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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:
Ranking Member Lewis announces intent to offer Senate FISA bill as part of the emergency war supplemental
WAR COSTS: What we get for the money
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According the Democrat majority on the House Appropriations Committee, the war in Iraq is costing our country $339 million every day.
While the price of war is high, the American people get an incalculable return on their investment in the security of our country, in the spread of freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East, and in the hope of a world free from the threat of terror.
