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Gail Collins stated on October 03, 2013 in her oped column:

Louie Gohmert of Texas "compared the current general-in-charge in Egypt to George Washington."

By W. Gardner Selby• October 10, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on April 12, 2014 in a speech at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit:

"Eighty percent of Wall Street executives and their spouses' donations go to Democrats."

By Louis Jacobson• April 17, 2014

Gail Collins stated on October 03, 2013 in her opinion column:

Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'"

By W. Gardner Selby• October 10, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on October 15, 2013 in an interview with Fox News:

"We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bush's last year to $1.6 trillion the following year."

By Louis Jacobson• October 18, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on May 10, 2016 in House floor remarks:

"Of all the people in federal prison for possession of illegal substances, 77 percent of them are not citizens of the United States."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 17, 2016

Louie Gohmert stated on January 23, 2014 in an interview on Fox News:

"Forty years ago, hardly anybody in the country had health insurance."

By Louis Jacobson• January 24, 2014

Louie Gohmert stated on April 07, 2020 in an interview:

Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• April 9, 2020

Louie Gohmert stated on August 11, 2021 in an OAN broadcast.:

Solar panel farms cause “hundreds and thousands” of birds to “hit that magnified sun, explode in flame ... (This) is going to bring the nation down.”

By Jason Asenso• August 17, 2021

Louie Gohmert stated on December 16, 2012 in an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday’:

Says George Washington said a free people should be armed to guard against government tyranny.

By Sue Owen• January 3, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on October 21, 2019 in an op-ed:

"As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump."

By Madlin Mekelburg• October 30, 2019

Louie Gohmert stated on May 10, 2011 in a radio interview.:

Says Gov. Rick Perry has been "begging" for the federal government to send the Coast Guard to patrol two lakes on the U.S.-Mexico border.

By W. Gardner Selby• May 24, 2011

Louie Gohmert stated on December 15, 2010 in a U.S. House floor speech.:

Says that "all those who do not answer directly to the president, they've said (repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is a terrible idea."

By • December 23, 2010

Facebook posts stated on February 16, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."

By Audrey Bowler • February 20, 2015

Louie Gohmert stated on January 05, 2015 in a Fox news interview:

Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

By Lauren Carroll• January 7, 2015

Rush Limbaugh stated on June 29, 2009 in his radio show:

On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."

By Catharine Richert• July 9, 2009

Steve Stockman stated on December 11, 2013 in Stockman's campaign website:

"In every poll," John Cornyn "always loses to any conservative the voters have heard about."

By W. Gardner Selby• December 13, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on July 15, 2013 in an interview.:

Says a Justice Department memo "directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality."

By W. Gardner Selby• July 31, 2013

Louie Gohmert stated on February 21, 2017 in a press release:

Political activists are "being paid" to protest members of Congress.

By Joshua Gillin• February 27, 2017

Louie Gohmert stated on April 17, 2013 in an interview on C-SPAN.:

Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.

By W. Gardner Selby• April 23, 2013

Steve King stated on May 06, 2009 in a Fox News interview:

The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles."

By Robert Farley• May 14, 2009

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