Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Membership
- Sanford Bishop, Ranking Member
- Rosa DeLauro
- Chellie Pingree
- Mark Pocan
Jurisdiction
- Department of Agriculture (except Forest Service)
- Farm Credit Administration
- Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Food and Drug Administration (HHS)
I'd like to thank Chairman Aderholt, Ranking Member Bishop, and Chairman Frelinghuysen for their work on this bill.
As we begin our fourth subcommittee markup, it is difficult to limit our discussion to how the Department of Agriculture, FDA, and CFTC are being shortchanged. After all, today's markup is occurring concurrently with the House Budget Committee again failing to advance a budget resolution.
So three months from the end of this fiscal year, there is no budget, no plan to address the inadequate spending caps or the harmful sequester, and no strategy to raise the debt limit. At our full committee markups, the majority has not even proposed a full slate of 302b allocations. For the sake of our national security, schools, roads and bridges, clean air and water, and much more, the American people deserve better than this dysfunction.
Thank you for yielding Mr. Chairman.
As Chairman, you have always set a cooperative tone and I want to thank you for continuing to be inclusive as we work through this process. I believe the Chairman has worked very hard with very limited time and an even more limited allocation to get to this point. Though the President's draconian request gave me severe concerns about what this bill would look like, I am pleased that you've rejected so much of it outright.