| 00:00:00 | JOBS. |
| 00:00:01 | PUT OUR AMERICAN ENERGY WORKERS BACK TO WORK. |
| 00:00:03 | WITH THAT, MR. |
| 00:00:04 | SPEAKER, I YIELD BACK. |
| 00:00:06 | THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. |
| 00:00:12 | UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, MR. |
| 00:00:21 | GOHMERT, FOR 60 MINUTES. |
| 00:00:48 | MR. GOHMERT: THANK YOU, MR. |
| 00:00:50 | SPEAKER. |
| 00:00:51 | AGAIN, IT'S CERTAINLY A PRIVILEGE TO GET TO SPEAK IN THIS HALLOWED HALL WHERE SO MANY COURAGEOUS DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE AND ALSO SO MANY ILL-BEGOTTEN DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. |
| 00:01:08 | SPEAKING OF WHICH, TODAY IN OUR NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE WE VOTED OUT A BILL OUT OF COMMITTEE TO DEAL WITH THE DISASTER IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, DISASTROUS OIL SPILL THAT HOPEFULLY, MAYBE THEY'VE GOT AN CAP ON THINGS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP THE OIL FROM DESTROYING LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS . |
| 00:01:43 | BUT OUR BILL DID SOME AMAZING THINGS. |
| 00:01:47 | FOR EXAMPLE, THE BILL WE PASSED IN COMMITTEE, SHOULD BE COMING TO THE FLOOR NOW FOR A VOTE FOR THE WHOLE CONGRESS, PROVIDED $900 MILLION A YEAR FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS, THROUGH 2040, TO BUY MORE LAND FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SIT ON. |
| 00:02:16 | NOW, IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT ACTUALLY WE ALREADY OWN SO MUCH LAND, WE HAVE SO MANY FEDERAL PARKS, NATIONAL PARKS, THAT WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THEM AND WE'RE NOT TAKING CARE OF THEM. |
| 00:02:31 | THERE WAS A REPORT THAT INDICATED THAT JUST IN MAINTENANCE ALONE WE ARE $3. |
| 00:02:41 | 7 BILLION HELPED, ON JUST DOING NECESSARY MAPET NANCE TO KEEP THE FEDERAL PARKS -- MAINTENANCE FROM KEEPING THE FEDERAL PARKS FROM FALLING APART AND WE'RE NOT TAKING CARE OF THAT. |
| 00:02:56 | AND HERE WE VOTED $27 BILLION TO BUY MORE LAND FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SIT ON AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUYS ANY LAND AT ALL, THAT LAND IS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF OF THE TAX ROLLS AND THE SCHOOLS, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, THE STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE PROHIBITED FROM TAXING THAT LAND SO THAT LAND THAT HAS BROUGHT SO MUCH REVENUE IN TAXES TO THOSE SCHOOLS, HIRING TEACHERS, ALL THAT KIND OF THING, LOCAL SERVANTS, IT GOES AWAY. |
| 00:03:36 | AND WHEN THIS STARTED 100 YEARS-PLUS AGO, PEOPLE WERE ASSURED LOCALLY, DON'T WORRY, THOUGH, IF WE TAKE TIMBER LAND, WE'LL SELL TIMBER AND WE'LL GIVE YOU A CUT OF THE PROCEEDS. |
| 00:03:51 | WELL, THAT'S GONE AWAY. |
| 00:03:53 | AND SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKES LAND AND THE LOCAL FOLKS GET NOTHING. |
| 00:03:58 | SOME SAY, OH, NO, BUT IT CREATES GREEN JOBS. |
| 00:04:03 | RIGHT. |
| 00:04:04 | AND JUST LIKE SPAIN HAS FOUND THIS YEAR, AS THE REPORT OF THE COUNTRY THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THIS MAJORITY HAS SAID REPEAT LID WE WANT TO EMULATE BECAUSE -- REPEATEDLY WE WANT TO EMULATE BECAUSE THEY MOVED TOWARD A GREEN COMMERCIAL SPAIN HAS FOUND THAT FOR EVERY ONE GREEN JOB THAT'S BEEN CREATED THEY LOST TWO JOBS. |
| 00:04:34 | . I'M TIRED LOOKING INTO THE FACES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN BUT BY DECISIONS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT WERE ELECTED TO COME HERE TO WASHINGTON AND NOT MEDICAL, NOT TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY BUT JUST TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. |
| 00:04:59 | PEOPLE HAD OPPORTUNITY, NOT HAPPINESS, BUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE HAPPINESS. |
| 00:05:05 | AND WHAT WE FIND REPEATEDLY IS WHEN THIS GOVERNMENT, WHEN ANY GOVERNMENT WEIGHS IN, STEPS IN AND BUYS OR TAKES OVER LAND, MONEY, PROPERTY, IT DOESN'T LEAVE ANYBODY REALLY HAPPY. |
| 00:05:24 | SO GOT A LITTLE CHART HERE THAT WE PUT TOGETHER YESTERDAY THAT SHOWS WHERE WE HAVE BEEN ON MONEY THAT WAS APPROPRIATED IN THE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATED TO BUY LAND. |
| 00:05:43 | YOU GOT OVER $150 MILLION IN 2008 AND THAT IS WITH THIS MAJORITY. |
| 00:05:52 | THIS MAJORITY TOOK OVER IN 2007. |
| 00:05:55 | 2008. |
| 00:05:56 | AND THEY HAD ALREADY GONE MANY TIMES FROM WHERE WE WERE IN 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, BY 2008, THE MAJORITY STARTED GOING -- THAT'S HOW WE GOT OVER $100 MILLION TO BUY LAND IN 2008 AND IN 2009, KICKED IT UP A BIT MORE. |
| 00:06:21 | 2010, THIS YEAR, WE ARE APPROACHING $300 MILLION TO BUY MORE LAND FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SIT ON. |
| 00:06:32 | AND IN THIS BILL THAT PASSED COMMITTEE TODAY, THERE IS THIS PROVISION FOR $900 MILLION. |
| 00:06:43 | WHY DON'T WE CALL IT $1 BILLION. |
| 00:06:48 | YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THAT CLOSE. |
| 00:06:49 | DOESN'T SEEM LIKE $100 MILLION MEANS THAT MUCH, BUT $900 MILLION FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS TO BUY MORE LAND. |
| 00:07:02 | I HAD SUCH GREAT HOPES. |
| 00:07:03 | WE WERE HEARING FROM ECONOMISTS TELLING US THERE IS A WAY OUT OF THIS RUNAWAY DEFICIT. |
| 00:07:12 | $1.5 TRILLION IN ONE YEAR. |
| 00:07:14 | YOU KNOW, IT TOOK THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION A NUMBER OF YEARS TO DO THAT. |
| 00:07:21 | AND HERE, ONE YEAR, WE GOT IT DONE HERE WITH THIS MAJORITY AND THIS ADMINISTRATION. |
| 00:07:28 | BUT ECONOMISTS HAVE SAID, GET RESPONSIBLE. |
| 00:07:34 | QUIT SPENDING MONEY LIKE IT WAS NO ISSUE, LIKE IT'S GROWING ON TREES, BECAUSE IT'S GROWING OFF OF CHINA. |
| 00:07:43 | AND THEY'RE SAYING THEY'VE ABOUT HAD ENOUGH. |
| 00:07:48 | AND WE ARE PRINTING IT. |
| 00:07:51 | GOT PRINTING PRESSES RUNNING LIKE CRAZY AND WE'LL PAY FOR THAT WITH INFLATION. |
| 00:07:58 | AND SO THE VOTE TODAY WAS AS IF WE GOT ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. |
| 00:08:04 | WHY NOT JUST BUY MORE LAND. |
| 00:08:06 | AND WHAT WE HEARD FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY WAS, YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN SO MUCH OF OUR STATE, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP TAKING MORE AND MORE? |
| 00:08:21 | ONE CONGRESSMAN FROM UTAH, ROB BISHOP, HAD OFFERED A PROPOSAL, HOW ABOUT IF YOU'RE SO INCLINED TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY, HOW ABOUT IF WE JUST SAY, OK, WE WILL ONLY BUY LAND FROM NOW ON FROM STATES IN WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNS LESS THAN 20% OF THE STATE. |
| 00:08:51 | WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, THE RED REPRESENTS LAND OWNED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:09:04 | YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE IN THE WEST ARE SAYING, HAVEN'T YOU TAKEN ENOUGH OF OUR LAND? |
| 00:09:14 | THIS COUNTRY DIDN'T START OUT OWNING ALL THE LAND. |
| 00:09:21 | AND AS WE HAVE SEEN OVER AND OVER, WE AREN'T TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE GOT. |
| 00:09:26 | AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS. |
| 00:09:27 | AND YET LAST SUMMER, WE PASSED A BILL FOR $700 MILLION TO BUY WILD HORSES, MORE HABITAT, BECAUSE THERE HAD BEEN A BILL BEFORE THAT THAT THIS MAJORITY PASSED THAT SAID YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE OVERGROWING POPULATION OF WILD HORSES ON FEDERAL LAND. |
| 00:09:49 | YOU CAN'T USE BIRTH CONTROL. |
| 00:09:52 | YOU CAN'T SELL THEM OFF IN AUCTIONS. |
| 00:09:55 | SO THEY HAVE PRO LIVER ATED. |
| 00:10:00 | AND -- PROLIFERATED. |
| 00:10:01 | AT A TIME WHEN AMERICANS ARE BEING THROWN OUT OF THEIR HOMES THIS YEAR. |
| 00:10:07 | FORECLOSURES ARE UP EVER HIGHER THAN EVER BEFORE, BANKRUPTCY CONTINUE TO BE FILED, THE FOLKS IN CHARGE DECIDE, YOU KNOW WHAT? |
| 00:10:23 | LET'S TAKE CARE OF THE WILD HORSES. |
| 00:10:24 | THEY MATTER MORE TO US THAN ALL OF THESE PEOPLE GETTING THROWN OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND LOSING THEIR LIVELIHOOD. |
| 00:10:31 | THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT. |
| 00:10:33 | WE HAVE LOST OUR PRIORITIES. |
| 00:10:37 | AND I UNDERSTAND IT DIDN'T JUST START IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF. |
| 00:10:44 | PRESIDENT I ADMIRED GREATLY, SMARTER THAN MOST PEOPLE I GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR, GOOD MAN, HE LISTENED TO ONE OF THE WORST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURIES WE EVER HAD, HANK PAULSEN AS HE RAN AROUND LIKE CHICKEN LITTLE SAYING THE FINANCIAL SKY WAS FALLING, BUT GIVE ME $700 BILLION AND I COULD MAKE MY FRIENDS RICH AND I CAN FIX EVERYTHING. |
| 00:11:11 | GOLDMAN SACHS DIDN'T SUFFER. |
| 00:11:12 | A. |
| 00:11:15 | I.G. DIDN'T SUFFER. |
| 00:11:17 | AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. |
| 00:11:22 | AND I KNOW, AND I HEARD PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE, INCLUDING THIS WEEK, TALK ABOUT ALL THE RICH FAT CATS REPUBLICANS, YET IF YOU LOOK AT THE TRUTH, WHICH IS A GOOD THING TO LOOK AT FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU LOOK AT THE TRUTH AND YOU FIND OUT THAT WALL STREET FAMILIES GIVE TO DEMOCRATS FOUR TIMES AS MUCH AS THEY GIVE TO REPUBLICANS. |
| 00:11:47 | YOU LOOK AT B. |
| 00:11:48 | P. AND YOU WONDER WHY IT TOOK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SO LONG TO INTERVENE AND CALL THEIR HAND. |
| 00:11:54 | THEY REALLY HAVEN'T COMPLETELY YET. |
| 00:11:58 | AND YOU FIND OUT THEY GAVE MUCH MORE TO THIS ADMINISTRATION THAN THEY DID TO MCCAIN CAMPAIGN. |
| 00:12:05 | THEY GOT HEAVY ON DEMOCRATIC LOBBYISTS FROM ADMINISTRATIONS THAT WERE DEMOCRATIC. |
| 00:12:13 | THEY SIGNED ONTO THE CRAP AND TRADE BILL. |
| 00:12:17 | WE ARE PUSHING THAT TO BE PASSED. |
| 00:12:20 | SO THIS ADMINISTRATION, THIS MAJORITY DIDN'T WANT TO BUCK THEIR GOOD FRIEND THAT WAS GOING TO HELP THEM PUSH THROUGH SOME THINGS THAT WEREN'T GOING TO HELP AMERICA, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE GOING TO HELP B. |
| 00:12:32 | P. GET RICHER. |
| 00:12:35 | AND THAT'S WHY IT TOOK SO LONG. |
| 00:12:39 | AND WEAPON ARE FIXING IT BY BUYING MORE LAND FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:12:46 | HOW IN THE WORLD THAT MAKES SENSE? |
| 00:12:52 | NOW, WE ALSO HAD THE COMMITTEE VOTE AGAINST MY AMENDMENT THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT PROTECTING OUR HOMELAND. |
| 00:13:02 | MY AMENDMENT TO THE BILL WAS VERY SIMPLE AND IT ROSE OUT OF FINDING OUT DURING HEARINGS THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE ENTITY WITHIN THE MINES AND MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE THAT WAS ALLOWED TO BE UNIONIZED, AND THAT WAS THE OFFSHORE INSPECTORS -- UNIONIZED. |
| 00:13:27 | WELL, UNION CONTRACTS USUALLY HAVE RESTRICTIONS ON TRAVEL, RESTRICTIONS ON HOW MUCH THE COMMITTEE WORKED, THINGS LIKE THAT AND IT REMINDED ME OF THE JOB OF CENTURY AND MOCK WAR GAMES WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY, ONE SENTRY WASN'T ABOUT TO GO TO SLEEP. |
| 00:13:55 | ARTICLE 15 PUNISHMENT. |
| 00:13:56 | YOU ARE THE PROTECTION FOR THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THERE AND STANDING GUARD. |
| 00:14:00 | THAT'S WHAT OFFSHORE INSPECTORS ARE AND THEY ARE UNIONIZED AND TOLD BY THE DIRECTOR OF M. |
| 00:14:07 | M.S., THE REAL CHECK OF HOW WE CAN BE SO SURE, WE SEND THEM OUT IN PAIRS. |
| 00:14:14 | AND WE FOUND OUT THE LAST PAIR OF OFFSHORE INSPECTORS THAT WENT TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON RIG THAT BLEW WAS A FATHER AND SON TEAM. |
| 00:14:25 | YEAH, SO MUCH FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES. |
| 00:14:28 | THAT'S WHAT WE GOT. |
| 00:14:30 | SO MY AMENDMENT JUST SAID FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE OFFSHORE DEEPWATER RIG INSPECTORS, YOU CAN'T STRIKE AND YOU CAN'T THREATEN A STRIKE, JUST LIKE IF YOU ARE IN THE MILITARY, YOU CAN'T GO ON STRIKE. |
| 00:14:47 | YOU'RE PROTECTING THE COUNTRY. |
| 00:14:51 | OUR OFFSHORE INSPECTORS ARE WHAT STANDS BETWEEN OUR HOMELAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER AND THE LOSS OF LIVES AS WE HAD ON DEEPWATER HORIZON RIG. |
| 00:15:05 | AND ALL BUT ONE DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST MY AMENDMENT SO THAT OUR OFFSHORE INSPECTORS CAN STRIKE. |
| 00:15:19 | CAN GET OUT THERE ON A RIG AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? |
| 00:15:27 | I'M WHAT STANDS BETWEEN OUR HOMELAND AND DISASTER AND EITHER YOU GIVE ME WHAT I WANT OR I'M GOING ON STRIKE. |
| 00:15:38 | AND YOU'LL HAVE NO PROTECTION AND WHO KNOWS, YOU MAY HAVE ANOTHER DEEPWATER HORIZON HAPPEN BECAUSE I'M NOT CHECKING ANYTHING. |
| 00:15:47 | YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR CONTRACT, THEN GET YOUR CONGRESS, GET OTHERS TO HELP IF YOU'RE WORKING FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:15:56 | BUT IF YOU'RE NOT WORKING FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE AND YET AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE THE PROTECTION FOR OUR COUNTRY, YOU SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STRIKE. |
| 00:16:11 | AND IN THIS CASE, EVEN THOUGH M. |
| 00:16:17 | M.S. HAD BECOME BASICALLY, WE'RE TOLD A STAGNANT POND THAT STUNK IT UP BECAUSE OF THE COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED THERE AND BIG OIL, IT HAD TO BE DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS. |
| 00:16:36 | I TRIED TO FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS GOING TO BE UNIONIZED ONCE IT WAS SPLIT UP IN THREE PARTS AND WAS TOLD THEY DIDN'T KNOW. |
| 00:16:44 | DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW IT WAS ALL GOING TO COME OUT. |
| 00:16:48 | FROM EAST TEXAS, WE OFTEN FIND IF YOU WANT TO FIX A STAGNANT STINKING POND, IT DOESN'T HELP IF YOU DIED IT UP INTO THREE PARTS. |
| 00:17:00 | YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT, AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT HAPPEN. |
| 00:17:04 | AND, IN FACT, WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT A PERSON INVOLVED IN THE LEASES THAT MAY HAVE CRITICAL TESTIMONY AS TO WHY THE PRICE ADJUSTMENT LANGUAGE WAS PULLED OUT OF THE 1998, 1999 LEASES THAT HAS NOW COST THE FEDERAL TREASURY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, 1998, 1999 UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, WANTED TO KNOW THEY PULLED THAT LANGUAGE OUT. |
| 00:17:36 | IT MADE BILLIONS EXTRA FOR THE OIL COMPANIES, BUT COST OUR TREASURY BILLIONS, BECAUSE THAT LANGUAGE WAS NORMALLY IN THERE. |
| 00:17:44 | WHY DID THEY DICK INDICATE THAT IT BE PULLED OUT? |
| 00:17:48 | AND I WAS -- DICTATE THAT IT BE PULLED OUT. |
| 00:17:53 | WHY THEY PULLED THAT LANGUAGE OUT, BECAUSE THEY LEFT GOVERNMENT SERVICE. |
| 00:17:58 | WHEN THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION LEFT, THEY LEFT. |
| 00:18:01 | AND AFTER HEARING PRESIDENT OBAMA TALK ABOUT THE COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT MANAGING MINERALS AND BIG OIL, I HAD A HUNCH AND CHECKED AND SURE ENOUGH, ONE OF THE PERSONS, I WAS TOLD HAD BEEN INVOLVED AND HAD DIRECT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE BEING PULLED THAT COST US SO MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND MADE IT FOR COMPANIES LIKE B. |
| 00:18:38 | P. FOUND OUT SHE HAD GONE TO WORK FOR BRITISH PETROLEUM WHEN SHE LEFT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. |
| 00:18:43 | AND IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, SHE CAME BACK TO WORK FOR THE SAME PEOPLE THAT MANAGE THE AFFAIRS OF BRITISH PETROLEUM OFFSHORE. |
| 00:19:00 | . THE PRESIDENT KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. |
| 00:19:03 | HE HELPED CREATE A CAN COZY RELATIONSHIP TWEEP THOSE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO KEEP BIG OIL HOPPEST AND BIG OIL. |
| 00:19:10 | WE FOUND OUT -- HONEST AND BIG OIL. |
| 00:19:12 | WE FOUND OUT B. |
| 00:19:14 | P. HAD SAFETY VIOLATION UNDERSTAND THAT ADMINISTRATION DEALT WITH THOSE IN A STRONG WAY. |
| 00:19:18 | BY GIVING THEM A SAFETY AWARD FOR WONDERFUL SAFETY RECORD. |
| 00:19:24 | AND YET THEY WERE APPARENTLY THE ONLY COMPANY THAT HAD THAT KIPEDS OF HORRIBLE SAFETY RECORD -- KIND OF HORRIBLE SAFETY RECORD WHEN COMPARED WITH OTHERS WHO HAD ONE OR ZERO VIOLATIONS. |
| 00:19:34 | YOU WONDER, WHY WAS B. |
| 00:19:36 | P. ENTITLED TO A SAFETY AWARD AND THEN YOU FIND OUT WHO THEY GAVE MOST OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO IN THE ELECTION. |
| 00:19:44 | YOU FIND OUT THEY WERE GOING TO SUPPORT BILLS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WANTED PUSHED THROUGH, WHEN OTHER BIG OIL COMPANIES WOULD NOT. |
| 00:19:55 | SO YOU BEGIN TO PPEDS, THEY FELT BULLETPROOF -- UNDERSTAND, THEY FELT BULLETPROOF. |
| 00:19:58 | THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD SUCH GOOD FRIEND IN THED A STRACE AND THE MAJORITY -- IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE MAJORITY. |
| 00:20:07 | WHEN THE PUBLIC HEAT GOT HOT ENOUGH, THEY GOT THROWN UNDER THE BUSMENT AND HOW DID WE DEAL WITH WITH IT -- BUS. |
| 00:20:13 | AND HOW DID WE DEAL WITH IT TODAY? |
| 00:20:15 | WE PASSED A BILL THROUGH COMMITTEE TO APPROPRIATE $900 MILLION A YEAR FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS TO BUY MORE FEDERAL LAND. |
| 00:20:26 | I HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT HOW THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEM IN THE GULF. |
| 00:20:32 | AND IN FACT IT CREATES A WORSE PROBLEM BECAUSE AS WE'VE ALREADY SEEN FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION, THEY DO NOT LIKE TO LEASE LAND FOR DRILLING. |
| 00:20:45 | AND IN FACT IN THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION, SEVEN YEARS BEFORE THIS ADMINISTRATION TOOK OFFICE, A LEASING PROCESS WAS BEGUN TO LEASE LAND IN UTAH, WYOMING, COLORADO AREA, AND IT TOOK SEVEN YEARS TO GET TO THE POINT THAT COMPANIES WERE BEING POSITIONED TO MAKE A KNOWING BID AND THE BID COULD BE CHOSEN, THE HIGH BID, FOR THE LEASE. |
| 00:21:19 | THOSE LEASES AFTER THAT SEVEN YEARS WERE LET AT END OF 2008. |
| 00:21:24 | IMMEDIATELY SECRETARY SALAZAR CAME IN AND ORDERED THAT THE CHECKS NOT BE CASHED AND THEN ORDERED THAT THEY BE REPORTED, THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE LEASES THAT TOOK SEVEN YEARS TO COME INTO BEING TO EXIST BECAUSE THEY WERE DONE AT IN HIS WORDS, THE MIDNIGHT HOUR -- AT, IN HIS WORDS, THE M. |
| 00:21:45 | I.T. NIGHT HOUR. |
| 00:21:47 | FOR SEVEN YEARS -- AT THE MID KNIGHT HOUR. |
| 00:21:51 | FOR SEVEN YEARS -- MIDNIGHT HOUR. |
| 00:21:56 | THERE WAS THE OIL THAT WAS GOING TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR DEEP WATER DRILLING. |
| 00:21:59 | WE'VE SEEN THAT HAPPENING OVER AND OVER. |
| 00:22:02 | LAST YEAR, AS I PPEDS, THE SECOND MOST -- UNDERSTAND, THE SECOND MOST RICH DEPOSIT OF URANIUM WAS DECLARED OFF LIMITS, CAME THROUGH OUR COMMITTEE, THAT WAS A BILL WE VOTED OUT, TO PUT OUR SECOND HIGHEST, SECOND BEST SOURCE OF URANIUM OFF LIMITS. |
| 00:22:24 | AND THAT ALL AT A TIME WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS HOW TO GET OFF CARBON-BASED FUELS. |
| 00:22:34 | AND NUCLEAR SHOULD BE ONE OF THOSE WAYS THAT WE UTILIZE. |
| 00:22:37 | AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FIND OUT, AS WE HAVE IN OUR COMMITTEE, THAT 90% OF OUR URANIUM WE'RE USING IN OUR NUCLEAR PLAMENTS RIGHT NOW IS IMPORTED. |
| 00:22:50 | AND -- PLANTS RIGHT NOW IS IMPORTED AND YET WE HAVE URANIUM THAT CAN BE USED FOR THAT. |
| 00:22:54 | GOD HAS SO RICHLY BLESSED THIS COUNTRY WITH RESOURCES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM ALL INTO CONSIDERATION, LIKE NO NATION IN THE WORLD. |
| 00:23:05 | WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT WOULD PRODUCE ENERGY, NOBODY COMES CLOSE TO THIS LITTLE COUNTRY WHERE WE'VE HAD, UNTIL MORE RECENTLY, AN EXPERIMENT, AS THE FOUNDERS CALLED IT, IN A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, IN AN ELECTED RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:23:31 | -- REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:23:32 | AND WE APPROPRIATE $900 MILLION A YEAR FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS TO BUY LAPPED TO PUT MORE OF IT OFF -- LAND TO PUT MORE OF IT OFF LIMITS. |
| 00:23:38 | WE HEARD WHEN GASOLINE WENT TO $4 A GALLON THAT ACTUALLY THERE IS LAPPEDS ABOUT 500 SQUARE MILES -- LAND, ABOUT 500 SQUARE MILES IN THIS COUNTRY, WHERE WITHIN A 500-SQUARE-MILE AREA, FROM THE THICKER TAR SANDS, IF OIL IS $1,800 A BARREL, THEY CAN DO IT, MAKE MUST, PRODUCE MAYBE A TRILLION BARRELS OF OIL. |
| 00:24:07 | ALSO WE'VE HEARD THAT IN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, THERE MAY HOME BE ONE TRILLION TO THREE TRILLION BARRELS OF OIL AND YET SINCE THEN WE'VE HEARD THERE MAY BE THREE TRILLION TO FIVE TRILLION BARRELS OF OIL IN THAT SAME AREA, AS LONG AS OIL IS $80 A BARREL OR HIGHER. |
| 00:24:31 | WHEN YOU START REALIZING THAT, YOU SAY, WHY ARE WE NOT LIKE 90% EFFECTIVE IN PROVIDING ALL OUR OWN ENERGY? |
| 00:24:41 | WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO FUNDS PEOPLE THAT HATE US LIKE CHAVEZ AND COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHO ARE HARBORING TERRORISTS AND IN WHICH TERRORISTS ARE FARM-FED AND FARM-GROWN. |
| 00:24:57 | I MENTIONED YESTERDAY HERE ON THE FLOOR ABOUT YEMEN, I JUST WONDER HOW MANY NEW ENGLANDERS, HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN BOSTON KNOW THAT THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE GOTTEN RID OF THEIR CONTRACT FOR LIQUID NATURAL GAS, LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS, FROM AREAS THAT ARE VERY FRIENDSLY TO US, SOME IN THE CARIBBEAN -- FRIENDLY TO US, SOME IN THE CARIBBEAN, THAT'S BEEN DONE AWAY WITHA AND NOW CONTRACT FOR THE NEXT -- AWAY WITH AND NOW THE CONTRACT FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS IS WITH YENL. |
| 00:25:29 | I KNOW THERE ARE NICE FOLKS, THERE ARE NICE FOLKS FROM YEMEN, BUT THEY ALSO HAPPEN TO HARBOR TERRORISTS. |
| 00:25:36 | WHEN PEOPLE FROM GUANTANAMO WERE RELEASED TO YEMEN THEY ENDED UP GETTING AWAY AND THOSE TERRORISTS ARE AT LARGE, MAYBE BACK HERE IN THE UNITED STATES NOW. |
| 00:25:47 | AND ANOTHER THING, OF COURSE TODAY THAT OCCURRED IN ADDITION TO THIS MASSIVE APPROPRIATION, CAME OUT OF COMMITTEE, WE FIND OUT THE SENATE HAS VOTED TO SEPPEDS THE SO-CALLED FINANCIAL REFORM -- SEND THE SO-CALLED FINANCIAL REFORM BILL TO PRESIDENT FOR SIGNATURE TO BECOME LAW. |
| 00:26:07 | BREAK MICE HEART. |
| 00:26:08 | NOW, THERE'S SOME THINGS IN THERE THAT ARE GOOD REFORM RULES AND CHANGES THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. |
| 00:26:21 | BUT THERE ARE ALSO POISON PILLS IN THAT BILL. |
| 00:26:25 | FOR EXAMPLE, THE SYSTEMIC RISK COUNCIL IN WHICH WE HAVE SOME FEDERAL UNELECTED, UNCONFIRMED BY ANYBODY IN CONGRESS BUREAUCRATS WHO ARE GOING TO DECIDE WHAT BUSINESSES THEY DEEM TO BE A SYSTEMIC RISK AND THEREFORE BUSINESSES THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NEVER LET FAIL. |
| 00:27:00 | WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA? |
| 00:27:03 | WE USED TO BE THE LAND OF THE FREE. |
| 00:27:08 | BUT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT GETS TO PICK AND CHOOSE, WE'RE GOING TO LET YOUR BUSINESS BE THE ONE THAT LIVES BECAUSE NOBODY CAN COMPETE EFFECTIVELY WITH A BUSINESS THAT CAN RUN IN THE RED BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT LET THEM FAIL, BECAUSE THE OTHER BUSINESSES CAN'T RUN IN THE RED, THEY HAVE TO DECLARE BANKRUPTCY, SO WHAT USED TO BE THE LAND OF THE FREE HAS BECOME THE LAND OF THE GOVERNMENT'S HAND-PICKED WINNERS AND HAND-PICKED LOSERS. |
| 00:27:44 | WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE OPPORTUNITY TO SINK OR SWIM AS GOD HAS GIVEN US, AS WE'VE BEEN ENDOWED WITH OUR CREATOR BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NOW COME TO THE POINT WHERE IT'S KDED -- WRTS DECIDED, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU -- WHERE IT'S DECIDED, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU DECIDE WHO WINS BY HOW HARD YOU WORK AND HOW SMART YOU WORK, WE'RE GOING TO PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS WITH OUR SYSTEMIC RISK COUNCIL AND THERE ARE THINGS IN THERE, ONCE AGAIN, THEY'RE GOING TO CRIPPLE COMMUNITY BANKS WHO HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH BECAUSE OF THE GREED, IN SOME CASES AVE RUSS, DISPLAYED IN SOME OF THE INVESTMENT BANKS THAT NEARLY BOUGHT THE -- BROUGHT THE FINANCES TO STAND STILL. |
| 00:28:44 | COMMUNITY BANKS HAVE JUST BEEN LUMPED IN WITH THEM. |
| 00:28:46 | AND THEY'VE BEEN HURT BY THE REGULATORS AND IT IS TRAGIC. |
| 00:28:53 | SO MUCH FOR THE FINANCIAL DEFORM BILL BECAUSE IT DEFORMS THE MARKET THAT USED TO EXIST AND THIS GOVERNMENT HAS GOTTEN SO BUSY PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS AND MEDDLING AND TELLING CAR MAKERS WHAT KIND OF CARS TO MAKE AND EXACTLY WHAT THEY GOT TO DO TO MAKE THEM, HOW TO MAKE THEM QUHARKS THEY CAN DO TO MAKE THEM AND HOW THEY GOT TO BE WHEN THEY FINISH. |
| 00:29:21 | WE'VE GOTTEN SO BUSY GETTING INTO THE MA UNUSUALA OF THINGS THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE INVOLVED IN THAT THE GOVERNMENT -- WE HAVEN'T DIOP OUR JOBS BECAUSE IF WE HAD, THERE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SOMEBODY THAT WAS ABLE TO BILL PEOPLE OUT OF 50DS BILLION OF THEIR LIFE SAVINGS SO HE CAN SQUANDSER IT ON HIMSELF, THERE WERE PLENTY OF RED FLAGS THAT WENT UP, BUT WE WERE TOO BUSY AS A GOVERNMENT MEDDLING TO ACTUALLY DO THE JOB TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, EVERYBODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY AND PEOPLE ARE PLAYING FAIR. |
| 00:30:03 | AND WHEN THEY'RE NOT PLAYING FAIRLY WE PUNISH THEM. |
| 00:30:08 | THAT'S WHAT GOVERNMENT'S SUPPOSED TO DO AND IF AS THE FOUNDERS -- TO DO. |
| 00:30:15 | AND YOU SEE THAT AS THE FOUNDERS BELIEVED, GOVERNMENTS ARE OR DRAPED BY GOD AND IF YOU BELIEVE AS PHILOSOPHERS HAVE POINTED OUT THAT A DEMOCRACY ENSURES THAT A PEOPLE ARE GOVERNED NO BETTER THAN THEY DESERVE THEN YOU SEE THAT WE GET WHAT WE DESERVE AND SO FOR GENERATIONS THEY'VE BEEN DESERVING OF MORE OPPORTUNITY THAN THE LAST GENERATION BEFORE THEM AND NOW WE'VE COME TO A PLACE WHERE 70% OF ADULTS IN AMERICA WHEN POLLED SAY THEY DON'T BELIEVE THEIR CHIRP WILL HAVE AS GOOD A LIFE, AS GOOD OF OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY'VE HAD. |
| 00:31:05 | THAT HAS NEVER BEEN THE CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY THAT A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WOULD SAY THAT. |
| 00:31:15 | WE'VE LOST OUR WAY. |
| 00:31:19 | BUT, IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DETAINEES IN BEGAN TAP MOW, THERE'S GOOD NEWS. |
| 00:31:25 | YOU KNOW, WEEK BEEN RELEASING DETAINEES AND, LET'S SEE, THIS IS A REPORT FROM THIS YEAR, IT'S BELIEVED THAT ROUGHLY 20% OF THE 560 DETAPEES RELEASED FROM GUANTANAMO ARE BACK ON THE TERROR FRONTLINES. |
| 00:31:46 | INTERESTING, HUH? |
| 00:31:47 | BUT I REALLY LIKE THIS STORY ABOUT ABDULLAH MASUD. |
| 00:31:54 | HE CAME TO GUANTANAMO Q AS THE HOUSE PANEL WAS TOLD PREVIOUSLY, HE CAME TO US WITHOUT ONE LEG FROM ABOUT THE KNEE DOWN AND WE FITTED HIM WITH A PROSTHETIC LEG BEFORE HE LEFT WHILE HE WAS IN U. |
| 00:32:14 | S. CUSTODY. |
| 00:32:16 | SO THE LEG, THIS REPORT INDICATES, THE ARTICLE LIMB COST AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BETWEEN $50,000 AND $75,000 BUT IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND AFTER MASUD HAD DIRECTED A HOMICIDE ATTACK THAT KILLED 31 PEOPLE AND THEN TWO MONTHS LATER BLEW HIMSELF UP TO AVOID CAPTURE. |
| 00:32:49 | NOW, THAT WAS IN 2005 THAT HE CAME TO -- IT WAS IN 2005 HE'D BEEN RELEASED AND DID THAT. |
| 00:33:01 | SO YOU WOULD THINK THAT A SMALL ADMINISTRATION WOULD COME IN AND LEARN FROM MISTAKES OF PRIOR ADMINISTRATIONS. |
| 00:33:11 | WE HEARD FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE OVER HERE SAY OVER AND OVER YOU GOT TO STOP DEFICIT SPENDING. |
| 00:33:20 | FRIENDS ACROSS THE AISLE WON THE MAJORITY IN 2006 FOR THAT VERY REASON. |
| 00:33:27 | REPUBLICANS WERE DEFICIT SPENDING. |
| 00:33:29 | AND NOW BY A MARGIN OF ABOUT EIGHT OR 10-1 THAT'S BEEN INCREASED IN DEFICIT SPENDING FOR ONE YEAR. |
| 00:33:45 | EXTRAORDINARY. |
| 00:33:46 | THEN WE GET BACK TO THE ISSUE OF MORALITY BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT IT ALL COMES BACK TO. |
| 00:33:52 | AS CHUCK OLSON SAID PREVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU DEMAND THE MORALS OF WOODSTOCK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO EXPECT SOME COLUMBINES. |
| 00:34:03 | NOW, THINK ABOUT IT. |
| 00:34:05 | WHEN THE MORALITY THAT'S DEMANDED BY THOSE IN CHARGE IS ONE THAT SAYS IF IT FEELS GOD DO IT, THEN SOMEWHERE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME NUT THAT THINKS IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO FIND OUT HOW IT FEELS TO KILL PEOPLE. |
| 00:34:21 | MIGHT FEEL GOOD SO LET'S DO IT. |
| 00:34:23 | YOU CAN'T DEMAND THE MORALITY OF WOODSTOCK AND NOT EXPECT SOME TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES TO BE WROUGHT FROM THAT. |
| 00:34:35 | NOW, IT CAN ALSO BE POINTED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE LOSS OF LIFE OF THE UNBORN. |
| 00:34:41 | WE USED TO TALK IN TERMS OF OVER 40 MILLION ABORTIONS. |
| 00:34:47 | NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OVER 50 MILLION ABORTIONS. |
| 00:34:56 | SO WE GOT TO GET BACK TO A MORALITY THAT RECOGNIZES THERE'S SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN OURSELVES AND IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:35:09 | IT IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN UNDO YOUED BY OUR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS AND THOSE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. |
| 00:35:19 | AND UNLESS WE'RE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR OUR ENDOWMENT, TO FIGHT FOR OUR INHERITNESS, THEN AS SO MANY GENERATIONS AND SO MANY COUNTRIES BEFORE US WE LOSE THAT FOR WHICH SO MANY PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE. |
| 00:35:38 | NOW, MR. SPEAKER, I WAS INFORMED THAT THERE IS A BILL THAT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN UP AT THIS TIME. |
| 00:35:51 | THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE THE FOLLOWING ENROLLED BILL. |
| 00:35:57 | THE CLERK: H.R. 4173, AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FINANCIAL REGULATORY REFORM TO PROTECT CONSUMERS AND INVESTORS, TO ENHANCE FEDERAL UNDERSTANDING OF INSURANCE ISSUES, TO REGULATE OVER-THE-COUNTER DERIVATIVES MARKETS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. |
| 00:36:15 | THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. |
| 00:36:18 | MR. GOHMERT: THANK YOU, MR. |
| 00:36:19 | SPEAKER. |
| 00:36:20 | RECLAIMING MY TIME. |
| 00:36:25 | WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION AS A GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THOSE WHO HAVE |
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