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2017 mark: $21.3 billion

2017 request: $21.6 billion

2016 enacted: $21.75 billion

The Chairman’s mark provides:

2017 mark: $37.444 billion
2017 budget request: $37.185 billion
2016 enacted: $37.276 billion

The Chairman’s mark provides:

WASHINGTON - 394 Members of Congress signed a bipartisan letter urging President Obama to veto possible upcoming one-sided initiatives in the United Nations concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

2017 mark: $81.6 billion (including OCO)

2017 OCO: $172 million

2016 Enacted: $79.9 billion

2016 OCO: $0

President's Request: $82.8 billion (including OCO)

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: $5.6 billion, which is $120 million less than the President’s budget request, is provided for Military Construction programs.

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Administration’s efforts to halt the spread of the Zika virus domestically and internationally:

Thank you, Chairman Dent, Ranking Member Bishop, and Chairman Rogers for your work on this bill.

Mr. Chairman, before I turn to the Military Construction-VA bill, I must note that for months, we have heard commitments from Republican leadership that the budget and appropriations process will return to regular order and adhere to the bipartisan agreement enacted in late 2015. Yet at our first markup, the House still has not passed a budget, the smart money says we never will, and the Speaker is threatening to keep appropriations bills off the floor unless a budget is passed.

Thank you for yielding Mr. Chairman.

From your first day as Chairman, you have set a cooperative tone and I want to thank you for continuing to be inclusive as we work through this process. I believe the Chairman has worked very hard with very limited time to get to this point. I am pleased with several aspects of the bill.