[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 96-100]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     A GREAT DEAL OF NEWS TO REPORT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McAllister). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of January 3, 2013, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Gohmert) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority 
leader.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, a great deal of news has come out. So many 
things have happened since we recessed in December. Some things did not 
get the attention they should have.
  This is an article from the Daily Caller, December 18, entitled: 
``Senate Democrats Block Amendment to Restore Veteran Benefits by 
Closing Illegal Immigrant Welfare Loophole.''
  Mr. Speaker, it would seem by anyone's standard of morality that when 
someone promises something in order to encourage or get someone else to 
expose themselves to death, to brutal treatment, and that person does 
so--they join the military, go through rigorous training, spend a 
career 20 years or more defending the United States of America, 
following orders--that it would be morally reprehensible for anyone, or 
in this case any government, to pull back on the promises that were 
made to those who served relying on those promises.
  In courts, that doctrine would be called ``promissory estoppel.'' 
Promises are made to induce someone else to act, the other does act in 
reliance on those promises to the actor's detriment, then in a court 
system a civilian would be required under the doctrine of promissory 
estoppel to provide what was promised.
  But the United States Government is not subject to such claims in 
court so it must rely upon Congress to have the moral compass and the 
conscience to keep our promises to those who have served enough years, 
long enough to retire. When I push for such benefits and the keeping of 
our word to our veterans, it is not something that enures to my 
benefit. I served in the Army, but only for 4 years. I did not reach 
the 20-year mark or more that would have entitled me to the promises 
that were made.
  But I know so many who had the chance to go back and make more money 
in the civilian sector and not give up their right of freedom of 
assembly and had to assemble at 5 in the morning, as we often did, or 
doing forced marches, as we did, or doing so many things that were not 
fun or pleasant, but doing so because it was proper training to be in 
the United States military. We owe those who have served to keep our 
promises.
  When George Washington resigned as commander of the revolutionary 
military, it was an incredible act that constantly comes up both here 
and abroad when people both here and around the world look for an 
example of true selfless service to one's country. And how George 
Washington could serve as commander of the revolutionary military, the 
revolution is won, and he did what no one in the history of the world 
has ever done: won the revolution as commander of the military and then 
resign and in effect that I have done all you asked and now I am going 
home.
  That was brought up to me in the Maldive Islands some time back that 
I was told was a relatively new democracy who were always worried about 
a military coup because we never had a proper example like George 
Washington, we never had a George Washington to set the proper example, 
and has had a military coup since, I was told. Not only did George 
Washington resign, but at the end of his resignation--and this was 
something that was said to all 13 Governors--he had a prayer for the 
country. Part of that prayer was that we would never fail to remember, 
basically honoring those who have served.
  Then apparently on December 18, the United States Senate voted 
against restoring the benefits that were taken away from veterans 
because they didn't want to close a loophole in the law that allows for 
people who come here illegally to get welfare. Because if that loophole 
had been closed, then people who come illegally would not be able to 
get welfare, and the money saved by closing that loophole would be 
enough to fund our promises that have been broken to our veterans under 
the brand-new budget.
  I hope very soon that we will have a chance to fix that in the House. 
It is the right thing to do. How else will we have the moral authority 
in Congress to do anything else? We can't keep our promises in answer 
to the prayer that George Washington had that we would never forget 
those, that we would help those who have served in the field, our 
military. That is a travesty.
  On December 19, the next day, there was an article in the Washington 
Times: ``Homeland Security Helps Smuggle Illegal Immigrant Children 
into the United States.'' It goes on to discuss a 10-page order by 
Judge Andrew S. Hanen. And Judge Hanen, it says, said the case was the 
fourth such case he had seen over the last month. And in each instance, 
Customs and Border Protection agents have helped to locate and deliver 
the children to their illegal immigrant parents.
  Now, Republicans believe in the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity 
and importance of families in America. When someone chooses to violate 
United States law and enter the United States illegally without proper 
documentation, no matter how noble the cause is believed to be to help 
family--obviously that is a noble cause--but if it is done illegally, 
without documentation, it is an incredible disservice and affects so 
unfairly those who have stood in line, paid money after money, done 
everything the right way to gain entrance into the United States 
legally.
  There is one person to whom I spoke last Thursday that he was married 
to a woman that he tried for so long to get legally into the United 
States and finally got her into the country legally. It is so grossly 
unfair to the millions of people who have come into this country as 
immigrants legally. We are a Nation of immigrants. As my friend Steve 
King says, there is really not a nation in the world, perhaps, that is 
not a nation of immigrants. But the United States certainly is.
  One of the big reasons we have been able to become the most free--
until ObamaCare perhaps--but the most free Nation in the world with the 
least government dictation and intervention in our private lives, and 
been the most blessed country, I believe, even more so than Solomon's 
Israel, is because we were a Nation of laws, as the Founders described 
it, a Nation where no one was perceived to be above the law.
  I even paid a parking ticket because people perceived that I had 
violated a law and a National Park policeman who did not know the law, 
was ignorant of the law, decided to give it. It was easier to pay the 
$25 than it was to help teach the National Park policeman the law on 
parking in Washington, D.C. Nobody is above the law. Nobody is supposed 
to be above the law.
  There are verses throughout the Old Testament and New Testament. So 
many of the first hundred years of this Nation's existence had 
scriptures quoted from the Old Testament and New Testament as a basis, 
or reason, that particular legislation should be passed.
  Well, one thing is clear in the Old Testament and New Testament: that 
showing partiality, showing favoritism, to anyone--as Leviticus talks 
about--whether it is to the very poor or the very wealthy, either way 
it is not right; it is wrong.
  If we are going to ever attain again moral authority as a Congress, 
we have to make sure the law is applied fairly across the board. When 
someone chooses to violate our laws by coming into the country, then we 
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who took an oath to see that the laws of the United States are carried 
out and properly executed. That means everyone who answers to the 
President of the United States, including the Department of Homeland 
Security, including Customs and Border enforcement, all of DHS, should 
be following the law and pushing others to follow the law and seeing 
that the law is followed.
  But yet we see apparently case after case, shockingly, that Homeland 
Security is getting involved in the human trafficking business carrying 
children around the country, seeking them out.

                              {time}  1945

  How about we get the parent together with the child in a country 
where they are lawfully allowed to be?
  How about being a good neighbor to Mexico? Instead of providing 
weapons to drug cartels, which have killed hundreds of our neighbors in 
Mexico, how about standing up against the drug cartels--not supplying 
them weapons, not seeing that drug deals are done, which may help one 
cartel over another, but actually being a good neighbor so that Mexico 
becomes the country where people want to stay and work?
  I have talked to so many Mexicans who really want to live in Mexico, 
but they have trouble finding jobs. There is so much corruption in a 
country where a police chief or a law enforcement officer or someone 
trying to do the right thing or trying to stand up against the drug 
cartel can end up with his head on a pike. That is our neighbor. Why 
are we not helping our neighbor stop the killing in massive numbers of 
our neighbor Mexicans? Instead, we have the Department of Homeland 
Security, as found by the Federal courts, to continually be helping 
people violate our own laws.
  I want families together, but the law needs to be followed. That is 
why you have judges, like I was, who have their hearts broken when they 
have to enforce laws that they don't always believe in, but it is 
because the laws are duly passed and signed into law by the executive 
branch, because we took an oath to enforce the law and to follow the 
law.
  Then it was shocking to read this story in TheBlaze from December 27. 
The headline: ``ATF Agent Sends Shock Waves Across Internet with 
Explosive Allegations About `Fast and Furious' and Brian Terry's 
Death.''
  On down in the article, it says:

       After the Terry slaying--in talking about Brian Terry, the 
     Federal agent who was killed--and an attempted cover-up 
     within the Justice Department, Dodson--in talking about this 
     ATF agent--provided evidence and testimony to Congress. His 
     revelations, later verified by an Office of the Inspector 
     General's report, ignited a national scandal over Fast and 
     Furious that resulted in a congressional contempt citation 
     against Attorney General Eric Holder and the replacement of 
     top ATF and Justice Department officials.
       In his book, Dodson uses cautious language to characterize 
     his account of circumstances surrounding Terry's death, 
     saying the information is based on firsthand knowledge, 
     personal opinion and press reports. He asserts that the DEA 
     had information about and may have orchestrated a large drug 
     shipment through Peck Canyon that December night.

  He was talking about the night Brian Terry was killed.

       He alleges that DEA agents shared that intelligence with 
     FBI counterparts, who advised criminal informants from 
     another cartel that the load would be ``theirs for the 
     taking.''
       Dodson laid out a strategy in which Federal law enforcement 
     agencies, like the FBI, allow criminal activity in order to 
     increase the clout of FBI informants embedded within cartel 
     organizations. ``If they can get these guys (informants) in a 
     position so they're closer to the tier 1 or tier 2 guy (in 
     the cartel), they'll do it . . . ''

  Further down, the article says:

       ``Essentially, the United States Government is involved in 
     cartel-building,'' Dodson said.
       The claims sound eerily familiar to allegations brought 
     forward by high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel operative Jesus 
     Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who is currently facing trial in 
     Chicago on Federal drug charges.

  Further down, it says:

       ``(They) were given carte blanche to continue to smuggle 
     tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United 
     States, and were also protected by the United States 
     Government from arrest and prosecution in return for 
     providing information against rival cartels which helped 
     Mexican and United States authorities capture or kill 
     thousands of rival cartel members,'' the defense motion in 
     the case reads.

  It is incredible what is going on, and it is only appropriate that, 
if Congress is to continue funding these agencies and these 
departments, we should have--and do have--the right to know what they 
are doing with our money. That should also mean getting to the bottom 
of Fast and Furious. There should be a select committee to get to the 
bottom of what happened in Fast and Furious. Eventually, there should 
be mainstream media components that actually do their job for a change, 
which is so important to keeping a free nation, by actually going after 
the administration they have put in place and demanding answers to the 
questions of what happened with Fast and Furious.
  We owe our friends to the south, our Mexican neighbors, answers to 
what happened. It is outrageous for a government to treat a neighbor 
like this. There is no reason that the country of Mexico should not be 
one of the top 10 economies in the world. Mexico should be one of the 
top 10 economies in the world. They have the natural resources. They 
have got people willing to work and who are doing phenomenal work as we 
have seen even in this country. They have a beautiful country, but they 
need to be rid of the drug cartels. They need to be a nation of laws.
  This eerily brings us back to the demand that some who come into this 
country illegally make now: we want you to quit being a nation of laws, 
ignore the law and say that we are legally here, though we came 
illegally. Ironically, if we do that, we are no longer a nation of 
laws, which would make us like the nation of Mexico, where graft and 
corruption in so many places is the rule of the day, where cronyism is 
the rule in so many places, where they don't have the freedom that we 
have here from the fear of drug cartels.
  I have mentioned a Washington Times story. Unfortunately, there was 
one in the Washington Times today, entitled: ``Is Islam a religion of 
peace or a religion of war?'' written by Rahat Husain. In this, Mr. 
Husain shows that he is either one of the laziest reporters in the 
world or that he is one of the biggest liars.
  I quote from the article:

       Of course, those who seek to vilify more than 1.6 billion 
     Muslims in the world do so with a serious disregard for logic 
     or morality. In 2010, Congresswoman Debbie Riddle and 
     Congressman Louie Gohmert put a theory into the public 
     discourse, that there was such a thing as a ``terror baby.''

  I have never used that term to describe anybody. So, from Mr. Husain, 
Mr. Speaker, that is an outrageous, abominable lie.
  Now, it is quite possible he could have gotten that from so many of 
the media sources that do what they do so well. I go back to a sign 
that used to be above a blacksmith's shop. It was a re-creation of an 
old blacksmith's shop just south of Fort Benning in a quaint, old 
village. The sign above the blacksmith's door said: ``All types of 
bending and twisting done here.'' So what happens is that some in the 
mainstream, so-called, take a point that I make, twist it into 
something I didn't say, create this straw dog that they can beat up 
over and over and over and run that use up so much on the Internet 
that, if you click on my name, you will see this term, though I have 
never used it, and the point I made was a valid point.
  This article says:

       Despite the moral depravity of referring to infants as 
     terrorists--

  which I never did. Mr. Husain is a liar--

       Congressman Gohmert defended the notion and got into a 
     shouting match with CNN's Anderson Cooper, insisting on the 
     validity of his idea.

  Mr. Husain's writing does not deserve to be considered as serious 
literature if he is either that lazy or that significant of a liar. All 
he would have to do is research. Hopefully, he did that research, which 
would mean he is clearly one of the largest liars around. Now, if 
either Anderson Cooper or Mr. Husain or others would do a little 
homework--it doesn't take that much--they would

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find that something called ``birthright tourism'' is big around the 
world. It is significant.
  As I pointed out to Anderson Cooper, there had been an article 
shortly before that about a Chinese tourist agency that, for a certain 
amount of money, would get you a tourist visa into the United States 
when you were pregnant. They would help you get your baby born and then 
get you an American passport before you left. Then I saw, right after 
that, an article where there was a Muslim-owned hotel in New York that 
was hurt because they said they were the first ones to come up with 
this idea of having, in their case, basically, Muslim pregnant women 
come to the United States, have a baby, and then they would help you 
get the American passport when you returned to your country.
  The point that I was making--and it is still a legitimate point--is 
that there are people who hate the United States, who come into this 
country, who have a child. Children are a gift from God. They are--that 
is why abortion is so wrong--and the responsibility that comes with 
having a child: to train them up in a wholesome environment as best you 
can, not to hate people. Yet we have children who leave this country 
with an American passport and go back to the country where their 
parents are citizens, and they are then raised to hate America.
  Some may remember that, in 2011, a man named Anwar al-Awlaki, an 
American citizen, was killed by a drone in Yemen. Anwar al-Awlaki had 
been here on Capitol Hill numerous times. He had friends at the White 
House. He had friends in this administration. He had been on Capitol 
Hill, leading Muslim staff members in Muslim prayer. Why? How could he 
do it? Because he was an American citizen. How was Anwar al-Awlaki an 
American citizen? His parents came here on a visa to go to college.

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  He was born, returned to Yemen, was raised to hate America, raised to 
hate our Western democracy, and as an adult became a terrorist who 
incited others to terrorism against the United States.
  Perhaps some have heard of a guy named Al-Amoudi. Actually, I had the 
paperwork, held it up for the Director of the FBI, Director Mueller, 
and he was not aware at all that the Boston mosque that the Boston 
bombers attended, were started--we had the paper on the Boston society 
that did that. Al-Amoudi was the founder.
  Al-Amoudi was a friend and an adviser in the Clinton administration, 
but during the Bush administration, he was arrested at Dulles Airport 
and later pled guilty and was sentenced to 23 years in prison for 
supporting terrorism.
  It might be worth noting for someone in Homeland Security or the 
State Department that Al-Amoudi, convicted and now imprisoned for 
supporting terrorism, while his wife was here on a visa, they had a 
child, who is an American citizen.
  A man named Morsi was President of Egypt until he began to disregard 
the constitution of Egypt, to the extent that people rose up in Egypt 
in numbers greater than anywhere in the history of the world and 
demanded his ouster. As the Coptic Christian Pope has said, this wasn't 
a coup; this was the Egyptian people rising up as never before, 
reportedly, over twice the numbers that President Morsi claims voted 
for him to make him President.
  It appeared he was doing as Chavez had done. It appeared he was 
doing, as one Egyptian told me, as the President who was elected in the 
Gaza Strip had done. Once he had an election, he pulled all the power 
to himself, and they didn't need elections after that. There would 
never be anybody defeat him, like Chavez did in Venezuela. They could 
see it happening. As one Egyptian told me in Egypt within the last few 
weeks, if the Egyptian people had waited another year to try to remove 
Morsi from office, they would have been unable, because he would have 
pulled that much power unto himself.
  So I think accolades should go out to the Egyptian people for rising 
up and demanding democracy, demanding the fruition of a true Arab 
Spring, and for people who are ignorant or promoting lies, like Mr. 
Husain, if you would do some checking, you would find that I have 
moderate Muslim friends around the world. Anyone--Muslim, secularist, 
any persuasion, race, creed, color, or religion, if they believe in 
freedom, they are brothers in liberty. Something I think it would do 
well for this administration to learn at some point before it is too 
late is, we should be able to work with the enemy of our enemy.
  Moderate Muslims in Afghanistan do not want radical Islamists leading 
and in charge of Afghanistan again. There is a simple answer to the 
problem of us leaving Afghanistan, which will soon become Taliban-run 
again, and this administration is bungling--even though the bungling 
began in the last administration, in fairness it did--but the final 
bungling will be by this administration if we don't take action to 
prevent those who fought for this country from believing their loved 
ones died in vain. I don't believe they did. They fought for liberty. 
But I have heard from too many family members who have lost loved ones 
in Afghanistan who have said, Don't let our loved ones have died in 
vain.
  The Taliban were defeated in a matter of months in Afghanistan, and 
we did it with less than 500 embedded special ops and intelligence. We 
gave air support and provided some weapons, and they defeated the 
Taliban.
  The former vice president under Karzai in the first administration, 
former Vice President Masood, a friend of mine--a Muslim--rushed out of 
his home to embrace me when I got there not too long ago, because he 
knew I was his friend. I don't want him to live under radical Islam. He 
doesn't want to live under radical Islam.
  This friend said, Look, if you could just help us get an amendment to 
our constitution. I said, What are you talking about? He said, Under 
our constitution that you apparently rubberstamped, in essence, a 
strong centralized government was created in a country that has been 
and is and will be for the foreseeable future very tribal, very 
regional. We tried to make it into a strong centralized government when 
what the people wanted was a federalist system where the states, where 
the regions had some self autonomy like we are supposed to have in this 
country.
  He said, If we could elect our own governors. It is a shock to so 
many that the constitution that we thought was okay under the Bush 
administration allows the President of Afghanistan to appoint the 
regional governors, to appoint the mayors, to appoint the chiefs of 
police. He appoints the top-level teachers. He appoints a slate of the 
legislators for a part of the legislature. He has powerful abilities to 
manipulate the purse strings.
  What we created in Afghanistan--or helped them create--was a formula 
for disaster and corruption. How could you give one man that much 
authority to appoint and not expect corruption, when you get to appoint 
all the governors. As my friend, former Vice President Masood told me 
there at his home, if we could have an amendment that allowed us to 
elect our governors, allowed us to elect our mayors, allowed us to 
elect--or select, at least--our own chiefs of police, then our regions 
would be strong enough to prevent the Taliban from taking back over the 
whole country, and we could rally together, as we did before, to 
overrun them and run them out of the country.
  I said, What makes you think that the United States could help push 
an amendment through your own constitution? That needs to happen here 
in Afghanistan, I said. He pointed out, Do you have any idea how much 
our federal government budget is? I had to admit I didn't know. He 
said, around $12.5 billion of your dollars. He said, Do you know how 
much Afghanistan provides of our $12.5 billion or so budget? I didn't 
know. About $1.5 billion.
  Other moderate Muslims there were all in agreement, You need to help 
us with this. He said that most of the rest of that $11 billion comes 
from the United States. You have the leverage to help us get an 
amendment to our constitution.

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  Instead of trying to work out some messed up Status of Forces 
Agreement, as we have seen this administration try to do in Iraq, to no 
avail, instead of doing that, why don't we start pushing Karzai and 
say, you help get an amendment in there so you don't get to appoint 
everybody who is anybody in this country. We will let each state or 
each region elect their own governor. Let's get that amendment in 
there. Otherwise, we are going to cut every dime of support off. That 
might have some sway.
  We have the ability, we have the leverage, and we have, for a little 
bit longer, before we totally lose it, some moral authority to seek 
that on behalf of our moderate Muslim friends in Afghanistan who don't 
want to be killed because they fought with us and for us in defeating 
the Taliban before we became occupiers, before we gave them a 
centralized government that the Taliban can easily take over when we 
leave.
  We owe them that, and we owe ourselves that, because if we can 
empower the enemy of the Taliban to continue to keep the Taliban at bay 
in Afghanistan, we have done a great thing. We have helped our country, 
and we have helped our moderate Muslim friends in Afghanistan who do 
not want to live under Taliban tyranny again, and they don't want to 
die and be killed because they helped us and then we abandoned them. We 
owe them that.
  I hope Mr. Husain that is writing this garbage for The Washington 
Times will do a little research. He will also find out, if he did so, 
that President Morsi, the Muslim brother who was elected President, 
reportedly--some say it was a fraudulent election, or election 
results--but anyway, he was made President and then began to abuse the 
constitutional powers and tighten the reins around him.
  I was told by friends who love Israel that this is really exciting 
because Morsi is really our friend. He is really cleaning up the Sinai. 
After Morsi was removed, we found out the Sinai has been incredibly 
militarized by Morsi. What would you expect of a man who had said that 
Jews are descendants of apes and pigs? That is not a friend of Israel.
  Yet you have the Egyptian Government now taking action to 
demilitarize, to fight the radical Islamists in the Sinai that pose a 
threat to the Suez Canal, that pose a threat to our friend, Israel, and 
they are actually trying to take action. What did this administration 
do? They had promised 10 Apache helicopters to the Morsi presidency, to 
that regime.
  When the people of Egypt rose up in true democratic form and demanded 
and got the ouster of a man trying to become a tyrant, this 
administration wanted Morsi put back in place, and even sent a couple 
of Republican senators over there to ask for Morsi to be released from 
prison. They didn't even know, as General el-Sisi finally admitted to 
me in the presence of our Ambassador, that, yes, they had evidence that 
Morsi was trying to have a contract to have General el-Sisi killed. 
Murdered. Trying to higher a contract killer. That was just one of the 
many problems that Morsi created.
  President Morsi said he backed off his membership, his participation 
in the Muslim Brotherhood. Right. There is video of him having orders 
dictated, delivered to him, on what he should do by the supreme leader 
there.
  What happened when Morsi was removed? The Muslim Brotherhood went 
berserk.

                              {time}  2015

  They began burning churches by the dozens, killing Christians, 
persecuting Jews and Christians like never before, persecuting moderate 
Muslims.
  I am so proud of the people of Egypt. They want a democracy. A man 
named Amr Moussa was appointed as chairman of the Constitutional 
Convention. Incredibly diverse groups there, incredibly diverse 
interests; yet they all agreed on this to start out, under Moussa's 
leadership, that unless 75 percent of all of those delegates to the 
Constitutional Convention agreed on a provision, it wouldn't be there.
  As Chairman Moussa pointed out to me personally, he said, you know, 
we learned from your Constitution. Basically, he said, you know, our 
prior constitution, under Morsi, had no provision for impeachment. 
There was no way to lawfully remove him under that constitution, which 
was the way Morsi wanted it.
  In their new constitution, they have provisions for impeachment. And 
this Constitutional Convention was led by moderate Muslim friends like 
Amr Moussa. And it was endorsed by the Sheikh of al-Azhar, a very well-
respected Muslim leader, and has been endorsed by so many Muslim 
leaders.
  They don't want radical Islam in charge. Moderate Muslims can be and 
are our friends.
  And instead, this administration canceled the order for the 10 
Apaches, or at least suspended it. And what is Egypt doing with the 
Apaches they already have?
  They are fighting radical Islamists in the Sinai, and they are making 
sure ships get through the Suez Canal. Well, that should be a worthy 
endeavor, worthy of this administration not condemning a true 
democracy-in-the-making in Egypt, but trying to help them keep the Suez 
Canal open, trying to help them demilitarize the radical Islamists 
controlling the Sinai, as a threat to the Suez, to Egypt and to our 
friends, Israel and Jordan, and others.
  If that Constitutional Convention is approved, which will be voted on 
in Egypt January 14 and 15, article 64 is a provision for freedom, 
stating that freedom of belief is absolute. You have an absolute 
freedom to believe in whatever religious beliefs you care to believe in 
without the government's harm.
  What we are seeing here is really, if it works out, the people 
approve it, is the beginning of what we saw in Turkey with Ataturk so 
many decades ago, when he overran radical Islam and Turkey bloomed and 
became a great nation under his leadership and under those who followed 
what he set forth.
  Article 93 of the new Egyptian Constitution commits that Egypt is 
obligated to observe all human rights that Egypt has ever endorsed and 
in all treaties to which it has agreed.
  Article 235 was shocking to me. In their new constitution, the 
moderate Muslims of Egypt, who want a democracy, they felt so badly 
about the radical Islamists that make up the Muslim Brotherhood burning 
so many churches, persecuting, killing so many Christians, that article 
235 requires that the first parliament pass a law to deal with the 
churches that were burned to ensure that Egypt rebuilds those churches 
for them.
  What a statement to the world about the freedom they want to see take 
place. That is why it was so moving to people that told me about being 
there firsthand during those, the revolutionary masses, as they came 
forward by the millions, holding hands, figuratively and literally, 
Christians, moderate Muslims, secularists, Jews, saying we don't want 
radical Islam.
  It is high time this administration began helping the enemy of our 
enemy, instead of trying to help our enemy.
  As General al-Sisi asked me, are you and the United States still with 
us in the war against terror?
  He and others commented to the effect that United States leaders do 
not seem to believe we are still having to fight terrorists anymore. 
They are fighting them in this new government.
  Now, to be sure, they have got a long, tough road ahead because they 
are already where this nation is heading, with a massive welfare state, 
where so many of the citizens are getting giveaways from the 
government, where they have tried this idea of redistribution of the 
wealth and it has led to many more and more richer people, and much, 
much poor people, just as we have seen in this Nation in the last 5 
years, and it needs to stop.
  Another thing that needs to stop was reported in Breitbart, written 
by Frances Martel: ``State Department Whistleblower Has E-Mail 
Hacked.'' The story talks about the whistleblower who helped expose 
misconduct by Hillary Clinton's security detail had his Gmail account 
hacked and key evidence against State Department officials deleted, 
according to an exclusive New York Post report.

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  Diplomatic Security Service Criminal Investigator Richard Higbie had 
exposed earlier this year that the State Department allegedly covered 
up reports alleging improprieties by Secretary of State Hillary 
Clinton's security detail in which they had engaged with prostitutes 
abroad. Those reports would have also exposed the Belgian Ambassador's 
alleged attempts to solicit. And it goes on.
  But the article says the Gmail hack deleted 4 years' worth of 
messages, according to Schulman, including significant damning evidence 
against high-ranking officials in the State Department. It also 
included messages with evidence sent to Members of Congress and their 
offices investigating the story. Higbie has called for the FBI to 
investigate the hacking, and continues to have unanswered questions 
about other strange occurrences since he began to expose the covered-up 
investigation.
  The article goes on, and that goes hand-in-hand with another story 
that was reported in the past 6 months or so of a whistleblower having 
her and her husband's home burglarized, and they ended up taking all of 
that reporter's files that she had used to expose wrongdoing, 
misconduct, within the very department that raided her home and took 
her records and won't give them back.
  At the same time, this administration continues to send people to the 
nation of Israel, the Jewish State, the home where people could come by 
the millions after 6 million were killed in the Holocaust of World War 
II.
  We have the nerve to send people over to the leaders of Israel and 
tell them they have got to give away more land, when every time they 
have given away land, whether it was northern Israel, that is now 
southern Lebanon, or whether it is the Gaza Strip, anything they have 
given away ends up being used as a staging area from which to attack 
it; and those to whom the land is given use our money we provide for 
books to teach their children to hate Jews, to hate Israelis, and to 
hate the United States.
  As I have said for years, you don't have to pay people to hate you. 
They will do it for free. We could make our word good to our veterans 
if we just quit paying the people that hate us. Let them hate us for 
free. Maybe they would learn to like us and come ask to work with us 
and find out we are actually pretty decent people if we quit paying 
them to hate us.
  The Palestinians, was reported, January 1 in this Jerusalem Post 
article, said Palestinians reiterate plans to reject any framework 
accord presented by the U.S. And yet we send over a Secretary of State, 
well-meaning, and others, to demand Israel give up more land to people 
that say they will reject it, but give us more land from which we can 
attack you.
  I think about the verses in Jeremiah, where the prophecy is there 
that there will be grapes grown in the mountains of Samaria, that some 
are saying doesn't belong to Israel. Well it used to; 1,600 years 
before a man named Mohammed was born, King David was ruling in that 
region.
  But over the years, over the decades and centuries, people have said, 
look, that area, those mountains of Samaria will not grow grapes. That 
is ridiculous. And yet in the past couple of years, I have tasted those 
grapes. The vineyards are beautiful. They are Israeli, Jewish vineyards 
in the mountains of Samaria, just as Jeremiah prophesied would happen, 
that God would make it happen.
  And we send a Secretary of State over saying, you have got to give 
away what you believe God providentially provided to you. We, the 
United States, know more than any god you believe in. Give it away.
  It has been prophesied. I would hate to go against prophecy.
  And yet this article from the Telegraph, Iran Nuclear Deal, Saudi 
Arabia warns it will strike out on its own. As Steve King, Michelle 
Bachmann and I, Robert Pittenger, traveled to some of the countries in 
the Middle East, as others of us traveled around the Middle East back 
in September, it is incredible, but this administration, with what it 
is doing in Iran, the rest of the Middle East believes is going to 
allow Iran to have nukes and Saudi Arabia and our other allies and our 
enemies all want nukes, and nuclear proliferation will become just a 
rule of thumb, which is why I think this article appeared January 2 in 
the Washington Times, showing a comment that makes sense now, but 
``Anti-Communist Icon Decries Obama: U.S. No Longer Leads the World.''
  This was from Lech Walesa, and he had great hopes for the United 
States. He obviously had great hopes for this administration.
  He said whatever hope in the world existed that Obama would reclaim 
moral leadership for America when elected in 2008 is gone, and instead 
the President has failed to bring that dream to fruition, he told CNN.
  We have to do everything we can to recreate, to reclaim America's 
role, and it seems that Obama would manage that, but he didn't 
accomplish that. America did not regain its leadership status. We're 
just lucky there were no bigger conflicts in the world, because if it 
had had bigger conflicts, then the world would be helpless.
  The trouble is, 2014 will be a year in which there are bigger 
conflicts, bigger issues. It is time we did the moral thing by our 
military veterans. It is time we did the moral thing by stopping the 
spending of children and grandchildren and great grandchildren's money. 
And it is time we did the moral thing by our friends and quit helping 
our friends' enemies hurt our friends.

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  We need to regain, as Lech Walesa said, the moral authority we once 
had. That can be done, and we need to seize the day and do it.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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