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Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after House and Senate Leaders reached a budget agreement:
"Since the beginning of this year's budget and appropriations process, Democrats have called for relief from damaging austerity-level budget cuts so that Congress can enact spending laws that invest in this nation's future.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee, today renewed their call to end the twenty-year prohibition on federal funding on research related to gun violence.
On Wednesday, September 30th – the last day of Fiscal Year 2015 – the House of Representatives will consider a Continuing Resolution maintaining government funding at its current spend rate through December 11, 2015.
The Continuing Resolution does not include language restricting federal Medicaid reimbursements or Title X family planning grants to Planned Parenthood.
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Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today delivered the following statement on the FY2016 Continuing Resolution:
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the Senate majority's Continuing Resolution and the House majority's continued inaction.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on Speaker Boehner's refusal to rule out adding language on the JCPOA to an upcoming Continuing Resolution:
"With a mere seven legislative days remaining before another pointless and damaging government shutdown, it is astounding that Republican leadership is still entertaining attaching poison pill riders to a Continuing Resolution.
Today, U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Vice Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee issued the following joint statement on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees completing markups of all 12 Appropriations bills:
Last week's disaster on the House floor demonstrates again the need to get serious about the Appropriations process. Instead of continuing along a track even the Chairman acknowledges is "next to impossible" to accomplish, Republicans and Democrats should develop a new budget deal that allows responsible investments in public safety and other critical priorities.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on Chairman Ken Calvert's Confederate battle flag amendment and the Republican leadership's subsequent decision to pull the Interior & Environment Appropriations bill from the House floor:
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on a GOP amendment introduced by the Chairman of the Interior and Environment Subcommittee defending the Confederate flag on federal property: