Steve Stockman

A Houston Chronicle article reminds that "Stockman’s two years in Congress were marked by weirdness, such as an article in Guns & Ammo magazine that appeared under his byline in which he suggested the then-new Clinton administration raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco on April 19, 1993, to justify a ban on assault weapons.[13] Stockman said, in reports from the Associated Press in May 1995, that he stood by his article, which was published after the bombing on April 19, 1995 of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.[citation needed] A couple of weeks after he defended the article, he told the Associated Press that he regretted writing it, mostly for its timing.[citation needed] On the day the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed, just four months into Stockman's term, there was confusion over a fax sent to Stockman’s office.[citation needed] The FBI became involved.[citation needed] In a news conference in Beaumont in April 1995, Stockman identified the sender as a former Orange County, Texas, Republican chairwoman who had ties to the Michigan militia.[citation needed] The fax was sent to several members of Congress after reports of the bombing came over television.[citation needed] Stockman was the only member to alert the FBI.[citation needed] Stockman also antagonized House Speaker Newt Gingrich by opposing the U.S. bailout of the Mexican peso. [link to en.wikipedia.org]