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March 9, 2022
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"This package makes historic investments in the middle class and people who are living paycheck to paycheck. They deserve a government that, instead of catering to the wealthy and big corporations, bends over backwards to support them. By providing a 6.7 percent increase for non-defense funding – the largest increase in four years – that is exactly what we are doing."
March 9, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) this afternoon introduced H.R. 7007, a standalone supplemental to help manage the coronavirus pandemic at home and around the world.
March 9, 2022
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"The funding in this bill expands child care and early learning programs, it strengthens public schools, it makes college more affordable, and it bolsters job training. It puts people to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, our bridges, our transit systems, water infrastructure. It unlocks the funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and the Jobs Act. And, as I know Members on both sides of the dais appreciate, we are directly investing in all of our districts through Community Project Funding for the first time in 10 years. This bill supports the vulnerable by meeting Americans’ basic needs, by strengthening nutrition assistance, funding more affordable housing, and addressing gender-based violence."
March 9, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today introduced H.R. 2471, consisting of all 12 fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills and supplemental funding to support Ukraine.
February 24, 2022
“I condemn Russia’s unwarranted and malicious invasion of Ukraine and stand with the Ukrainian people who are under attack. Vladimir Putin’s greed, growing aggression, and unyielding pursuit of power have brought us to this point, which will lead to grievous loss of life and humanitarian devastation."
February 9, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today announced that bipartisan, bicameral negotiators have agreed on a framework for fiscal year 2022 appropriations.
February 8, 2022
"This Continuing Resolution is a product of bipartisan, bicameral negotiation to keep the government up and running while Congress finishes important work for the American people,”
February 8, 2022
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“No one wins from additional Continuing Resolutions, which is why – after we pass this extension – we will finalize an omnibus that will deliver for our nation."
February 7, 2022
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“I am confident that Appropriators can agree on a framework in short order and then work with great intensity to fill in the details, so that we can enact an agreement that is worthy of the people we are here to serve. To provide the time to get that work done, the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act before you continues government funding at current levels through March 11."
February 7, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today introduced the short-term Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act, which continues federal government funding through March 11 to provide time to complete bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on fiscal year 2022 appropriations legislation.