Nita Lowey: “we hope you can shed light today on what appears to be perpetual stonewalling by HUD and Secretary Carson”

I urge this Subcommittee to continue its longstanding support for critical people-to-people and peacebuilding programming.

MEPPA offers the one thing that has always stood between proven civil society initiatives and widespread change: the promise of sufficient peacebuilding resources.

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the dynamic, hardworking, and committed chair of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 214, nays 207, not voting 10, as…