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June 15, 2023
My goals for the 2024 Energy and Water bill are to lower energy bills for American families, create jobs by growing and supporting a robust manufacturing sector, promote American energy independence, and out-compete China. But that’s not what this bill does.
June 15, 2023
Unfortunately, I must oppose this bill. Despite recently passing a bipartisan debt deal that included a path forward on spending levels, the majority party has chosen to turn their back on those promises and cater to the most extreme minority of their party. This bill has no chance to become law as it is written now. Americans don’t want this stand off; they want us to work together to do our jobs.
June 14, 2023
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the Report on the Suballocation of Budget Allocations for Fiscal Year 2024, also known as “302(b)s."
June 14, 2023
During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how Republicans are slashing rural investments and critical food programs.
June 14, 2023
House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft 2024 Defense funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. Instead of investing in our national security and the issues that matter most to our men and women in uniform, the bill includes irrelevant, harmful policy riders that divide our nation.
June 14, 2023
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill.
June 14, 2023
Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-02), Ranking Member of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill.
June 14, 2023
House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2024 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. With massive cuts that renege on the debt limit agreement that was just signed into law, the bill raises costs for families and weakens energy security and our ability to out-compete China.
June 13, 2023
Republicans amended the bill to correct some of their recent initiatives that would harm veterans, including the immediate rescission of $2 billion for veterans medical care in the Republicans’ Default on America Act and were shamed out of their dramatic cuts to the Toxic Exposures Fund, which was created to ensure veterans of all wars exposed to Agent Orange, burn pits, and other toxic substances would be cared for in the initial mark of their 2024 funding bill. Despite these changes, the bill still falls short, and paired with the topline allocations they released late last night, Republicans are still failing our veterans. House Democrats were united in their opposition, voting unanimously against the bill.
June 13, 2023
This is the first 2024 bill we are marking up in full committee, and despite having a bill with a topline signed into law, we are operating under unprecedented circumstances that follow a months-long saga of Republicans holding the global economy hostage and placing us on the brink of default and economic catastrophe.