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Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), Ranking Member of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of the fiscal year 2025 Financial Services and General Government funding bill:

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm pleased that you can join us.

Mr. Chairman, I have been on this subcommittee for a very long time — took a break for about 23 years — and I am very concerned about process. So let me talk about that first.

My concept of a subcommittee is a group of Members who take a special focus on a relatively small part of the budget. That's not true of the Defense Committee because that's a majority of our discretionary budget, but all the other subcommittees presumably become experts on a certain portion of the money that we run our government with.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee markup of the fiscal year 2025 Financial Services and General Government funding bill:

Thank you Chairman Cole, and thank you Subcommittee Chairman Joyce, Ranking Member Hoyer, and the subcommittee staff for all their work, especially Matt Smith and Philip Tizzani.

Let me get right to it: the funding level and policy riders in this Financial Services and General Government bill put forth by the majority are unacceptable.

House Republicans again propose cutting critical agencies that make the economy fairer and safer for the American people by a staggering $2.6 billion.