Labrador turns back $300K from office budget to help pay off national debt

Congressman Raul Labrador announced today that he’s turning back in about $300,000, or 21 percent of the money his congressional office was allotted for fiscal year 2011; he joined a group of other freshman lawmakers to turn back a total of nearly $1.5 million in leftover office funds. Labrador said he and the others want the money used to help pay down the national debt. “It is my hope that many more of my colleagues will join us in our efforts to pay down our national debt and restore the American Dream for generations to come,” Labrador said; you can read his announcement here .