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Lowey Statement to Rules Committee on Puerto Rico Earthquake Supplemental

February 5, 2020

"While President Trump has finally released some of the aid Congress appropriated for those hurricanes, more support is clearly needed. We must act now on our shared responsibility to assist Americans in need."

Chair McCollum Statement at Hearing on Challenges and Opportunities Around Strengthening Community Recycling Programs

February 5, 2020

Statements

"We need to carefully navigate the dangers of the current recycling crisis. But, we should also seize this opportunity to make long-overdue investments that grow America’s circular economy."

Subcommittees

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Issues:Interior and Environment

Chairwoman Kaptur Statement at Hearing on DOE’s Role in Advancing Biomedical Sciences

February 5, 2020

Statements

"Given the unique, scientific tools and personnel of the Department of Energy and its national labs, and the potential for future breakthroughs in health-related fields, it seems especially important for the Department of Energy to increase its coordination and collaborations with the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies. This will give the best chances of developing new innovations in biomedical sciences to unlock the hidden mysteries of the human brain, retool the human body when it has been broken, save lives, and sustain life on earth."

Subcommittees

Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Issues:Energy and Water

Lowey, DeLauro Urge Administration to Request Emergency Funding for Coronavirus Response

February 4, 2020

Press Release

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today urged the Trump administration to transmit a request to Congress for emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.

Issues:Labor, HHS, Education

Subcommittees

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Lowey Introduces Puerto Rico Earthquake Supplemental

January 28, 2020

Press Release

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), today introduced an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to provide support to Puerto Rico following a series of recent earthquakes. The legislation is expected to be considered in the House next week.

The legislation provides $4.67 billion in assistance to Puerto Rico, with significant funding for educational needs, repairs to transportation infrastructure, and community development activities.

Subcommittees

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

House Democrats Release Puerto Rico Earthquake Supplemental

January 16, 2020

Press Release

The legislation provides $3.35 billion in assistance to Puerto Rico, with significant funding for educational needs, repairs to transportation infrastructure, and community development activities.

Issues:Labor, HHS, Education

Subcommittees

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Lowey Statement on GAO Declaring Trump’s Ukraine Aid Withholding Illegal

January 16, 2020

Press Release

“Congress makes funding decisions, and the Trump Administration’s illegal impoundment of these vital national security funds was a brazen assault on the checks and balances inherent to our democracy. Given that this illegal conduct threatened our security and undermined our elections, I feel even more strongly that the House has chosen the right course by impeaching President Trump. No one is above the law."

Lowey, Price Statement on Long Overdue Disaster Funding for Puerto Rico

January 15, 2020

Press Release

"“As appropriators, we have fought for the release of the aid by questioning Secretary Carson, establishing a legal deadline for agency action, conducting an oversight hearing with HUD officials and the Inspector General, and withholding money from the Department in the most recent appropriations bill. It should never have come to this."

Issues:Transportation, HUD

Subcommittees

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Lowey, Visclosky and Wasserman Schultz Statement on Trump's Latest Wall Theft

January 14, 2020

Press Release

"Make no mistake: This decision will make Americans less safe, burden more military families, and do further violence to the Constitutional separation of powers that are inherent to our democracy.”

Issues:DefenseMilitary Construction, VA

Subcommittees

Defense (116th Congress)

Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)

Interior and Environment Subcommittee Announces Public Witness Hearing Dates

January 8, 2020

Press Release

WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies will hold public witness hearings on February 6 for non-tribal programs, and February 11 and 12 for tribal programs.

In addition to the public witness hearings, written testimony will be accepted in accordance with the guidelines below. All written testimony will be reviewed by the subcommittee and will be included in the public record. Click here for an example of written testimony.

Public Witness Hearing (non-tribal programs)

Issues:Interior and Environment

Subcommittees

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (116th Congress)