Press Releases

Thank you, Chairwoman Granger and our full committee chairman, Mr. Rogers. I appreciate your efforts to include many of my and my colleagues’ priorities in the bill.

I also want to express my appreciation to the Majority staff: Anne Marie Chotvacs, Craig Higgins, Alice Hogans, Susan Adams, Clelia Alvarado, David Bortnick, Dean Koulouris and Johnnie Kaberle; as well as my staff: Steve Marchese, Erin Kolodjeski who just had a baby boy, Matt Washington, and Marin Stein.

The following statement was issued today by House Democrats on the Zika and Military Construction-VA conference committee, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Rep. José Serrano, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

“House Democrats will not sign this partisan conference report.

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today offered an amendment to the FY2017 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to prevent potential terrorists from purchasing firearms, in the first House votes on gun policy since the tragic Orlando attack that killed 49 individuals.

Democratic members of the Committee speaking in support of the amendment used their time to discuss individual victims of attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando, in order to put human faces on the issue of gun violence.

Thank you, Chairman Rogers.

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Rules Committee announcing the Republican majority will abandon open rules and restrict the content of amendments to Appropriations bills:

“After failing to adopt a budget resolution, declining to provide transparent allocations, and twisting arms to change the outcome of amendments, it is not a surprise that Republican leadership would renege on its pledge to consider Appropriations bills under open rules.

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) issued the following statement after the Energy & Water Appropriations bill failed by a vote of 112-305.

“The Energy & Water Appropriations bill contained divisive and ideological riders when it came to the floor. It was made much worse by the House’s shameful adoption of discriminatory amendments. The fact that the Republican conference brought down their own bill due to the adoption of Sean Patrick Maloney’s anti-discrimination amendment is doubly shameful.

Thank you Mr. Chairman.

I would like to thank the Chairman and his staff for their open and collaborative approach. This subcommittee has a challenging portfolio of issues and I commend the Chairman’s efforts to find solutions in another difficult budget year.

The majority’s failure to adopt a budget resolution and its piecemeal approach to the subcommittees’ 302(b) allocations made this year’s work even more difficult. Moreover, such a lack of transparency has placed the entire Committee at a disadvantage and pushed us further from regular order.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.