[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 165 (Thursday, November 17, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H6291-H6296]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                           TIME TO LOOK AHEAD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Curbelo of Florida). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of January 6, 2015, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Gohmert) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority 
leader.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor and a pleasure to be in this 
somewhat hallowed Hall.
  The election is behind us. It is time to look ahead. But as everyone 
who studies history knows, those who fail to learn from history are 
destined to repeat it. And so we go.
  We continue too often to repeat the mistakes of the past, but it 
looks like the American people wanted a change--quite a change--and I 
know there are calls that we get rid of the electoral college, but when 
one looks at the map of the United States district-by-district within 
the States that voted for the different parties, candidates, one sees 
very clearly that you have the big cities that were voting Democrat and 
the 90 percent or so of the rest of the country voted Republican. It 
really is amazing to see just how distinctive that has become.
  South Texas is not highly populated, but is blue. Otherwise, most of 
the country that voted Democrat is just large cities, many of which are 
failing, many of which have become sanctuary cities, many of which have 
high crime rates. So I was a bit encouraged to continue to hear 
statements made by President-elect Trump.
  There is an article today--with regard to the government, that is--
from The Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard: ``$42 billion in Obama 
regulations are on Trump's chopping block. Nearly 50 massive and costly 
regulations that cost Americans and businesses 53 million more hours 
filing paperwork and that have already put a $42 billion hit on the 
U.S. economy are being teed up for President-elect Trump to cut in his 
first weeks in office.''
  And you go through and you look and top on the list are Head Start 
performance standards. Really, education was doing pretty well in my 
home State. Back before President Carter created the Department of 
Education, between 70 and 75 percent of all employees in the education 
system in Texas were teachers; but when you create this big bureaucracy 
called the Department of Education, it means for every cubicle we put 
here in Washington, D.C., just down the street here at the Department 
of Education, every State has to hire additional people to work in 
cubicles. But some States are more generous than others. Some have very 
nice offices.
  But then, for every bureaucrat you put in a State capital office that 
is going to respond to the bureaucrats in the Department of Education 
here, you have to have additional clerical help, administrative help in 
each individual school district. That is people that could be helping 
our children. That is people that could be making students brighter 
than any other students.
  But what are they doing?
  They are filling out mountains of paperwork to send to the State 
capital so they can fill out mountains of paperwork and send it to the 
Department of Education.
  To see that just one item within the Department of Education could 
cut $42 billion in Obama regulations is incredible. At a time when we 
have skyrocketed over the last 7-plus years from $11 billion in debt to 
$20 billion in debt, it is just incredible. Incredible. Yet, there is 
so much we are costing America.
  I am excited about the coming year because the kind of things that 
are listed here is just government overregulation; government 
bureaucrats from here overregulating. I know most people are proud when 
they set new all-time records, which this administration did in new 
regulations for the years with regard to pages of regulations. I think 
it seems like the Bush administration may have hit 74,000 pages or so 
one year, but that didn't create a problem for the Obama 
administration. They have blown right past 74,000 pages of regulations.
  How is anyone in business in the United States supposed to stay in 
business if they have to go through 74,000 pages of new regulations in 
addition to the old regulations that may still be in effect?
  It is incredible. Like the Heritage Foundation has pointed out, more 
persons are committing three or four Federal crimes every day because 
we don't know what all the regulations are.
  I am very encouraged as we go into the new year that one of the 
things we want to accomplish--and Chairman Goodlatte in the Judiciary 
Committee has it on his list of things to get done--is really address 
the overcriminalization that has occurred over all these years. You 
slap a prison sentence on some vague crime or on some vague statute 
that says it is a crime if you violate any of the laws or regulations, 
and then bureaucrats sit around and dream up things that annoy them, 
and all of a sudden somebody can be going to prison for things none of 
us knew were crimes.
  One guy did know that a substance he was sending through the mail, 
since he was a scientist, required ground only. So he checked the box 
``ground only.'' He didn't know that some bureaucrat had passed or 
created a regulation that said not only do you check the box, you have 
to put a little ticker with an airplane with a red line through it. And 
if you don't do that, you get arrested, drug to Alaska, where he was 
sending it--he didn't even live there, didn't have friends--and held up 
there for 18 months or so, I think. It is incredible. We have got to do 
right by the American people.
  I have been blessed to be able to travel all over the country in the 
past year or so. And everywhere I go, it just seems like the economy is 
ready to take off. If we can just get this massive, oppressive 
bureaucracy in Washington off of the neck of the economy, people will 
start having jobs again.
  I know some people are worried about the wall or fence, but as you 
see people out of work--some of them being paid, apparently, to riot or 
picket, the things they do. I remember one picketer out here on The 
Mall back during the shutdown said he was getting $15 an hour from 
Democratic sources to picket out there at the World War II Monument. 
Some of them get paid. Maybe that is all the work they can find.
  Well, how great would it be to take that picket sign out of their 
hand and say: My friend, we have productive work for you. You can help 
your country, you can help yourself by cutting down on potential 
terrorism coming across other southern border, by cutting down on 
people coming into the country illegally and getting welfare, food 
stamps, all these benefits that

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other Americans will have to pay for those who are here illegally. You 
can take this trowel, take this mortar, and go over to that brick pile 
by our border and just start helping us build the wall. We will pay you 
to do that.
  I don't know, if they get $15 an hour to come picket in Washington, 
they may want $16 or $17 to help build the wall or the fence down on 
our border, but we have certainly got plenty of people that can work, 
because you see them in the streets all over the country. They have 
come out of their safe spaces where their feelings were hurt because 
things didn't go like they wanted and nobody has told them, as my late 
mother, brilliant as she was, used to say: Well, nothing is fair, and 
the quicker you get used to it, the better off you will be.
  I would contend--and she would roll her eyes--yeah, but we can take 
care of our own little part to make it more fair. And that is what we 
are supposed to do. If things are not fair, then you get involved in 
government and you try to fix it.
  That is why I came to Washington. I saw that things weren't fair up 
here, that the Federal Government was luring people away from their 
God-given potential. I kept having young women come before me as a 
felony judge in Texas for welfare fraud. And the cases were nearly 
identical. They pour out their hearts, lay out their situation. They 
were bored with high school and somebody said: Well, the Federal 
Government will send you a check if you just drop out and have a baby. 
Then they find out after they have the child: I can't really live on 
this little bit. This is not enough to live on. So they have another 
child and another child. These are just the ones that came to my court, 
but I would imagine that there are other situations just like this all 
over the country.
  When I was teaching a joint sociology class at a predominantly 
African American school back in Tyler, Texas--a great school that has 
done so much good for so many--Texas College--but there were women 
there probably in their late twenties, and when we started talking 
about this, I was blown away with the intellectual level of these women 
and their commitment that we have to fix our Federal system that is 
destroying people and their potential.
  One lady in her older twenties, God bless her, she came back. She 
decided: I have had kids. I have been in debt. I am going to improve 
myself. I mean, that is the American Dream. That is what we hope for. 
She said, You have got to put that work requirement in and you have got 
to make it more forceful.
  Another lady said: You have got to put drug tests on there. Man, I 
was spending my money I was getting from the government not so much for 
my kid, but for my drugs. You need to have a drug test. Don't just give 
people money like that. You are ruining them.
  I am hearing people across the country that have figured out this 
massive welfare state that was created with the best of intentions in 
the mid-sixties has done more to pull people away from their God-given 
potential and put them into ruts or ditches from which they couldn't 
get out of.
  Yet, that is not supposed to ever be the role of government, whether 
you look to Biblical scripture, like I do. In Romans 13, the government 
is supposed to be an encourager of good conduct, help people, encourage 
them, direct them to reach their potential. Don't lure them away from 
their potential and make them beholden to this big master government. 
Encourage them. We need a safety net here and there, but encourage 
them. The sky is the limit and get out of the way.
  Like Edison said, I didn't fail however many hundreds of thousands of 
times. I tried to find the filament that would make a light bulb work. 
He didn't fail all those times. He just found that many ways that would 
not work in a light bulb, then he found the one that would. You 
encourage people to try. Failure shouldn't necessarily be a trophy, but 
it ought to get a slap on the back, Come on, you can keep going. You 
can do it.

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  The government should not lure people away from trying. It was never 
intended to be anything but a safety net so you could rebound and get 
back on your feet. Instead, we take people off their feet and lead them 
away from being productive in the country for themselves.
  I have mentioned this before, but I, as a freshman here in Congress, 
12 years ago, went to a conference at Harvard. One of the speakers, the 
dean there--I was surprised, dean at Harvard Business School--had these 
charts, and he showed single mothers' income in the United States, when 
adjusted for inflation, from the creation of welfare until welfare 
reform, from the mid-sixties to mid-nineties when Newt Gingrich and 
Republicans took the Congress in January 1995, did welfare reform. I 
know President Clinton now takes credit for it, but he vetoed it. It 
wasn't until they had enough votes, basically, to override his veto 
that they finally got him on board, and now he likes to take credit for 
it. It was the Republicans that drove them there.
  He likes to take credit for the balanced budget. He vetoed numerous 
things that would have made it balance, and once they had the votes 
that would override his veto, he would sign them, and we got to a 
balanced budget back in the late nineties.
  But that is what we are going to have to do come January, and we 
can't give away the farm when we come back. I am encouraged today to 
hear our Speaker and leader talking about what we are going to be 
doing. And wow, isn't it wonderful that now that Donald Trump is the 
President-elect, Republican leadership is now saying: You know what we 
are going to do is we need to take care of the military so we don't 
suffer there any more than we already have for 8 years. But maybe get 
that done for the rest of the year and then, basically, have a 
continuing resolution that gets us out maybe to March so that we can 
come in with the Congress the people of the United States have said 
they now want making the decisions. That makes sense. They have spoken: 
Let's let that Congress make the big calls then with the new President 
when he comes in in January.
  What is so great about that is some of us were talking about that 
back in September, and then we were told no, no; we have got to do it 
for the whole year, and we are going to have to add this and that. We 
can't just go to March because that will destroy the military. We have 
got to do everything for the whole year.
  A new President is elected named Trump, and all of a sudden, hey, 
let's just go to March. Sounds great to me. That sounds like a good 
idea. I would have been willing to do that in September as we were 
talking about then. It wasn't acceptable then. I am glad it is 
acceptable now for a new Congress.
  And when we talk about problems in the United States, our military 
has been deflated back to a pre-World War II position. We were not a 
superpower after World War I. We weren't the main defender of truth, 
justice, freedom.
  But as you travel around the world, like I have mentioned, in Africa, 
where Africans were saying, you know: We were so excited when you 
elected your first Black President, but since he has been in office, we 
have seen America get weaker and weaker. And you have got to go back to 
Washington and tell those people there to stop getting weaker.
  This was a group of African Christians. They said, you know: We all 
know where we are going when we die, but our only chance for peace in 
this life is if America is strong.
  Now, the world, so many countries like to deride us and take verbal 
shots. Some take other kinds of shots. But some like to fly planes 
closely, mocking our ships, and I am looking forward to that happening 
under President Trump. I suspect if it happens, it probably won't 
happen more than once, and they will learn not to mess with us.
  So it will be nice to have a reputation: You are not going to 
continue to bully the world. While this administration likes to talk 
about bullies in elementary school and send--they like to see little 
kids who were bullies in elementary school arrested, threatened.
  Well, I was a little bitty kid, and one of my best friends from 
elementary school was here yesterday. We were talking about old times. 
He and I were the same little bitty runt size, so we got picked on a 
lot. But we didn't want anybody to come get arrested, and we figured 
out ways that we made sure the biggest bully never bothered us again.

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  But to give an elementary school kid an arrest, drag them in for 
being a bully? I mean, kids have to grow up, and that is why we are 
called adults. We are supposed to have learned and supposed to 
understand kids will be kids.
  Foolishness can be found in the heart of a child. But some say maybe 
Proverbs is encouraging a crime when it says: but the rod can drive it 
far from them. Nobody wants a child to be abused, but I know most of my 
friends in school, we got paddled at one time or another.
  I had friends I played football with, whether it was freshman year, 
junior varsity, or varsity, that if they had not been paddled, I had no 
doubt they were headed for prison. But they had coaches that cared 
about them. They didn't just want to win as coaches. They wanted these 
kids to be good adults, so they used discipline. We had some troubled 
folks after high school, but the coaches saved a lot of kids by caring.
  I mentioned before that I had some coaches that I loved, and they are 
more like friends, even though they were adults. My favorite year, my 
favorite coach was Willie Williams.
  It was interesting, you know. Conservatives are called bigots all the 
time. First time I mentioned that here in Washington, that my favorite 
high school coach was--happened to be Black, and I never noticed any 
racial problems on that team because he was rough on all of us. He was 
a very smart man, too, good coach.
  I love Coach Williams, and it was my great honor to be invited back 
to my hometown a couple of weeks ago when Mount Pleasant was playing 
Greenville. Greenville is a lot bigger city. Mount Pleasant had won two 
games.

  Coach Williams is now retired, but I was told Coach Williams was up 
in the press box, that he did some of the calling color for the games. 
There were so many thrills there, getting to know the kids and being 
with the team on the sideline and rejoicing at good plays. But they 
won. Apparently, it was the best game they played. Those kids have a 
lot of potential they didn't realize, but they gave me the game ball.
  Just so many things that thrilled me there, my hometown where I grew 
up, Mount Pleasant, but nothing more than when I got to hug Coach 
Williams up there at the press box. That was special.
  Although he is substantially older now and gray--and, fortunately, 
his memory has not waned at all--Coach Williams remarked: You had a 
great team, but it wasn't because you had good talent--that's how I 
know his memory had not failed him--but you guys played so well 
together. You gave it everything. You played well together, and that is 
how you were a winning team.
  I really had hopes that that is what would happen. I didn't support 
Barack Obama for President, but I really had hopes that we would be 
brought together as never before, just the way Coach Williams brought 
us together on that football team.
  I thought it was rather ironic, one of the liberal press immediately 
did a story on my favorite basketball coach in high school. Apparently, 
they figured, since they are liberal, well, he is Black, so I guess 
Blacks are only good at basketball, so he must have been his basketball 
coach. He was my football coach, JV football coach before I went to 
varsity the next year. But, ironic, who is the more bigoted, I wonder. 
But, nonetheless, it wasn't like our team under Coach Williams. We have 
become a very divided country.
  In this article from FOX News, Dakota Wood, just this week, points 
out our military is no longer large enough, strong enough, or modern 
enough to keep America safe, and that is why China is making moves in 
the South Sea. It is why Russia is rattling sabers and looking around 
them if they should possibly move before a more authoritative 
President, a more decisive President like President-elect Trump, comes 
into office. So I think the world is scared for the next couple of 
months.
  Are these countries like Iran, Russia, China, are they going to try 
to make a move in the next 2 months because they know this President 
may send some rockets or something, may send a SEAL team, but they are 
not going to really be final-type activities to really send a message. 
So we will see. Hopefully, the threat of President Trump coming in 
January will be sufficient to keep Iran from trying to make a move on 
Mecca, Russia from trying to make a move on Georgia, Ukraine, Crimea--
Crimea being part of Ukraine, of course, should be--but remains to be 
seen.
  And then after all of the trauma that has been created by--I just 
can't call it the Affordable Care Act because it is so costly. But the 
President was proud that it was called ObamaCare initially, and so that 
is a better term. People know what it means immediately, know what we 
are talking about.
  But this article from the Washington Free Beacon, Ali Meyer, says 
one-third of adults went without health care due to expensive costs. We 
were doing so much better. Most of the people I hear from in my 
district, over 700,000 people, were doing a lot better under--before 
ObamaCare kicked in. They are not going to be able to afford health 
care next year. That was one of the reasons that 90 percent of the 
geographical U.S. voted to change parties as President because they 
have seen the suffering they have had because their health care has 
suffered.
  This article says one-third of adults in the U.S. went without 
recommended health care due to expensive costs, according to a 
Commonwealth Fund survey. The survey actually was conducted in 11 
countries--the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the 
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United 
Kingdom--and this was all within this year, from March to June of this 
year, and that is what we find. A third of Americans, now that we have 
been under ObamaCare for 6 years, have really felt the pinch, and some 
have felt it to their demise or detriment.
  Another article from Elizabeth Harrington, ObamaCare premiums are to 
increase 27 percent. It points out that a new study obtained by the 
Washington Free Beacon shows premium increases under ObamaCare will 
actually be higher than the Federal Government's projections, and it 
points out they will increase by 27 percent, according to the American 
Action Forum.

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  It points out that the Department of Health and Human Services 
announced last month that premiums would increase an average of 22 
percent in 2017. But premiums will actually increase as much as 145 
percent in some States.
  ``The American Action Forum found that the average increase is likely 
to be higher than predicted because the agency did not factor in that 
nearly half of ObamaCare plans no longer exist, forcing enrollees to 
switch to costlier plans,'' if they have them at all.
  Then we have this from Lana Shadwick: ``DHS Sued for Ignoring 
Environmental Effects of Mass Immigration.'' There is so much damage 
that has come from our border not being secured. I heard one of my 
friends across the aisle say just this week in the press that our 
southern border is secure and that Mr. Trump should come down and see 
it. Mr. Trump has come down and seen it, and I have been down there 
many times.
  To be on the border as I was just in the last month, recent months, 
out there on the Rio Grande, it is pretty wide, and yet that is still 
where so many thousands and thousands and thousands cross. At 2, 3 in 
the morning, we were on a Texas Department of Public Safety boat 
because Texas, though they are not authorized by the Supreme Court to 
defend our borders, they are authorized under the Texas Constitution 
and required to protect our State. They spent millions of dollars. They 
have these fantastic boats. We had night vision on the boat. They have 
thermotechnology. They could see where people were hiding and what they 
were hiding behind. They have other technology. When they would see 
people, they would radio it to the Border Patrol. There were agents on 
the U.S. side along the riverbank, and we reported some in. We went 
down, turned off the engine and sat there for an hour or so.
  Finally, the U.S. Border Patrol asked if we would go back to the dock 
because those people that we had been watching, they were watching with 
their technology, and they weren't going to move. They knew our boats 
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  I thought that meant they were saying they know you are in the area 
so they are not going to make a move. We can't catch them redhanded 
until you make a move. I thought that meant they would interdict and 
protect the homeland. No. Homeland security doesn't protect the 
homeland. No. What they were saying is: We want you to get out of the 
way because there are people--oh, and then there were some we could see 
were clearly carrying stuff that was probably drugs. There were only 
two or three in those groups of people who were carrying drugs. There 
were 17 or 18 groups like that would be wanting to come across, and it 
didn't look like they were carrying anything, maybe they had a raft.
  So it turned out we leave, and we get radio transmission from Border 
Patrol: Okay, all of those folks who you had spotted, they have now all 
come across when you left the area, and we have got all of those in the 
big groups. But we didn't get those who were probably bringing in 
drugs, but we put somebody out at an intersection. They are going to 
watch for them.
  These people are not stupid. They knew the intersection they put them 
in. They weren't going through that intersection.
  If I had had any idea that our boat leaving that area of the river, 
the Rio Grande, was going to cause President Obama's Border Patrol to 
not protect our homeland but to keep welcoming drug dealers, massive 
drugs, and lots of folks we don't know what diseases they have--we 
don't know if there were any terrorists in there. We don't really know 
who they are. They don't carry proper identification. I have seen that 
time and time and time again on our border in the middle of the night. 
They are not carrying.
  I watched two guys. They looked at their own little xeroxed piece of 
paper they use for identification, and if they didn't like it, they 
switched.
  What kind of identification is that?
  It is a little piece of paper, it had some English on it, and they 
switched. They didn't like the identity they were bringing in. We don't 
know who these people were.
  So it will be nice come next year to know that our Border Patrol--and 
they are frustrated, I know. Most of them really have wanted to do 
their jobs. I hear from them. They are so tired of watching their 
homeland be assaulted. It just goes on and on, a wave every night, and 
we are not protecting our homeland.
  We are supposed to protect this place against all enemies foreign and 
domestic. Some of those folks aren't enemies. They want to come in for 
jobs. Some want to come in for welfare. Some want to come in for food 
stamps. Some want to come in, but they have made commitments through 
the drug cartels that pay the coyotes to bring them across.
  I have been out there at night when they have said: Well, no, I 
didn't have $7,000, but they are going to let me work it off in the 
city I am going to.
  How do they work it off in those cities for the drug cartels?
  They help them spread poison to American young people. They are 
bringing poison into our country. They come in with good motivation--
wanting jobs, wanting a better life. Yet we have allowed such a massive 
insurgence into this country. We need to take some kind of pause and 
kind of figure out who in the world is in this country. We know from 
FBI Director Comey--such as his testimony is worth--that there are 
terrorist cells in every State, and that they are investigating every 
State. So we need to figure out who all have we let in here. In the 
last 8 years--and, yes, it was going on during the Bush administration, 
but nothing like it has just amassed in the last 8 years. We have to 
figure out who is here. Even this administration had no idea who they 
have let in.
  Then when you see the article that indicates that the number of those 
wrongly given citizenship is much higher than initially reported--and 
this is from Jake Tapper with CNN--that the number of individuals who 
were supposed to have been deported but instead were granted 
citizenship is far higher than was initially reported by the media 
covering homeland security. This is from September: ``On Monday, the 
Inspector General reported that 858 individuals from `special interest 
countries'--meaning countries that are considered to be `of concern to 
the national security of the United States'--were supposed to have been 
deported but were instead granted U.S. citizenship.

  ``But the truth is the report is even worse than reported, with more 
than 1,800 individuals naturalized who should have been deported from 
the country.
  ``A reason for the underplaying of the number may have been the 
report's focus, which was whether the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services was using digital fingerprints effectively.''
  So it goes on to say that there might be 1,000 more--953 more--that 
they didn't realize they were supposed to deport because they are 
probably going to kill people and create havoc here. With all the 
rhetoric we have heard over and over, we don't need a fence, we don't 
need a wall, this campaign you don't need any fence or wall down on our 
border.
  WikiLeaks--and who knows where this stuff is coming from, but I never 
did hear outright denials to: Well, we are not sure where that is 
coming from.
  Yeah, but they are saying this was your email. Did you send this 
email?
  I just didn't hear people denying the facts that were in what was 
released.
  Anyway, they leaked an internal memo from Barack Obama's 2008 
campaign, and it made very clear that then-Senator Obama believed that 
fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border could help cut down on illegal 
immigration. Of course, once he is in office, we hear his surrogate, 
Janet Napolitano, saying that if you build a 10-foot wall, then they 
will build a 12-foot ladder.
  So what do they do?
  They build a 10-foot fence around the White House. After she made fun 
of a 10-foot fence, they built a 10-foot fence to make it higher around 
the White House.
  I ask: Does that fence work? Because if it works, then we need to 
have something like that down on our border. If it doesn't work, then 
let's remove the fence from around the White House. But the Obama 
administration, though they clamored that fences would do no good, made 
their fence even stronger, bigger, taller, and more secure around the 
White House.
  So I know they said that fences didn't work, but their actions said 
pretty clearly: Yes, we know they work. That is why we are fixing ours 
up around the White House.
  In my own home county, November was a very, very sad time. A 10-year-
old little girl, Kayla, was finally found as friends around the country 
were texting, emailing, and praying for Kayla. They finally found 10-
year-old Kayla. Our Smith County sheriff, Larry Smith, reported that 
Kayla's body was found in a well next to a home rented by her relative 
4 days after her disappearance. The Sheriff said: ``We assure you there 
will be no stone unturned as we enter the next phase of this 
investigation.''
  That is what they did. They arrested Gustavo Zavala-Garcia. He was in 
the country illegally. He had been deported for a violent crime in 
2014, but because this Federal Government refused to protect the United 
States of America from all enemies foreign, this guy comes back in and 
killed Kayla. That is the charge.
  We have seen this across the country. I know President-elect Trump 
has said he is going to do something about it, and, God help us, he 
needs to. In government we have a job. As an individual Christian, I am 
supposed to turn the other cheek; but when I am acting in the role of 
the government, my job is to make sure those who have religious beliefs 
can practice and keep their religious beliefs without worrying about 
some guy who has been deported five times coming in and shooting them.
  If we find here in Congress that the executive branch is not doing 
what they should, then we cut off the money. That is what is supposed 
to happen. Cut off the money to those who aren't doing the job and send 
it over to people that are doing the job. If nobody is doing the job, 
then create another department and eliminate that department, and get 
somebody until you do protect the country.
  There are so many across this country that are suffering and mourning 
the loss because the Federal Government did not protect them from some

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immigrant who was a criminal who was deported. We don't protect our 
borders. They came back, they killed, raped, and pillaged yet again.
  Then there are those who say: Well, let's just go ahead and do a 
complete amnesty.
  This report is from Robert Rector, a brilliant guy from the National 
Academy of Sciences. He says: ``The findings in the report indicate 
that if amnesty for illegal immigrants were enacted, the government 
would have to raise taxes immediately by $1.29 trillion and put that 
sum into a high-yield bank account to cover future fiscal losses 
generated by the amnesty recipients and their children.
  ``To cover the future cost, each U.S. household currently paying 
federal income tax would have to pay, on average, an immediate lump sum 
of over $15,000.''
  Wouldn't it be better to just enforce our borders?
  Nobody lets in legally as many as we do in the United States. I don't 
know a single person in this Congress that is a xenophobe, whatever 
kind of phobe, but we want to do our job. There is an obligation to 
make sure that the over 1 million visas--more than any country in the 
world--that are handed out by your United States Government go to 
people that are not going to be a threat but are to be a blessing to 
this country.
  The U.N. General Secretary--the new one that just came in--said over 
a year ago that the reason there is such a tiny fraction of a fraction 
of Christians who are being brought out of the Middle East as refugees 
is because they are so historically important right where they are. We 
have already recognized there is a genocide of Christians going on 
right now in the Middle East.
  So what do we do with the Christians?
  The government said: Well, we want to leave most of them there. We 
like what the U.N. says. Let's leave them over there to be wiped out in 
a genocide of Christians.

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  I am saying, Mr. Speaker, there will be a price to pay someday by 
this country for our callousness to Christians and Jews in the Middle 
East that have cried out for help. Instead of helping them, we have 
welcomed those who have tortured and created a living hell for them.
  And one from September 10: ``Suspect in Brutal Maryland Murder 
Deported Twice.''
  ``Austin Sex Assault Suspect Previously Deported Five Times.''
  Then this administration has sent billions of dollars, a lot of it 
cash--load up those pallets, put them on a plane, and send them to our 
enemy Iran. And we find out there was an IAEA report indicating that 
Iran had continued to violate the Iran executive agreement. It is 
really a treaty, but the Senate never confirmed it, never ratified it, 
so it can be wiped out as soon as Trump goes in. I know I saw a 
headline he doesn't think he will do that. I suggest he needs to do 
that. It was a rotten deal. There will be a lot of people in the Middle 
East and around the world, including America, who will die because this 
administration sent billions of dollars to Iran, a big hunk of it just 
pure cash.
  This article says: ``Iran Pressuring Palestinian Jihadists to Resume 
Terrorism Against Israel.'' But they didn't just do terrorism against 
Israel. They love to kill and do harm to Americans.
  It is time we stood up to our oath and protected this place, 
protected our Constitution, our way of life, against all enemies, 
foreign and domestic. That is basically the oath I took when I went on 
Active Duty in the Army. We didn't know if we were going to be sent. We 
weren't sent anywhere. We were put on alert in 1979 when an act of war 
occurred in Iran, but President Carter wouldn't defend our people. He 
tried way too late and way too weakly to rescue.
  But even a successful rescue would have told the world we don't have 
a leader in America that will protect the American people because, if 
you harm us, then we will come back and get out of your country, but we 
will leave you alone. I mean, this was President Carter that called 
Ayatollah Khomeini--the biggest radical Islamist terrorist in modern 
history--a man of peace when he was welcoming him to the power of an 
entire country and its military.
  Radical Islamic caliphate had been out of business for many years, 
and Carter opened the box. Once Pandora's box was open, many thousands 
and thousands of our American military would die in the days to come 
because of it, not just military. But when a Taliban--radical Islamist 
terrorists--in Afghanistan get control of the country, there is going 
to be terrorism spread around the world. That is what happened. When a 
radical Islamic terrorist becomes the head of Iran, there is going to 
be terrorism spread around the world, and that happened.
  Now, this: ``Leaked FBI Data Reveal 7,700 Terrorist Encounters in USA 
in One Year; Border States Most Targeted.''
  But Andrew McCarthy, a dear friend, wrote a great article: 
``Deadliest Lie: Without `Lone Wolf' Lie, U.S. Could Have Stopped 
Nearly Every Attack.'' As my friend Patrick Poole has said, there are 
no lone wolves, there are known wolves.
  Each time we find out these people were on the radar of the FBI, of 
law enforcement, and they didn't know how to recognize a radical 
Islamist. So I hope and pray that, as a new administration comes in, we 
will finally put the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and any of the groups 
with which it works, on a terrorist watch list. Stop them from giving 
advice to the State Department, the White House, the Justice 
Department, Homeland Security. Stop allowing them to come in and review 
material and tell us what we have to remove from our training material 
so that next time Russia says there is a Tsarnaev brother that has been 
radicalized and he is going to kill people, the FBI agents who want to 
stop terrorism will actually recognize it because they have been 
properly trained to do so instead of being treated with some 
politically correct garbage that keeps them from recognizing what a 
real radical Islamist is. You have got to know what they are reading. 
You have got to know what their beliefs are.
  When I talked to the FBI agent whose material was completely 
eliminated for a time because, apparently, CAIR, named as a 
coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, 
was bothered by some of that stuff, when I asked the FBI Director at 
that time, Mueller, ``You didn't even go to the mosques where the 
Tsarnaevs went and ask questions--What are they reading? What are they 
learning? What are they saying? How are they acting?--to determine if 
they had been radicalized?'' they didn't know what to look for. Mueller 
said they did go out there, but it was in their outreach program.
  Yeah, go out there and have a meal. Let's get together and be 
buddies, but not even investigate when the Russians tell you this guy 
is a radical, he is going to kill Americans.
  They sent somebody out. They talked to him and talked to his mom. He 
said, ``No, I am not a terrorist''; and Mom said, ``He is a good boy, 
not a terrorist.'' And then he goes and kills people in Boston at the 
marathon because they didn't know what they were looking for.
  It is time to get back to fulfilling our oath to the United States of 
America to protect this country, to get government out of the way, to 
create a level playing field across the country and then let people 
compete. Don't reward the losers. Encourage them to pick up and keep 
going when they fail because, like Edison, it is not a failure. You 
just found a way not to succeed on that, but you will find a way next 
time. We keep trying.
  It is time to wake up, protect the people within the United States so 
that we can continue to be the biggest, brightest beacon of light in 
the world where people will want to come instead of a place that was 
once great, was once free, was once safe, but now countries around the 
world have travel alerts out on our cities because we are not safe 
anymore. It is time to protect America and put America first, which is 
our oath and obligation. When we do that, we can do more good for the 
world than we have done since World War II.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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