John Culberson

I want to stress in the most emphatic terms possible that I am strongly opposed to that move.

we have really got to fix this problem to restore a fundamental obligation of the Congress as stewards of the Treasury

it is just a violation I think of everything that we, as policymakers, as stewards of the Treasury, our constituents entrust us with this extraordinary privilege

America has no better friend on the face of the Earth than the people of Israel. Israel is the only nation on Earth that can say they've stood by America 100 percent of the time for 100 percent of their existence. And it's so important…

If you can't fire someone for misappropriating 4 percent of your entire annual budget you can't fire anybody for anything.

We are immensely proud of you, devoted to you, and will do everything in our power to help ensure that the men and women that you represent have peace of mind.

In my opinion, the greatest national security threat we face...strategically, our greatest strategic threat as a Nation is China.

It is certainly our impression from the White House, and we tend to see a pattern of behavior because Texas doesn't vote right, in their opinion.

A president of the United States should never apologize for anything the United States does, ever.

We want to make sure those C-130s do not leave Texas. There is no apparent military or strategic necessity to do it.

If you can't fire somebody for interfering with a prayer said over a veteran's grave you can't fire anybody for anything.

No one in the Federal government can be held accountable and that is really the root of the problem.

Talking about it does not make it so.

Not one dime. But not even a dollar. You didn't even get a dollar for NASA. That is pathetic.

I could not agree more strongly with the comments of my good friend Mr. Schiff that the President's budget is clearly putting the best days of planetary exploration behind us.

It is visionless. I just grieve for my country.

the scale of theft that China has engaged in exceeds anything we have ever seen in history

we are going to make sure we obviously are doing everything we can do to make sure America stays number one in the cutting edge of scientific research and in graduating scientists and engineers

There is nothing more important, actually nothing more important in our lives than our children, our families, and so we understand that.

I want to reassure the gentleman from Maryland. And as we all recall, the Military Construction and VA Appropriations bill passed the House almost unanimously because all of us in this Congress are arm in arm in support of our veterans, in…

I chair the Veterans Administration and Military Construction Subcommittee in Appropriations, and I assure you we all work arm in arm together. My friend, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, and I will make sure veterans are taken care of. We will…

Just for a friendly conversation. Truly, there's nothing misleading. We're doing this in the light of day. What we're, through this reform, going to do, Mr. Van Hollen, is have these hearings in public, in front of C-SPAN and the world…

My hero, Thomas Jefferson, always said that if you apply core principle to any problem, no matter how difficult, the knot will always untie itself. It was true then, and it's true today. If we would apply the core principles of the…

We're sending this bill back to conference because we share Speaker John Boehner's core governing principle to do the right thing for the right reasons for the country. And the right thing to do here is to make sure nobody's payroll taxes…

I first of all want to thank the Congressman from Virginia. Bob Goodlatte has been a relentless and tireless advocate for balancing the budget of the United States of America with a constitutional amendment. And we are here tonight…