[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        LEARNING ABOUT PROMISES

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, my mother taught for most of her adult 
life, and she used to say, One of the things I like about you, Louie, 
is that you are teachable. And I am learning, Mr. Speaker.
  I have learned that you can make a promise for years and years: We 
are going to have the most open government; we know that legislation is 
better if there is opportunity to amend it and debate it, because 100 
percent right doesn't lie in one person, so we are going to do that.
  Whoops, we have a shot in being in the majority. What can we do? Oh, 
I know, we can make a different promise. Well, we are people of our 
word, so we promise we are not going to do any of that stuff for the 
first 100 hours.
  Well, that is 4 days and 4 hours. Whoops, we want to keep violating 
our first promise, so, well, we are promising that 100 hours means the 
clock only runs when we have the ball.
  Mr. Speaker, I am learning.

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