Sandlin was heavily defeated in November 2004 by Republican Louie Gohmert, a longtime judge in the Tyler area.

Gohmert was born in Pittsburg, Texas.

Gohmert has opposed cap-and-trade legislation, such as the one that was passed in the US House when it was Democratic controlled.

Gohmert was one of a number of Republicans who voted against the Budget Control Act of 2011 on grounds it did not do enough to deal with the government's growing debt.

On Fox Business News, Gohmert had later claimed that an airline passenger with a relative in Hamas had a grandchild who was to be intentionally born in the United States.

These packages ( one was described in the article for $ 14, 750 ) were described by Gohmert as a " gaping hole in the security of our country ".

" Gohmert went on to say " It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?

On June 13, 2012, Gohmert was one of five members of Congress ( including Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Tom Rooney, Lynn Westmoreland ) to send letters to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State seeking investigations into the U. S. government ’ s involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that calls for “ civilization jihad ” against America.

He was elected over Representative Louie Gohmert, who was backed by several tea party groups.

* Max Sandlin ( TX-1 ) was defeated in 2004 by Republican Louie Gohmert.

In the Republican primary, Gohmert defeated State Representative Wayne Christian of Center, who thereafter returned to the state legislature.

Gohmert voted for the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, a bill that prohibits the transportation of a minor across state lines for the purposes of an abortion without the consent of the minor's parents.

" Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas's 1st congressional district recommended the column on the floor of the United States House of Representatives shortly after the publication of the article.

Gohmert is the first Republican to represent the district since Reconstruction.

Louis Buller ( Louie ) Gohmert, Jr. ( born August 18, 1953 ) is an American politician and current Republican U. S. Representative from Texas's 1st congressional district.

Gohmert serves on two House committees: Judiciary ( because of his judicial background ) and Natural Resources ( as his district sits on top of the East Texas oil field ).

Gohmert offered an alternative plan to kick-start the economy with his tax holiday bill that would allow taxpayers to be exempt for two months from having federal income tax taken out of their paychecks.

Gohmert has signed the Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

In a 2012 meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee, Gohmert stated his strong support of a trans-Alaskan pipeline, as a means for caribou to have more sex.

Gohmert has made statements and voted for legislation that support the use of school vouchers.

When repeatedly asked by the host for any evidence of this, Gohmert did not provide substantiation for either the ex-FBI agent story or the airline passenger story, but gave a description of a Washington Post article, which described so-called " birth tourism " packages, mainly directed at Chinese tourists.

When asked several times by Cooper for the connection and any corroborating evidence, Gohmert responded " If you don't think this is evidence, you have to believe that the terrorists are more stupid than these enterprising people ".

In an editorial on the website Politico Newt Gingrich made a case for investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood, characterizing Gohmert and the rest as the " National Security Five.

Gohmert attends Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, where he has served as a deacon and teaches Sunday school.

* Max Sandlin ( TX-1 ) ( defeated by Republican Louie Gohmert following 2003 Texas redistricting )

In 2006, Gohmert won his second term by defeating independent Roger L. Owen, a swimming pool builder from Hallsville.

According to Gohmert, " When caribou want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline.

On August 12, 2010, Gohmert appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 ° to defend recent comments he made on the floor of the House regarding " terror babies ".

Initially, Gohmert had claimed ( in a speech made on the House floor in June 2010 ) that an ex-FBI agent had told him about " terror baby " plots.

In the interview, Gohmert asserted that pregnant women from the Middle East are traveling to the US on tourist visas, planning to deliver the child there.

On July 20, 2012, Gohmert appeared on The Heritage Foundation's " Istook Live!

Gohmert blamed the shooting's outcome on the erosion of Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the lack of concealed carriers in the theater.

Gohmert said: " You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place.

* Video of Gohmert Blaming Stock Market Failures on Democrats and Murtha

Gohmert served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982.

Its U. S. representative is Louie Gohmert ( R ).

Gohmert has a pro-life voting record.

Gohmert sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act.

Gohmert does not believe in man made climate change, and has asserted that data supporting the theory is fraudulent.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

He donned the toga virilis four years later, and was elected to the College of Pontiffs in 47 BC.

These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.

As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.