OPINION: 660 wordsFor Immediate Release: September 6, 2011This past week the nation was reminded that our economic recovery has stalled, as the Labor Department announced that ZERO new jobs had been created in the month of August. Only 85,000 jobs were added, and with a minimum 125,000 needed just to keep up with population growth, that left us with zero job… Read more »
For Immediate Release: September 2, 2011(ROUND ROCK, TEXAS) – The weak economic recovery was brought to a stop in August as a direct result of the Obama Administration’s continued deficit spending and tidal wave of job-killing new regulations, according to House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter.“This halt in job growth was unfortunately what we all knew would… Read more »
For Immediate Release: August 8, 2011(ROUND ROCK, TEXAS) – House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter today called for replacement of the Budget Control Act passed into law last week with a new debt reduction plan that will cut at least an additional $2 trillion in spending over the next ten years, in light of the U.S. credit downgrade and market losses. “We… Read more »
House Approves Debt Ceiling Increase with Historic Course Change in Federal Fiscal Policy Congressman John Carter (R-TX31) tonight voted to pass the Budget Control Act, after final Congressional Budget Office scoring showed the bill cut spending more than the increase in the debt limit.“This bill did not cut spending as much as I wanted, and increased borrowing more than I wanted,… Read more »
For immediate release: July 29, 2011A year-long campaign by Congressman John Carter to save the Portland cement industry from faulty new jobs-killing EPA regulations has paid off with breakthrough bipartisan legislation.Carter today praised the introduction of H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, by U.S. Representatives John Sullivan (R-OK) and Mike Ross (D-AR),… Read more »
For immediate release: July 28, 2011Quick action by a Texas gun dealer and local police apparently stopped another planned attack on Fort Hood soldiers, and Congressman John Carter (R-TX) says those actions should be studied and emulated nationwide.The suspect is now identified as U.S. Army PFC Naser Abdo, 21, a native of Garland, Texas. Abdo is reported AWOL since July 4 from… Read more »
For immediate release: July 28, 2011House Army Caucus Co-Chairman John Carter (R-TX31) is praising Killeen police and a local gun dealer who have apparently stopped another attack on Fort Hood through early detection and teamwork “Thanks to quick action by a Texas gun dealer in alerting local police to a suspicious character, and a prompt and vigorous response by the Killeen… Read more »
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2011(ROUND ROCK, TX) – A small group of MoveOn.org members answered President’s Obama’s call to visit congressional offices over the debt ceiling debate, but so did a very large number of Tea Party conservatives, as Congressman John Carter’s Round Rock office served as an informal political forum this week, with donuts, coffee and… Read more »
