Watch Online - CW39 Houston HOUSTON — Congressman John Culberson (TX-07) and U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visited EnerVest, Ltd. Friday to participate in a roundtable with senior executives from various oil and gas companies. Following the roundtable, Culberson and Perry toured BP Energy’s U.S. headquarters in the Energy Corridor to see how the company is rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey and preparing for any future storms.
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Originally published on KPRC-TV | READ ONLINE HOUSTON - Those still rebuilding from Harvey’s wrath said the infusion of federal dollars has given them some hope. “It's taken almost a year to reconstruct and we could finish and it could do it again,” said Ann Purcell. Purcell's home on River Forest Drive near Kirkwood Road flooded twice during Harvey. The first time from the rain, the second time from the torrents of water released into Buffalo Bayou from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs. “It ta...
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Originally published in The Hill | READ ONLINE SpaceX was in the middle of the successful launch of a Bangladeshi communications satellite when NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the Mars 2020 rover mission would also carry a small, helicopter drone. “Our next rover to Mars will carry the first helicopter ever to fly over the surface of another world.” Even though the commercial space world was in the midst of being thrilled at the latest version of the SpaceX Falcon 9, Bridenstin...
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Originally published in the Houston Chronicle | By Andrea Rumbaugh U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, expressed concern to NASA contractors about the timeline for launching the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft during a visit to his hometown on Monday. Exploration Mission-1, an unmanned trek that will take SLS and Orion past the moon, is slated to launch in December 2019 and contractors and suppliers continue to work toward that. But, as previously announced, that date will likely be pushed to s...
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By Kevin Diaz, April 18, 2018 | READ ONLINE WASHINGTON – One of the lessons Houstonians learned from Hurricane Harvey last August was that urban flooding often happens outside recognized floodplains. Congress, awakened by the torrent of floods and hurricanes in 2017, is now looking at legislation that would update local flood maps and help the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) manage future floods. The bipartisan Flood Mapping Modernization and Homeowner Empowerment Pilot Program Act of...
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By Rebecca Elliot | Originally Published in the Houston Chronicle Five Houston-area congressmen are urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to accept Houston's idea of using volunteer hours as an alternate way to pay the city's required local match for federal disaster grants. The letter sent Tuesday to FEMA Administrator Brock Long is signed by U.S. Reps. John Culberson (R-Houston), Brian Babin (R-Woodville), Pete Olson (R-Sugar Land), Gene Green (D-Houston) and Al Green (D-Houston). "We...
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Washington D.C. - Representative John Culberson (TX-07) released the following statement today after the House passed the STOP School Violence Act: "Every school should be a safe-haven, and every child deserves to feel protected there. Today, I was proud to support the STOP School Violence Act of 2018, which will include new violence prevention training for students and school personnel, anonymous reporting systems, improved local law enforcement coordination, and updated security technology. “E...
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CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY | March 12, 2018 | READ ONLINE By Jennifer Shutt, CQ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration could soon begin to turn its attention away from the International Space Station and toward deep space exploration projects, including missions to Mars. In its $19.9 billion fiscal 2019 budget request, NASA proposed the United States cease direct federal investment in the International Space Station by 2025, in part so the agency can focus more on projects that will ai...
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By Lise Olsen | February 23, 2018 | READ ONLINE Rep. John Culberson called on the U.S. Justice Department Friday to investigate whether the Army Corps of Engineers violated civil or criminal laws by failing to alert the public to its own forecasts showing that Hurricane Harvey could cause the Corps' two West Houston reservoirs to flood suburban neighborhoods. "If it is accurate that (the Corps) knew in advance of this threat to lives and property yet failed to adequately warn, I believe those re...
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By Jen Para | Houston Business Journal | READ ONLINE There were a lot of tears and laughter at the grand opening celebration of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston's new building. The event was held Feb. 21 on the ground floor of the new $8.4 million structure at 1003 Washington Ave. The 21,000-square-foot building nearly doubles the amount of space the organization previously occupied. "This is just a gigantic upgrade," Pierce Bush, CEO of BBBS Lone Star, said at the event. "We're in th...
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