Renewable Fuels
Floor Speech
RENEWABLE FUELS -- (House of Representatives - March 06, 2007)
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Mr. GOHMERT. I thank my friend, the gentleman from Iowa, the Honorable Mr. King. I have been hearing most of the hour you have been talking about the concepts that I know you and I hold so dear.
There was a group from my hometown, Mr. Speaker, Tyler, Texas, that had come to Washington. They are an inspirational group. They are from Grace Community School. I took them around the Capitol tonight. They know their history. It is great when you see education work.
You see the very things you have been talking about, the free market, at work, and that free enterprise works and that really get backs to our very founding, the Judeo-owe Christian values that were so often espoused as the Declaration of Independence was written.
I have had people say the Constitution itself, there is nothing at all like it. By the way, you cannot send out a letter with the letters addressed or dated as you date them because it says like for today, March whatever day, all my letters, whatever day, ``in the year of our Lord,'' now this year 2007. I was originally told by the franking people, we do not believe you can send that out with ``in the year of our Lord'' on there; that may be inappropriate. My comment was, if you are saying it is unconstitutional to date a letter the same way the Constitution is dated, then we have got a real problem here. He did not realize the Constitution is dated in that manner, ``in the year of our Lord, 1787.''
But anyway, there are groups there are schools where they still learn that kind of history, the very thing my friend Mr. King has been talking about.
I just wanted to pay tribute to the speaker of this group. I know the rules are that we are not to recognize people in the gallery. So I will not violate the rules, but it is a wonderful group that understands the values, the very values the gentleman from Iowa has been discussing, and it just makes me proud to be an American to hear you talk about the values I grew up on, the values that I know are being instilled in the young people still today.
I thank the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King), my good friend, and I would encourage you to keep up the good job.
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