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State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

1036 Longworth House Office Building
(202) 225-3481
Ranking Member: Rep. Hal Rogers, Kentucky

Enacted Full-Year Legislation

H.R. 2617 - Omnibus

Bill Text

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration

Defense

Commerce, Justice, and Science

Energy and Water Development

Financial Services and General Government

Homeland Security

Interior and Environment

Labor, Health and Human Services and Education

Legislative Branch


September 30, 2022
Remarks

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.

In fact, this bill actually bails out the Biden Administration for their failures and provides additional appropriations to put a band-aid on some of these problems for a few more months.


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July 1, 2022
The Appropriations Committee wrapped up full committee markups for the fiscal year 2023 this week. Democrats supported a number of common-sense Republican amendments. Here are a few of the accepted changes to the bills that passed by voice votes:

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June 30, 2022
Remarks

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.

We will need to restore important language from prior bills, agree to remove controversial policy riders, and set responsible funding levels so that bills can get to the president's desk and be signed into law. I urge a no vote and yield back my time.


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1100 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515

June 29, 2022
Remarks

Madam Chair, thank you for yielding.

First, I want to thank Chairwoman Lee and Ranking Member Rogers for their work on the fiscal year 2023 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.

I also want to thank the committee staff. All of them understand the importance of these issues for our country and the entire world.

I previously served as chair of this subcommittee and know this bill funds many programs that have bipartisan support – the most important being the funding for Israel. I am pleased to see that Chairwoman Lee has included 3.3 billion dollars for Israel's security.


June 29, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, the full committee met to consider the fiscal year 2023 bills for the subcommittees on State and Foreign Operations and Interior and Environment.


June 29, 2022
Remarks

Thank you, Madam Chair for the time.

The chairman's mark before us provides $64.58 billion for the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, that is a 15 percent increase over the fiscal year 2022. I have serious concerns about this funding level and how the resources were allocated in the bill.

As I told the administration witnesses that came before this subcommittee seeking billions more in spending this year, increases of this magnitude are not realistic and create expectations that cannot be met.


Meeting Status:
Scheduled
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Location:
2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515