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House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers has announced that a bi-partisan, bi-cameral agreement on spending for the remainder of the fiscal year has been reached. The agreement between House, Senate, and White House negotiators will prevent a government shutdown, fund the entire federal government until September 30, 2011, and provide essential funding for national defense. In addition, the legislation will cut approximately tens of billions in federal spending – representing the largest non-defense spending cut in the history of the nation.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today offered legislation on the floor of the House to prevent a government shutdown by extending federal funding for one additional week. The bill will provide time for House and Senate negotiators to come to a final budget agreement, while funding the Department of Defense – including pay for troops and their families – for the rest of the fiscal year.
The floor statement by Chairman Rogers follows:
The House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch will hold their Member and Public Witness hearing on May 11, 2011, at 11:00 AM.
Full instructions for submissions and requests to appear can be found here. Please click here to find the witness disclosure form.
Please email jennifer.kisiah@mail.house.gov with requests to appear and for any further information.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced another temporary funding measure – known as a Continuing Resolution (CR) – to prevent a government shutdown for an additional week while cutting a total of $12 billion in discretionary spending. The measure also includes funding for the Department of Defense for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Rogers' statement and a summary of this legislation follows:
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put aside political games and budget gimmicks to come to a final budget agreement that includes real, substantive spending cuts to help put the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
The statement by Chairman Rogers follows:
The House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies has issued instructions for Members and Outside Witness Testimony for Fiscal Year 2012.
These instructions can be found here: /_files/OutsideWitnessInstructionsAgApprops.pdf
If you have any questions, please contact the staff at (202) 225-2638.
There is no question that if Chairman Obey was permitted to write this bill on his own, it would be a much better product. Instead, the House is being asked to consider a spending bill that reflects the priorities of Speaker Pelosi and a deeply divided Democratic Caucus. If attempts to bridge these widening division over the War in Iraq by delivering billions of dollars in unrelated and unauthorized spending under an emergency designation.
Mr. Chairman and colleagues, I rise this morning to express my opposition to this Emergency Supplemental as it is presently written.
Contact: Jim Specht (202) 225-5861
WASHINGTON – CongressmanJerry Lewis , the ranking Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Fiscal Year 2007 Supplemental Spending bill that is vitally needed to support our troops:
Appropriations Committee Ranking Member, Jerry Lewis (R-CA), today announced the Republican ranking members and members of the committee for the 110th Congress. The GOP Steering Committee unanimously approved the ranking member selections earlier today and formal approval by the GOP Conference is expected.
