Ranking Member DeLauro Floor Remarks in Support of Continuing Resolution

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of H.R. 9747, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025:

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this continuing resolution, which will avert a costly and pointless government shutdown, and provide Congress with the time required to enact bipartisan full year funding bills for 2025.

We require a continuing resolution to keep the government open because House Republicans chose to squander the second session of the 118th Congress by writing extreme and harmful funding bills based on Donald Trump’s Project 2025 manifesto, seven of which the House did not even consider because the majority knew the bills did not have the votes to pass on the Floor of the House.

It is never ideal to govern with a continuing resolution, but this is a responsible and sober measure that avoids many of the problems that would have been created with a six-month funding bill.

After the continuing resolution is enacted, the Appropriations Committees should begin bipartisan negotiations to finish full-year bills by December 20th. This will be a difficult task.

We must address significant shortfalls in veterans’ health care, disaster relief, and other priorities. These problems demand bipartisan solutions, and so we must drop poison pill riders and massive cuts to the services that American families depend on so that this Congress can finish its work.

No matter who wins in November, we owe it to the next Congress and the next President to not saddle them with yesterday’s problems.

We know where we must end up, and it is my hope that this bill will provide the bipartisan momentum needed to arrive there.

I urge your support, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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