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December 11, 2014
As we all know, funding to keep the government operating expires at midnight tonight. It is my sincere hope that we can avoid the antics of last year when a vocal minority in this body was able to hold the entire government hostage for reasons they couldn’t articulate. It wasn’t fair to the American people, and I hope we never have to go through it again.
December 9, 2014
The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act is comprised of 11 FY2015 Appropriations bills and a Continuing Resolution maintaining the current rate of Homeland Security funding until February 27th, 2015.
December 9, 2014

2014 Omnibus: $50.9 billion

2015 Request: $59.9 billion

2015 Omnibus: $53.8 billion

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December 9, 2014

2014 Total enacted level: $49.0 billion

2015 Committee mark: $48.29 billion

2015 Omnibus: $49.27 billion (not including $2.526 billion in emergency funds for Ebola)

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December 9, 2014

2014 enacted level: $73.2 billion

2015 base budget request: $71.9 billion

2015 Omnibus base: $71.8 billion

2015 OCO: $221 million

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December 9, 2014

2014 enacted level: $156.8 billion

2015 Request: $158.1 billion

2015 Omnibus: $156.8 billion

2015 emergency funding for Ebola: $2.7 billion

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December 9, 2014

2014 enacted level: $4.26 billion

2015 budget request: $4.47 billion

2015 Omnibus: $4.30 billion

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December 9, 2014

2014 enacted level: $30.058 billion

2015 budget request: $30.620 billion

2015 Omnibus: $30.044 billion

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December 9, 2014

The agreement includes a Continuing Resolution until February 27th for agencies within the Homeland Security Subcommittee. The agreement maintains the Fiscal Year 2014 spend rate of $39.270 billion.

Additional provisions in the current CR and carried forward under the new CR:

  1. Extends the authorization for the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards (CFATS) program;
  2. Extends the authority for the Science & Technology Directorate to enter into Other Transaction Agreements (OTA);
  3. Provides authority for ICE and CBP to obligate funding at rates necessary to sustain staffing, border security and immigration enforcement operations, and Air and Marine operations, and requires compliance with the 34,000 detention bed mandate.

Additional provisions included under the new CR:

December 9, 2014

2014 Total enacted level: $22.07 billion

2015 Committee mark: $20.35 billion

2015 Omnibus: $21.82 billion

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