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Financial Services and General Government (115th Congress)

Membership

  • Mike Quigley, Ranking Member
  • José Serrano
  • Matt Cartwright
  • Sanford Bishop

Jurisdiction

  • Department of the Treasury
  • District of Columbia
  • The Judiciary
  • Executive Office of the President (Compensation of the President, Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Residence at the White House, Federal Drug Control Programs, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, National Security Council, Office of Administration, Office of Management and Budget, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Office of Policy Development, Official Residence of the Vice President, Special Assistance to the President, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Unanticipated Needs, White House Office, White House Repair and Restoration)
  • Independent Agencies
    • Administrative Conference of the United States 
    • Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation 
    • Consumer Product Safety Commission 
    • Election Assistance Commission 
    • Federal Communications Commission 
    • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General 
    • Federal Election Commission 
    • Federal Labor Relations Authority 
    • Federal Trade Commission 
    • General Services Administration 
    • Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation 
    • Merit Systems Protection Board 
    • Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation 
    • National Archives and Records Administration 
    • National Credit Union Administration 
    • National Historical Publications and Records Commission 
    • Office of Government Ethics 
    • Office of Personnel Management and Related Trust Funds 
    • Office of Special Counsel
    • Securities and Exchange Commission 
    • Selective Service System 
    • Small Business Administration 
    • United States Postal Service, Payment to the Postal Service Fund, Postal Regulatory Commission and Office of Inspector General
    • United States Tax Court
  • General Provisions, Governmentwide
Recent Activity
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In the wake of an indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller detailing Russian intrusion into state election systems during the 2016 election, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Quigley (D-IL) today urged House Republicans to restore funding for election security grants.

In the FY 2018 omnibus spending bill, House Democrats secured $380 million for election security grants to help states fortify and protect election systems from cyber-hacking. However, House Republicans have zeroed out funding for election security grants in the FY 2019 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, which is expected to be considered in the House next week.

Given its flat allocation of $23.4 billion, this bill does not adequately meet the growing needs of our small businesses, taxpayers, or middle-class consumers and investors.
The Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Services bill is inadequate at best and negligent at worst. It is outrageous that this Republican raw deal does not include a dime for direct assistance to state governments for election security, yet last month we approved subcommittee allocations in which the largest non-defense increase will presumably pave the way to fund President Trump’s border wall and deportation force.
I must unfortunately oppose the bill before us today. Given its flat allocation of $23.4 billion, this bill does not adequately meet the growing needs of our small businesses, taxpayers, or middle-class consumers and investors.
Our committee should focus on the threat right in front of our noses and secure our elections system, not waste billions of dollars on one of the President’s campaign promises that will not make us safer.