Defense
Chairman Ken Calvert
H-405 The Capitol
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Majority | Minority |
| Ken Calvert – Chair | Betty McCollum – Ranking Member |
| Hal Rogers | Marcy Kaptur |
| Steve Womack | Henry Cuellar |
| Robert Aderholt | Pete Aguilar |
| John Carter | Ed Case |
| Mario Diaz-Balart | Susie Lee |
| Dave Joyce | Joe Morelle |
| Jake Ellzey – Vice Chair | |
| Chuck Fleischmann | |
| David Valadao |
FY26 Member Day Hearing Instructions
Recent Activity
Madam Chair, thank you for yielding.
The revised spending allocations presented today contain only technical corrections to the initial allocations, which were adopted on a party-line vote two weeks ago.
Because there are no substantive changes from the initial allocations, I must once again oppose them.
They do not change the topline spending levels for any of the subcommittee bills – even though Members on my side of the aisle have consistently asked for bipartisan cooperation on funding levels.
WASHINGTON – Today, the full committee met to consider the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills for the subcommittees on Defense and Homeland Security. Committee Republicans were unable to support the bills due to the total spending level and controversial policy provisions that are in the bills.
Thank you, Madam Chair, for yielding.
First, I want to thank Chair McCollum and Ranking Member Calvert for their work on the fiscal year 2022 Defense appropriations bill.
As the former chair of this subcommittee, I know how much hard work goes into drafting this bill and how important it is.
I also want to acknowledge the efforts of the committee staff, specifically our minority clerk, Johnnie Kaberle, and the majority clerk, Chris Bigelow.
Madam Chair, thank you for yielding.
These spending allocations will increase discretionary spending by hundreds of billions of dollars to an all-time high of $1.5 trillion.
This nearly 9% increase above fiscal year 2021 comes at a time of record-high deficits and debt:
