[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WE CAN DO BETTER

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, $700 million for wild horses last Friday; 
$50 million for rare cranes and rare dogs and cats that don't even live 
in this country. We've got habitat problems in this country. The $800 
billion stimulus hasn't stimulated anything except unemployment.
  I just left a crime hearing and we found out that out of 207,000 
people in Federal prison, 53,000 of them are not citizens. They're non-
U.S. citizens. They're here--most of them, they said, were probably 
illegal. So there's 53,000 jobs Americans didn't want, committing 
crimes in America. We had to outsource that.
  But this is too serious. I know as a former judge, if somebody had 
come in and said, Here's a mom who has all these kids and grandchildren 
and she's gone to a bank and said, Give me money, loan me money, I 
can't control my spending, you would take those beautiful children away 
and give them to somebody that would be responsible.
  We can do better.

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