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Louie Gohmert, a U.S. House member since 2005, is a former chief justice of the Texas 12th Court of Appeals and Smith County state district judge. He lives in Tyler.

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Louie Gohmert
stated on April 7, 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 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 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 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 5, 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

Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 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
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 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

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