Press Releases
Thank you, Chairman Dent, Ranking Member Bishop, and Chairman Rogers for your work on this bill.
Thank you for yielding Mr. Chairman.
From your first day as Chairman, you have 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 to get to this point. I am pleased with several aspects of the bill.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today sent the following letter to Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), urging him to schedule consideration of Appropriations bills that fund key federal investigative and law enforcement agencies.
Full letter follows:
Thank you Mr. Chairman. I want to welcome Dr. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, as well as Dr. Lowy, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Hodes, and Dr. Volkow – thank you all for being here this morning to discuss the 2017 budget request for NIH.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Secretary Perez, for joining us this morning, and for your leadership on behalf of American workers and their families.
Administrator Smith, I welcome you, again, to the helm of USAID, and I am pleased to have you here today. USAID continues to play an indispensable role in spearheading global development efforts, and I’m sure we’ll see even greater achievements under your leadership.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the House Republican majority’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget resolution:
“Good morning, Director Saldaña, and welcome to this morning’s hearing.
Secretary Lew, I join Chairwoman Granger in welcoming you here today, and I thank you for your service to our country.
“Director Clancy, welcome to this morning’s hearing.
“I know the past few years have been challenging for the Secret Service, but I am very hopeful that you have now turned a corner on putting the agency back on the right track.