Nita Lowey: “If sequester continues into fiscal year 2016 and beyond, will we be able to meet the National Defense Strategy?”

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).

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

I am delighted to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the chair of the Committee on Financial Services.

We cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.