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6 Things to Know About the 'Security Minibus'

July 20, 2017

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The House is expected to consider an Appropriations package next week made up of the Defense, Military Construction & VA, Legislative Branch, and Energy & Water Appropriations bills, in addition to funding for a border wall. Here are 6 important things to know:

It wastes $1.6 billion on a useless, immoral border wall.

The majority has indicated it will include President Trump's full 2018 request to begin construction of new sections of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Summary of FY 2018 Labor-HHS-Eduation Appropriations bill - Committee mark

July 19, 2017

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The 2018 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill is an affront to women, families, and all hard-working Americans. It would harm schools and eliminate support for teachers; dramatically cut job training opportunities; and undermine public health. Finally, the bill attacks women’s health by eliminating Title X family planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention, and removing the ability of millions of women to choose Planned Parenthood as their preferred health care provider.

Summary of FY2018 Homeland Security Appropriations bill - Committee mark

July 17, 2017

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While other bills have been severely cut, the 2018 Homeland Security Appropriations bill would waste $1.6 billion on the President’s boondoggle of a border wall and more than $700 million on thousands of new detention beds and a thousand new ICE enforcement officers, priorities that do nothing to make communities more secure.

Summary of FY 2018 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill - Committee mark

July 17, 2017

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The FY 2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill would place the health and safety of the American people at risk by slashing critical funding for climate change and environmental enforcement which threatens lives and livelihoods. Ideological policy riders continue the assault on our environment by undermining the Administration’s ability to keep our land, water, and air clean and protect threatened species.

Summary of FY 2018 Transportation, HUD, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill - Committee mark

July 17, 2017

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The Transportation-HUD bill breaks repeated promises from the Administration and the majority to invest in our nation’s infrastructure. Slashing Capital Investment grants, TIGER grants, HOME Investment Partnerships, and Community Development Block Grants will eliminate jobs and hurt communities around the country. We should be investing more - not less - in job creation and community development.

Lowey statement at subcommittee markup of FY 2018 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations bill

July 13, 2017

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I am deeply troubled both by the President’s request and the allocation for this bill, which is $10 billion below the total enacted level in FY 2017. I appreciate the Chair’s work to sustain unwavering support and robust funding for our close ally and partner Israel, as well as for Jordan, and to maintain our commitment to prioritizing development in the poorest countries.

Appropriations Democrats Introduce Amendment to Prevent Interference in Special Counsel Investigation

July 13, 2017

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Appropriations Democrats today introduced an amendment to the 2018 Commerce Justice Science Appropriations bill to prohibit use of funds to "obstruct, hinder, frustrate, impede, or prevent any investigative work" conducted by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller.

"It is imperative that Special Counsel Mueller's investigation be conducted completely free of meddling from the White House, the Department of Justice, or anyone else," said Appropriations Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY). "Daily false statements emanating from the President, his family, and his team indicate the Administration will go to any length to prevent an honest reckoning of their actions during the 2016 campaign. Congress absolutely must make it crystal clear that we will not tolerate meddling in this critical investigation."

Summary of FY 2018 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act - Committee mark

July 13, 2017

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The 2018 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill would repeal Dodd-Frank consumer financial protections, undermine the Affordable Care Act, restrict women’s access to legal health services, meddle in the District of Columbia’s internal affairs, and diminish federal assistance to states to ensure secure elections, even in the wake of confirmed meddling by foreign actors in the 2016 election.

Summary of FY2018 Commerce Justice Science Appropriations Act - Committee mark

July 13, 2017

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The 2018 CJS Appropriations bill fails to fund priorities critical to communities, including the COPS hiring program, economic development investments, legal representation for low-income Americans, and climate research, while including divisive riders relating to firearms and U.S. policy toward Cuba.

DeLauro statement at subcommittee markup of FY 2018 Labor-HHS-Eduation Appropriations bill

July 12, 2017

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The biggest economic challenge of our time is that too many people are in jobs that do not pay them enough to live on. The programs in this bill provide opportunities for hardworking Americans to improve themselves and for our economy to grow—it provides for our children to thrive through education, for job seekers to get the skills they need through job training, for workers to be protected from unjust labor practices.