Ranking Member Hoyer Floor Remarks on Final 2024 Government Funding Package

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and Generation Government Ranking Member Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024:

The Financial Services bill is a good bill. It's the responsible alternative. Thirdly, it is ironic that the group that has made compromise the most difficult over the last year continues to oppose compromise.

Legislative action is about compromise. This is a responsible compromise, as so many of the chairs of the subcommittees on the Republican side have said. The alternative is the least responsible action that we could take.

I urge my colleagues to vote for this bill as the responsible, effective alternative — notwithstanding the fact that the operations up to this point of the Appropriations Committee have not been what they ought to be, and we all understand that.

But it is our collective failure caused, as I said, by a group who does not want compromise. Pass this bill.

America needs this bill. It is a shame it's not going to be followed by passing aid for Ukraine. I yield back the balance of my time.

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