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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.
Supplemental “deal” just another budget gimmick
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), Ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Democrat leadership’s plan to bring the emergency war supplemental legislation – which would include a new tax on the American public to offset the cost of $51 billion veterans’ entitlement program – to the House floor:
Lewis Introduces H.R. 6026 – A Clean Supplemental to Provide Troop Funding Without Strings and Extraneous Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the continued Republican opposition to the Democrats’ yet-unseen supplemental war funding legislation, today Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif), Ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a separate war funding bill (H.R. 6026) as an alternative to the Democrats’ catch-all spending proposal*.
Fuzzy Math and Funny Rules –
Democrats seek to hide true cost of supplemental spending bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Even as Republican Appropriators continue their protest of emergency war supplemental process today, the Democrat leadership has gone yet another step further to hide the truth about the size of this massive funding bill from the American public.
Ranking Member Lewis and Republican Appropriators to protest “unprecedented” war supplemental process
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Jerry Lewis, Ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, made the following statement today regarding the Democrat leadership’s unprecedented attempts to supersede the normal legislative process on a massive emergency war supplemental funding bill:
