Election of Speaker

Floor Speech

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Mr. BRIDENSTINE. Madam Clerk, I present for the election of the
office of Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 114th
Congress the name of Judge Louie Gohmert, a Representative-elect from
the great State of Texas.

Madam Clerk, Judge Gohmert proudly serves the First District of
Texas. He is serving his fifth term in the House of Representatives.
Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, he was elected to three
terms as district judge in Smith County and was appointed by Governor
Rick Perry to be the chief justice of the 12th Court of Appeals.

Madam Clerk, this is not about Judge Gohmert; it is about
establishing a strong check on the executive branch. I think a quote
applies to my friend Louie Gohmert. It is from Mark Twain. He said:

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man,
and he is brave and hated and scorned. When his cause
succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be
a patriot.

My constituents from the First District of Oklahoma are looking for
this kind of patriot.

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