[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H1018-H1019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTION AND RULES OF THE HOUSE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, I have an article here about the Justice 
Department. It says it continues to go easy on the 2020 rioters.
  These are people that destroyed government buildings, destroyed 
places of business, yet this administration continues to not just 
prosecute but persecute people who just came into the Capitol wrongly 
that should be punished. But to have people let loose immediately after 
burning people, being

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involved in incidents where people were killed, is absolutely an 
outrage to judgment.
  Then, to put people under the control of a deputy warden at the D.C. 
jail who absolutely, maliciously, intentionally despises anybody that 
supported President Trump--and she is in charge of these people? This 
is so dangerous and should not be allowed.
  On top of that, we have the January 6th Committee. They were not 
interested in following the traditions and the rules of the House with 
regard to committees, where both parties could submit people for that 
committee membership.

  There is so much damage that is being done to this institution. It is 
not the collegial working--sure, we have disagreements over the years, 
strong disagreements, but we have never seen anything like what we are 
experiencing now where we could have a commission that is totally made 
up of people that the one party only wanted on the commission and 
others that the other party wanted on were eliminated.
  So, something has to be done.
  Now, we have seen that this administration has not been particularly 
concerned with its constitutional duties, like the one in Article IV 
that mandates that the Federal Government must protect the States from 
invasion.
  You know, to Woodrow Wilson, four or five dozen people was an 
invasion. Nowadays, this administration thinks 2 million is not an 
invasion even though they bring death and suffering in the form of 
drugs, sex trafficking, and human trafficking.
  At the same time, for the first time since I have been in Congress, 
we have seen that our mail--we have gotten two mail just a day apart. 
One came in September 17, stamped by the Department of Justice as being 
received and reviewed and examined. Another, from a Christian 
missionary to me, it was reviewed by the Department of Justice.
  The Supreme Court has made clear that the Department of Justice 
cannot even get a search warrant to search a Member's office, yet this 
administration, like this House, doesn't think the rules, the laws, the 
Constitution, perhaps, mean what they say.
  We have to get back to following the Constitution if we are going to 
preserve this Republic. It is in a dire situation. It is in a desperate 
situation.
  If we do not get back to following the Constitution and observing the 
rules of the House, then our Republic will be lost. That is where we 
are being taken right now.

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