Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 6833, a short-term continuing resolution extending government funding through December 16th.

I oppose this CR for several reasons.

First, we should be here addressing the border crisis, the energy crisis, and the inflation crisis. This bill does nothing to fix any of these issues.

Madam Chair, thank you for yielding.

The revised allocations presented today do not change the spending levels that were adopted on a party-line vote last week. Because there are no substantive changes, I must once again oppose them.

It is unacceptable to Members on my side of the aisle to underfund our national defense while giving significant increases to the same social programs that received trillions of dollars over the last year. I hope we can find common ground as these bills move to the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for yielding.

First, I want to thank Chairman Bishop and Acting Ranking Member Harris for their work on this appropriations bill that funds the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies. I also want to acknowledge the committee staff for their efforts.

Thank you, Chair DeLauro. I want to thank you and Ranking Member Granger for your leadership in moving this process forward. I also appreciate the hard work of Chairman Bishop in crafting the fiscal year 2023 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that is before us today.