'This administration has overreached more often than any other administration in my memory and the only tool that seems to deter them is the power of the purse,' says Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas
This GOP Congressman Is Working to Defund Obama’s Executive Gun Control Measures
By Heritage Foundation Natalie Johnson——Bio and Archives--January 8, 2016
President Barack Obama detailed his plan to work around lawmakers to implement tougher gun control measures, but the Republican-held Congress holds the keys for funding the administration’s changes.
Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee in charge of financing the Justice Department, threatened to defund the agency should the White House move forward with its unilateral gun actions described Tuesday by Obama.
“I will not sit by and permit our Second Amendment rights to be diminished or damaged in any way when I have the duty as chairman of this subcommittee to ensure that our hard-earned tax dollars are spent in strict accordance with the Constitution and federal law, period,” Culberson told The Daily Signal.
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