House Proceeding 03-23-10 on Mar 23rd, 2010 :: 0:09:30 to 0:12:30
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0:09:14 to 0:09:34( Edit History Discussion )

Louie Gohmert: objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009 and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. mr. poe from texas. for what purpose does the

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Speech By: Louie Gohmert

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Louie Gohmert: gentleman from texas rise? mr. gohmert: ask to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. i continue to sound about a cry on this because since 1913, the states have had no way to

0:09:59 to 0:10:19( Edit History Discussion )

Louie Gohmert: prevent usurpation of states' rights or do anything about unfunded mandates that were crammed down their throats. the constitution provided for that, in that it said, the state legislatures would select the u.s. senators. and as long as that was the case, every u.s. senator knew if they created an unfunded mandate

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Louie Gohmert: and took away states' rights or did anything to harm the tates' powers that were granted to them under the united states constitution, this would yank that senator back and he would never come back to the u.s. senate and probably would never get elected to the house of representatives. that was the check and balance that theconstitution provided.

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Louie Gohmert: since 1913, when that was repealed through the 17th ament, there's not been any check or balance on our power grab ausurpation of states' rights. it's time to do something about it and we saw that by the unfunded mandate requiring billions of dollars that could

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Louie Gohmert: bankrupt our states, being shoved down their throats by the bill that was signed into law today. the way that c be handled is under artie five. the part of article 5 that hasn't been used before. and that is the part that says that if 2/3 of the states, that's 34 make an application to

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Louie Gohmert: the congress for a convention to make amendments to the constitution, it has to be provided. and then you have a convention and you create an amendment, one or two, whatever is necessary, to finally put back in place after 97 years, a check and

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Louie Gohmert: balance on this body usurping. it's high time it's done. doesn't need the president's authorization so no need for an authorization so no need for an override. we wil probably would need people that would be open to that idea in charge here in this house. but it needs to happen so that we don't kep this train runing

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Louie Gohmert: so fast down the track the wrong way that it derails and takes the nation with it. we cannot continue this kind of unfunded mandate. it's time for an amendment to the constitution to put a check back on our unbrideled urpation of states' rights. we have 39 states that want to

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Louie Gohmert: do something about this unholy