this so-called compromise bill that would extend the current tax rates for two years first came out, I have had very mixed feelings about it. On... More
  • Christians and Government
    Oct 18, 2010 - Judge not lest ye be judged. Be ye kind. Be a good Samaritan. Turn the other cheek. Love one another. These are only a few of the scriptures that are so often mentioned by professing Christians who are asking to be disqualified from jury duty for religious reasons. As a district judge in Texas, I wa... More
  • Stop the Al Queda Civilian Trials
    Nov 30, 2009 - David Guinn, my Constitutional Law Professor at Baylor Law School, used to say, “The Supreme Court is the only federal court in the country that does not owe its existence and jurisdiction to the United States Congress.” The U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8 says that the Congress shall have... More
  • Health Care: The HSA Solution
    Sep 8, 2009 - The current level of spending and growth in health care cost will soon bankrupt our nation, with the latest full year numbers showing that tax dollars spent in 2007 on Medicare grew to more than $430 billion, and almost $330 billion for Medicaid. That year, these programs cost the federal government... More
  • Hate Crimes Bill Infringes First Amendment Rights
    Apr 27, 2009 - The new Federal Hate Crimes bill, which is about to pass the House, intrudes on First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion. It’s another great leap forward on the “gay rights” agenda. We’ve been sliding down this slope for too long. When I joined the American Bar Association, I understood it w... More
  • Exempt DC Residents from Federal Taxation
    Feb 13, 2009 - Congressional liberals are once again trying to pass legislation to give Washington, D.C. a voting representative in the House. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s D.C. Voting Rights Act of 2009 is a bad bill, which would extinguish the Constitutional difference between the District of Columbia and the 50 ... More