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FY 2016 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Act
Highlights and Key Points
The 2016 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill fails to protect the safety and security of hardworking Americans, proposing massive cuts to critical community policing services, law enforcement grants, and priorities important to coastal communities. Further, the bill expands ideological policy riders benefiting special interests to undermine gun safety laws.
Previous Commerce, Justice, and Science Bills
Fiscal Year 2014
Fiscal Year 2013
Highlights of 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Act
2014 enacted: $51.6 billion
2015 President's request: $51.0 billion
2015 Committee mark: $51.2 billion
The Chairman's mark provides:
· $5.3 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is $10.5 million less than the FY2014 level and $163.6 million less than the request.
I rise to offer to the House our support for the base bill. The chairman of this committee, whom I have had the honor to work with for a number of years, has laid out in some detail some of the appropriations in this bill. And as our Constitution requires, no dollar out of our Treasury shall be appropriated, except by act of Congress. So we are here in our constitutional roles.
Neuroscience funding was one of several key priorities championed by Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) that received a boost in today's full Appropriations Committee markup of the FY 15 Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Appropriations Act. As Ranking Member of the CJS Subcommittee, Fattah helped steer more $51.2 billion in net discretionary funding to the Departments of Justice and Commerce, the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and other related agencies under the subcommittee's jurisdiction.