America entering the era of unaffordable unfunded liability. My focus now built around protecting American security, solvency & sovereignty. 4 days ago
@jeremya Yes & I will share w all House members when Congress convenes on Wed to help fight the bailout - I dont think they have seen it bfr in reply to jeremya4 days ago
@mojosd I always try to find comm ground but I will not roll over & support tax increases for us to pay for wealth redistribution & bailouts in reply to mojosd4 days ago
@jeremya Yes but are the avg salary numbers I gave you accurate? Can anyone out there tell me the avg salary of GM vs Toyota workers? in reply to jeremya4 days ago
@mojosd By offering common sense, free market, fiscally conserv, Constitution based alternative solutions when they roll out bail outs etc. in reply to mojosd4 days ago
Michael Skelly recently released a political ad using Houston’s local ABC news affiliate. ABC themselves went back in and truth-checked the ad:
“As for running up the national debt, Skelly says Culberson is responsible because he’s been on the appropriations committee for years. That seems a bit of a stretch, especially since Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006.”
Since Secretary Henry Paulson (aka “King Henry”) told House Republicans in a private meeting about two weeks ago that America was facing the greatest threat to our economy since the Great Depression, I feel like I’ve been shot out of a cannon.
The days have blurred together as the level of public fear and Congressional concern mounted. The pivotal moment for me occurred when Paulson told us at one of those meetings that he has “been making contingency plans for this emergency for the past year.”
Excuse me, Mr. Secretary? What did you just say?
You have known about this emergency for one year, you never warned us, and you never did anything to try to limit the damage? Insurance companies expected us to throw a blue tarp over the damage to our roofs from Hurricane Ike to keep it from getting worse.
This entire episode will rank as one of the most outrageous and disgraceful events in our nation’s history. Never have so many people been driven so deeply into irretrievable debt. The fast hustle that the Administration put on Congress to pass the bailout immediately just convinced me we needed more time to read the bill carefully and consider other options.
Truly a victory for all those seeking increased transparency in our Government, the use of online video and other online technologies has been approved by the Committee on House Administration today.
The Committee on House Administration adopted new web regulations that will permit Members to use outside websites like YouTube to communicate with constituents. The new regulations, which are based upon a proposal presented in June by GOP Members of the Committee, represent a vital step to providing new, uncensored channels of communication between Members of Congress and their constituents.
The new web regulations, which were adopted via Committee poll, permit Members to post content on outside websites so long as the content is for “official purposes,” and not personal, commercial or campaign related.
Ranking Republican Vern Ehlers, R-Mich., applauded Committee Chairman Robert Brady, D-Pa., for his leadership and ability to achieve policy agreements in a nonpartisan fashion. “Mr. Brady recognized the need to allow enhanced constituent communication, and demonstrated outstanding leadership that enabled this Committee to adopt a long-overdue change,” Ehlers stated. “It is imperative that Members have the ability to use whichever web services they feel will best inform their constituents about the important issues facing this country.”
As the entire country is abuzz on Congressional discussions concerning the bailout, Congressman Culberson has a few things to say:
To be clear, I understand that Congress must do something to restore liquidity and ease credit, but yesterday’s bill was focused more on protecting Wall Street institutions than protecting taxpayers. Handing over unlimited power to the Treasury Secretary to purchase toxic assets with our tax dollars under a new system that will take weeks or months to set up and raising the debt limit to more than $11 trillion (or 78% of GDP) is not the solution; instead we should focus on preventing a run on banks by raising the FDIC limit to $250,000 for deposit insurance in checking and money market accounts.
A few Culberson-related links, this week mostly on the Wall Street bailout, the growing numbers of politicians getting active in Social Media and Hurricane Ike. Did we miss something? Let us know in the comments, we want to hear about what you’re reading online!
For years congressional leaders have pushed banks to make politically-correct loans to consumers who are incapable of paying their mortgage. Chairmen Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd persuaded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide “affordable housing” financing in exchange for limited federal oversight. I have repeatedly opposed bills aimed at providing home loans to people who have no means to repay them.
Here are some Culberson and politically-driven Social Media mentions online in the last week. Let’s keep letting the sun shine in the halls of Congress. Missing anything? Share links that we all should know about in the comments!
You’ve already heard about the exciting #dontgo movement (read some background here), a ‘hashtag’ used by folks on the micro-blogging site Twitter to categorize conversation about calling Congress back to vote on important energy issues.
But let’s focus our Twitter conversations even more directly on the 7th District here in Texas by using a different tag: #tx7
If you live elsewhere, use the same format when discussing your Congressional district to make it easier to track: # [your state abbreviation] [your district number]
By organizing our online conversations like this, you help your Representatives have an easier time tracking dialogue going on about their district with you. Want to see what others are saying about your District? Check out search sites like Summize/Twitter search (www.search.twitter.com) or Tweetscan (www.tweetscan.com) to search for your part of the country!
Be sure to follow @hashtags for your Twitter comments to be properly documented online (thanks to @xtopher42 for the reminder!).
Interesting new posts on ‘Twitter taking over Congress‘ popping up online the last couple of days. It’s great to see open political dialogue through Social Media get talked about online - thanks for participating and helping change the way Congress represents you.
Here are some Culberson and politically-driven Social Media mentions online today. Let’s keep letting the sun shine in the halls of Congress
More focus on Congress Twittering today for lower gas prices for America. It’s great to see open political dialogue through Social Media get talked about online - thanks for participating and helping change the way Congress represents you.
Here are some Culberson and politically-driven Social Media mentions online today. Let’s keep letting the sun shine in the halls of Congress!
