Washington, D.C. — Congressman John Culberson (TX-07) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 766, the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2015: “The Obama Administration launched Operation Choke Point as an effort to identify fraud in our banking system. However, Obama regulators have used Operation Choke Point to cut off access to critical banking services such as credit card processing to small “mom and pop” stores, including businesses across the country tha...
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Representative John Culberson (TX-07) released the following statement after writing Attorney General Loretta Lynch a letter expressing his opposition to sending Federal funding to sanctuary cities. He urged the Attorney General to change the Federal grant process so that no additional Department of Justice (DOJ) funding is provided to jurisdictions that either refuse to honor Federal detainers, harbor illegal aliens, or refuse to share information about criminal illega...
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A top Republican appropriator Monday prepared another funding fight over immigration policy, threatening to withhold federal dollars for the Department of Justice unless the administration cracks down on so-called sanctuary cities.
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Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) is pressing Attorney General Loretta Lynch to prevent sanctuary cities from receiving federal law enforcement grants, saying if she does not act, he will.
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A Republican lawmaker is vowing to tighten the purse strings on the Justice Department to make sure the Obama administration denies grant money to sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration agents.
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Houston, TX — After meeting with Briargrove residents, the Houston Housing Authority (HHA), Houston Independent School District (HISD) officials, and other local officials regarding a new 250-unit multi-family housing development, Representative John Culberson (TX-07) sent the attached letter to Secretary Julián Castro, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and released the following statement. “Mothers like Adi Martinez and Jennifer Dollinger treasure the time they ...
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Another budget battle may be looming in Washington, D.C., just months after the last budget deal left a bad taste in the mouths of many conservatives.
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Every afternoon, Adi Martinez loves walking her daughter home from Briargrove Elementary. Now she's worried her younger son, who is not yet school age, may never get the chance to join his sister.
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Congressman John Culberson (R-Texas) has a plan to ensure that President Barack Obama’s latest executive actions on guns don’t interfere with the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.
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