In part two of The Hub’s exclusive interview, Evan Dixon asks U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, about his role in the partial government shutdown that captured national media attention last October and his encounter with a National Park Service ranger that went viral during the standstill.
Dixon and Neugebauer discuss the lawmaker’s thoughts on the continuing debt ceiling debate in Congress that aggravated the ongoing stalemate in Washington and his reactions from his confrontation with the federal employee at the World War II Memorial.
Congress continues to debate whether or not it should raise the U.S. borrowing limit. Today the House voted to raise the country’s borrowing limit until March 2015. Neugebauer, who voted against the bipartisan legislation, issued this statement in response:
“I won’t vote to keep extending our credit without making any reforms to the spending habits that keep pushing us up against our debt ceiling.”
To learn Neugebauer’s thoughts on the upcoming GOP primary elections, the recently passed farm bill, the Affordable Care Act or whether or not he would like to become chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, check out The Hub’s other installments from our dialogue with the lawmaker from West Texas.
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