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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:06 PM Jan 2015

Gohmert gets an oversight chairmanship, despite challenging House Speaker John Boehner

WASHINGTON — Challenging the speaker hasn’t kept Rep. Louie Gohmert from moving up in the House.

Gohmert, R-Tyler, will chair a new subcommittee that will investigate and oversee the Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management and other agencies.

In that role, Gohmert said, he will “hold this administration’s feet to the fire for the good of every household in America.” Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, named Gohmert to chair the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

“The economy is ready to do amazing things if we loosen the death grip that this administration has had by using over 70,000 pages of new regulations each year,” Gohmert said in a written statement.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/gohmert-gets-an-oversight-chairmanship-despite-challenging-house-speaker-john-boehner.html/

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Gohmert gets an oversight chairmanship, despite challenging House Speaker John Boehner (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2015 OP
Jesus help us! pscot Jan 2015 #1
Maybe the Administration should hire somebody like this: Turbineguy Jan 2015 #2
Could you imagine sharp_stick Jan 2015 #3
we are truly living in a bizarro world. niyad Jan 2015 #4

Turbineguy

(37,317 posts)
2. Maybe the Administration should hire somebody like this:
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:28 PM
Jan 2015

"...Sir, did you actually read those 70,000 pages or is this just something you pulled out of your ass?"

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
3. Could you imagine
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:28 PM
Jan 2015

being called to testify in front of that moronic fuck. I'd probably be held in contempt the second I saw that inbred piece of shit show up.

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