[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8674]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   THE PRESIDENT: WRONG ON ALL COUNTS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. The Speaker is to be commended for bringing these two 
bills to the floor. Unfortunately, we have a President who cared more 
about what the Arab League and the U.N. thought than he did his own 
elected Congress. We've been kept in the dark about the basis for his 
decisions, and I voted ``no'' on our Speaker's bill because he didn't 
need any more time.
  The President should be aware, Madam Speaker, that there are an awful 
lot of people who are ready to switch their votes and to vote ``yes.'' 
I would prefer that we not do it through the War Powers. We could do 
like the Democrats did in '74 and just cut off the spending.
  It is ridiculous. He said we'd enforce a no-fly zone. That's it. We 
wouldn't put ground troops in Libya. He said that NATO was going to 
take over and that we wouldn't be that involved.
  Wrong on all counts.
  We know from the rules of the House the President wouldn't lie, but 
he sure is misrepresenting things.

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