Welcoming New Republican Members of Congress
WELCOMING NEW REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS -- (House of Representatives - November 16, 2004)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 7, 2003, the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Chocola) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
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Mr. CARTER. Madam Speaker, I want to introduce three distinguished Texans to this House.
First is Representative LOUIE GOHMERT. Judge GOHMERT is an attorney who returned to private practice this last year before being elected to Congress. Prior to that time, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals in Texas.
He served his country as a captain in the United States Army. He is a Fighting Texas Aggie, graduating from Texas A&M University where he was class president and Brigade Commander of the Corps of Cadets. He earned his law degree from Baylor University School of Law, where he was the class president.
Judge GOHMERT has served as the President of the South Tyler Rotary Club, on the Boy Scout District Board of Directors and as deacon in the Green Acres Baptist Church. He also has been a director of leadership in Tyler, Texas, and a director of Centrepoint Ministries, among other numerous efforts.
He and his wife Kathy have three children, Katy, Caroline and Sarah. He is going to be an asset to the State of Texas and to the United States, and I ask that we welcome him to our Congress.
Judge TED POE, another judge, we are going to form an organization of Texas judges before this is over, Judge TED POE is a native of Harris County. Before being elected to Congress, he served as a felony court judge, having been appointed in 1981 and elected six times as a felony district judge.
Before becoming a judge, Judge POE was a felony prosecutor for the District Attorney's Office in Harris County for 8 years and served in the United States Air Force Reserve. He taught criminal justice courses at the University of Houston, conducted training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and at West Point.
Judge POE has received awards from the National Victim's Center, Foundation for Improvement of Justice, the Texas District Attorney's Association, Kansas Peace Officer's Association, Houston Bar Association, Houston Police Officers Association and the Harris County Deputy Sheriff's Office.
TED POE received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Abilene Christian University in political science and his J.D. degree from the University of Houston Law Center where he was a member of the Law School Honor Society.
TED POE has lived in Humble, Texas, with his wife Carol for over 24 years and has four grown children, Kim, Kara, Kurt and Kellee. He is an active member of the Church of Christ.
I ask that you welcome now Congressman TED POE to the 109th Congress.
Finally, a man who took a vast majority of my old district in Texas, the Tenth District, Representative MIKE MCCAUL.
MIKE MCCAUL was the Chief of the Terrorism and National Security Section with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas before he was elected to Congress. He is a member of the Bush-Cheney transition team as well as Attorney General Greg Abbott's transition team.
MIKE MCCAUL served as Deputy Attorney General under JOHN CORNYN and was a Federal prosecutor with the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
MCCAUL received his BS from Trinity University in San Antonio and got a law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
MIKE MCCAUL will be a great asset to this Congress, and we should all look forward to serving with him, and I ask that you welcome him to the 109th Congress.
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