In the early hours of Sept. 23, 2022, authorities arrived outside the Houck family’s home in Kintnersville in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
On the day of Houck’s arrest, his wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, told CNA that an FBI SWAT team made up of 25 agents and 15 vehicles showed up outside the family’s home “pounding” on the door.
Facing 11 years in prison, Houck was acquitted by a jury after only an hour of deliberation.
Protecting the people of Pennsylvania’s 1st District from what the federal government subjected him to is “the fundamental reason” Houck decided to run.
If elected, Houck expressed his desire to serve on the newly formed Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, which investigates “violations of the civil liberties of citizens of the United States.”
“I’d like to get on that committee, and I’d like to be the face that the Democratic Party cannot ignore and the story that cannot be ignored,” Houck said. “My presence in D.C. will maintain that story, and they can’t run from it.”