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The Fiscal Year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Act appropriates $1.067 trillion in base discretionary budget authority, pursuant to the two-year budget agreement enacted in November 2015, including:

• $548.091 billion in base defense spending; and
• $518.491 billion in base non-defense spending.

Additionally, the Omnibus Appropriations Act provides $73.693 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding, including:

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) today issued the following statement regarding ending the ban on federal research on gun violence:

"More than 30,000 gun deaths occur every year in the United States of America. These are our husbands and wives, parents, sons and daughters, and friends. As a country, we cannot become immune to this daily tragedy plaguing our communities.

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 30^th – 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.