Political Quotes

“I thank Chairwoman Lowey for yielding. I rise in support of this funding package which includes Military Construction-Veterans Affairs funding, which I am privileged to chair, and seven other appropriations bills. This package increases funding for our national priorities and soundly rejects President Trump's unserious and immoral budget. This package increases funding and makes sure that our bicameral, bipartisan compromise that we reached on the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bill meets the needs of our servicemembers, supports our military families, and provides for our veterans. I want to underscore that the agreement does not provide any money for backfilling the funding that President Trump took--really, stole-- from our military projects after he declared a fake national emergency for the border wall, and it also denies advanced backfilling by the administration for their next attempt to steal more funding. There are zero dollars in the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs legislation for this wasteful border wall project. We secured a solid $1 billion in military construction, notably in family housing improvements, energy resiliency, and child development centers. Further, this agreement fully funds family housing construction at $1.3 billion and includes $140.8 million for costs associated with mold, lead-based paint, and vermin.…”