[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16743-16744]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HEARTBREAK ON CAPITOL HILL

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, just moments ago on this floor there was 
cheering and there was clapping over the passing of the crap-and-trade 
bill. And it is a little tough to get excited. From a political 
standpoint, I should be overjoyed because I really believe in my heart 
that when the American people find out, and this is just a part of it, 
when they find out what has been done to them, they are going to be 
livid. And they are going to throw some people out of this body. I just 
know that will happen. But I care more about America than I do 
politics.
  I know that we will be facing the single moms that we heard from last 
summer that can't afford the gasoline bill. They can't afford the 
propane.
  You didn't do a great thing. You hurt some really decent families 
struggling

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and trying to make it. And this is going to be their death knell. It 
breaks my heart.

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