At today’s full committee markup of the FY2011 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill, I offered an amendment that would save taxpayers $12.4 billion dollars by cutting funding to FY2009 levels. The amendment was defeated along a near party-line vote. To view a video of me offering the amendment, please click the play button below.
I am disappointed that our Democrat colleagues rejected yet another opportunity to reduce the deficit. Every dollar this committee appropriates in 2010 is deficit spending because mandatory spending and interest payments on the debt exceed total revenue. We’re living on the national credit card and sending the bill to our children and grandchildren. Our national debt is on track to surpass GDP by 2012, which puts us on the same path as Greece.
I voted against over $2.3 trillion in new spending under the Bush Administration and nearly $7 trillion under the Obama Administration. I will continue to do everything I can to put our country back on a fiscally responsible track.
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Could I get a copy of the two charts that Mr. Culberson attached to the amendment proposal? You can email it to me at jerrydugat@gmail.com
I am nauseous that our democratically controlled Congress and Senate does not care one iota about spending ALL of the American people’s money and then some…they will bankrupt our country unless we start cutting budgets AND stop spending…keep fighting John – we support you!
I just watched the video. It looks like you were voted down because you said “all but 4% of” the incoming money is currently used to pay for the federal programs (2.4 trillion you said), leaving only 4% of it to pay down the national debt. Um, 4% of $2.4 trillion is $96 billion. That’s quite a lot of money to think it’s frivolous, and I’m sure a lot of it can go towards the national deficit. It merely seems you’re not the only congressperson there who knows their math and can word things in a personally beneficial way.
Also, can you please tell us what you HAVE done instead of what you’ve tried or been prevented from doing?? I believe voting down some Bush funding is the only thing I’ve read you actually succeeding doing, and that was over 1 1/2 years ago.