Labrador Returns Office Money

Congressman Raúl Labrador (ID-01) participated in a press conference today with fellow conservative freshman members to request Speaker John Boehner direct their offices’ leftover funds of nearly $1.5 million to pay down the national debt.  Congressman Labrador will return approximately $300,000 or 21 percent of the money his office was allotted for Fiscal Year 2011. In a letter addressed to Speaker Boehner, eight conservative freshman members said: “We understand that regular order prescribes the unused portions of our MRAs to languish in a shared fund for two years before being transferred to the Treasury. Following this procedure at a time when our public debt surpasses the size of our very economy makes little fiscal sense and is a poor representation of this House’s commitment to fiscal responsibility”/ Ellen L. Carmichael , press secretary of Congressman Raul Labrador. More here .

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Question: What do you make of this gesture by Labrador and the 7 other conservative congressmen?