July 06, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. John Culberson (TX-07) issued the following statement today regarding the latest unemployment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
“The number one threat to our national…
Continue reading Rep. Culberson’s Statement on Latest Unemployment Report
April 17, 2012
Rep. Culberson: The federal government doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.
March 30, 2012
Cuts Spending; Reduces Government
“The most serious threat to our nation’s defense is our debt”
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman John Culberson (TX-07) voted in support of the House Republican budget that will…
March 20, 2012
Washington, DC – Congressman John Culberson (TX-07) issued the following statement regarding the House Budget Plan for FY2013:
“We are rapidly sliding into bankruptcy because of the uncontrollable spending the Obama administration…
Continue reading Rep. Culberson Applauds House “Path to Prosperity” Budget Plan
March 03, 2011
“To use Senator Durbin’s own words, ‘it is hard to believe’ Democrats had all of last year to pass a budget and failed to do so, despite having the votes.”
February 19, 2011
In addition to the billions already cut this Congress, today the House passed the largest cut in discretionary spending in our nation’s history.
February 15, 2011
This budget represents a failure of leadership. Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called the debt ‘our biggest national security threat’ and President Obama once again ignores the fiscal crisis.
Continue reading Houston Chronicle: Culberson Calls Obama Budget “A Failure of Leadership”
February 14, 2011
As the debate over the budget begins, all sides must acknowledge one sad and inescapable fact: Every dollar Congress spends is borrowed money.
June 22, 2010
For the first time since the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was signed into law, the House of Representatives will not pass an annual budget resolution. As families across the nation are cutting their budgets and foreign governments are reducing spending, the liberal majority in Congress must find the cure for its addiction to spending. The United States is facing trillion-dollar deficits over the next decade and a national debt surpassing $13 trillion, which makes their refusal to produce a spending plan nothing less than a failure to govern.
May 21, 2010
Last week, House Republicans asked the American people a simple question: Where would you cut federal spending? Within a week, over 280,000 Americans voted online and by text message through…
Continue reading House Democrats Reject Another Spending Cut
May 13, 2010
The fiscal condition of our country is in dire straits, and House Republicans want to know where you’d like to see your Congress cut spending. YouCut – a first-of-its-kind project – is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact.
Continue reading You Decide What Spending Congress Should Cut!
April 15, 2010
President’s plan is akin to privatizing the Navy and simply renting out the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman any time we needed to defend ourselves.
Continue reading NASA Must Not Delay America’s Manned Space Program
February 04, 2010
Today Congressional Democrats are set to raise the debt limit again by $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion – roughly the size of the entire U.S. economy. This will be the…
February 01, 2010
Please join me on February 2, 2010 at 1 P.M. (CDT) for a live webchat with the Houston Chronicle. We will be discussing the President’s Budget and the implications for…
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February 01, 2010
Last week President Obama spoke of fiscal discipline and promised to pay “for what we spent on my watch.” He went on to note correctly that “if we don’t take…
November 06, 2009
Here are five examples of the additional tax burden we would face under the President’s budget and the House of Representatives energy and health care tax bills. Many District 7 residents will bear the brunt of tax increases with some of the highest tax increases in the country. Our district ranks 9th out of 435 congressional districts in total projected tax increase. It is clear that our district cannot sustain this new tax burden.
Continue reading What the Proposed Tax Increases Mean to District 7
