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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.
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*.
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:
Democrat proposals to require 100 percent screening of air and seaborne cargo will cost tens of billions of dollars in the coming years, and the only way to pay for it will be to dramatically raise fees and taxes, Congressman Jerry Lewis said Tuesday.
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.
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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:
Mr. Chairman and colleagues, I rise this morning to express my opposition to this Emergency Supplemental as it is presently written.
