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WASHINGTON – House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) delivered the following remarks at the first meeting of the conference committee on Homeland Security appropriations today.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very important and unique charge in front of us today.

We have approximately 2 ½ weeks to come up with an agreement to secure our border, pass it through both the House and Senate, and get it to the President's desk for a signature.

WASHINGTON – House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX), the top Republican on the Committee, delivered the following remarks at the panel's first organizational meeting of the year.

Thank you, Chairwoman Lowey. I would like to begin by congratulating you, not only for becoming the chair of this great Committee, but for being the first woman to hold the gavel.

WASHINGTON – Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) announced Republican subcommittee assignments for the 116^th Congress.

"I am very proud of the team we've put together. I look forward to working with each of them to ensure the priorities of the American people are reflected in the work of this Committee," said Granger.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration

WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX), issued the following statement in response to an agreement to reopen the federal government.

WASHINGTON – Today, a majority of House Democrats voted against a measure put forward by House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) to immediately pay federal workers. This was the third time Granger, the top Republican on the Committee, has put forward the measure in the last week—and the third time Democrats have put politics above federal employees.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) released the following statement today in response to a compromise proposal put forward by President Trump to secure the border and reopen the government.

WASHINGTON – House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) introduced a motion on the House floor yesterday to ensure federal employees receive pay immediately while Members of Congress and the White House continue working towards a permanent solution that reopens the government and funds border security.

WASHINGTON – House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-TX) went to the House floor today to speak in opposition to yet another bill by House Democrats that will not reopen the federal government or provide for border security:

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 268, the Supplemental Appropriations Act for 2019.