1. John Abney Culberson was born on August 24,1956 and is an American attorney and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2019.
24 Facts About John Culberson
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John Culberson graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1981 with a degree in history.
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John Culberson earned his Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law in 1989.
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John Culberson was a member of the Republican Whip team, becoming Minority Whip in 1999 during his last term.
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John Culberson began working for the law firm of Lorance and Thompson as a civil defense attorney after he graduated from law school.
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John Culberson won the Republican nomination for the 7th District in 2000 after 15-term incumbent Bill Archer announced his retirement.
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John Culberson used social media services Twitter and Qik to provide a live account of the proceedings.
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John Culberson later compared this episode to the Iranian government's crackdown against dissidents who used Twitter to protest a restriction on foreign media in June 2009.
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John Culberson was challenged by the Democratic nominee James Cargas, an energy lawyer for the City of Houston, Green party nominee Lance Findley, and Libertarian Drew Parks.
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John Culberson polled 44,202 votes to James Lloyd's 19,182 and the third candidate, Maria Espinoza's 13,772.
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John Culberson secured his eighth term in the general election held on November 8, when, with 143,542 votes, he defeated the Democrat James Cargas was born on 1966 and of Houston, who garnered 111,991 ballots.
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John Culberson held his own in his longtime base of west Houston and Memorial, much of which he'd represented for over three decades at the state and federal levels.
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John Culberson generally opposed an income tax increase, opposed reducing defense spending in order to balance the budget, opposed federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth, and supported lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth.
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John Culberson was the only Texas Republican to support the $50.7 billion relief effort after Hurricane Sandy.
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John Culberson was the first person to endorse Ted Cruz in the 2016 US presidential primaries.
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John Culberson supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to suspend the refugee resettlement program and curtail immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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John Culberson has alleged that scientists have falsified climate change data.
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John Culberson opposes cap-and-trade programs and the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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In 2016, John Culberson wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch threatening to block President Obama's executive order on guns by defunding the United States Department of Justice.
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John Culberson opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and supported its repeal.
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On May 4,2017, John Culberson voted to repeal Obamacare and pass the American Health Care Act of 2017.
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In 2009, John Culberson co-sponsored legislation to enforce citizenship requirements on presidential candidates by requiring all future presidential candidates to provide proof of their citizenship when filing to run for office.
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John Culberson opposes requiring states to adopt federal education standards.
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John Culberson was a strong advocate for the multiple flyby and lander missions to the Jovian moon Europa.