[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17165]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   A LOOK BACK AT THE 111TH CONGRESS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, we were assured of a number of things when 
this Congress started. For one thing, the swamp was going to be 
drained. We were told that. There have been a lot of allegations. 
There's been no draining of anything.
  We were told this would be the most open Congress in history. And 
yet, instead, the exact opposite. For the first time in the history of 
the United States Congress, we have gone right up, and as I understand 
we're not going to be back in session before this election, we will 
have gone through this entire Congress without having a single open 
rule for a vote, where anybody could make any amendments.
  The old saying is, ``Democracy ensures that people are governed no 
better than they deserve.'' The people have deserved better. They 
deserve bipartisan. When one chairman, Dingell, wanted to make a 
bipartisan approach to a bill, he was eliminated. We deserve better. 
And may God grant we get it.

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