Louie Gohmert

Louis Buller " Louie " Gohmert, Jr. ( born August 18, 1953 in Pittsburg, Texas) is an American politician. Since 2005 he represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Louie Gohmert attended until 1971, the Mount Pleasant High School and then studied until 1975 at the Texas A & M University. After a subsequent law degree from Baylor University in Waco and his 1977 was admitted to the bar in 1982, he began to work in this profession. In between, he served 1978-1982 in the United States Army. From 1992 to 2002 he was District Judge in Smith County. After that, he was until 2003 chief judge in the Twelfth Judicial District of Texas. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 2004, Gohmert was the first electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Max Sandlin on January 3, 2005. After the previous three elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources, and in five sub-committees. Within his group he is a member of the Tea Party Caucus, which is close to the Tea Party movement. Gohmert does not believe that climate change was caused by humans. He campaigns against laws to liberalize the abortion law and supports more drilling for exploration of natural resources such as petroleum. Gohmert attracted attention in 2010 when he voiced a theory of terror babies. He had heard that FBI agents had said that pregnant Muslim women would travel to the U.S. to get their babies there. Subsequently, these babies would have a right to U.S. citizenship. The mothers would go back afterwards and educate their children in their home countries to terrorists. These could then later travel to the U.S. to carry out attacks there. On demand Gohmert could make any definite information about the theory or to the FBI agents. The rampage in a movie theater in 2012 led Gohmert it back, that America remove the Judeo - Christian faith. In addition, Gohmert was surprised that no one had drawn a weapon in public in order to stop the gunman. With his wife Kathy Louis Gohmert has three daughters. Privately, he lives in Tyler.