Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, announced Sunday his candidacy to replace John Boehner, R-Ohio, as speaker of the House of Representatives in the new Congress.
After "years of broken promises, it's time for a change," Gohmert said during an appearance on Fox New's "Fox and Friends."
"I'm putting my name out there today to be another candidate for speaker," he said.
If elected, Gohmert said he would "fight amnesty tooth and nail."
"We'll use the powers of the purse. We'll have better oversight. We'll fight to defund Obamacare," he said.
"In 2010, Boehner and other leaders said if you put us in the majority, we will have time to read the bills," Gohmert said. "That hasn't happened. We saw that with the cromnibus, again."
"We will go through regular committee process so everybody, every representative from both parties, will have a chance to participate in the process and not have a dictator running things, deciding who's the chairman, who gets what committee, what bills come to the floor," he added.
On Saturday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., also voiced discontent with how Boehner has performed as speaker, saying that he will not be voting for him once the new Congress convenes.
"For years I watched Washington from afar and suspected that something was broken," Massie said in a press release, reported The Hill. "During my first two years as a congressman I discovered a significant source of the dysfunction. I watched the House Leadership."
Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., said Saturday that he is willing to replace Boehner as well, and Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., has made similar remarks, The Huffington Post reported.
House members are scheduled to vote for their next speaker on Tuesday, and despite the criticism, Boehner is still heavily favored to win.
It would take 29 Republicans voting against Boehner to obtain a secondary next vote, and only 12 Republicans voted against Boehner in 2013, including Gohmert, Massie, Yoho and Bridenstine, HuffPo noted.
