Nita Lowey

Using OCO for base funds detracts from the true purpose of OCO, which is to fund wartime efforts. This prevents our Armed Forces from using these funds to counter ISIL and other threats. A great deal of good elsewhere in the bill is…

With only the fourth appropriations bill of the year on the floor, we should not be patting ourselves on the back. Today's bill blows up last year's budget agreement through a gimmick that needlessly creates a funding cliff next spring. It…

I thank Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz. And I thank Chairman Graves and Chairman Rogers. It is a pleasure for me to work here with all of them. However, in the fiscal year 2017 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, the House majority…

As my colleague knows, I have great respect for the distinguished chairman of the Labor-HHS Subcommittee, for which we don't even have a number right now, so we don't know how much we have to spend. But I also would like to respond to your…

Before I make my statement, I just want to respond to our distinguished chair of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Has the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations introduced…

The bill requires TSA to follow the same workplace rules as the majority of agencies in the Federal Government.

Before I begin, I would like to thank Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Kaptur, and Chairman Rogers for their work on the bill. The energy and water bill is the second bill we will consider on the floor this year. Over and over again, the…

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), a distinguished member of the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Ruiz).

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the articulate gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, who has been very clear on the…

As summer approaches, the CDC confirmed 1,204 cases, including more than 100 pregnant women in the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. territories as of May 11. So far all of the continental U.S. cases are associated…

In February, the World Health Organization declared Zika a public health emergency of international concern, and the President called for $1.9 billion to respond to the impending crisis to prevent the spread in our very own communities…

The Republican Zika bill provides $622 million, about one-third of the $1.9 billion requested. The bill also steals more Ebola funding as an offset instead of replenishing what was already redirected to Zika. We don't offset spending to…

May I ask how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from New York has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Kentucky has 4 minutes remaining.

I appreciate the chairman's eloquent remarks. However, I want to emphasize again that this is an emergency. People are severely, severely, being impacted because of the Zika virus. This is an emergency. We should be doing it immediately. I…

With great respect for our distinguished chair with whom we work very collegiately, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question in order to provide the funding needed to mount a robust response to a pressing public health…

Dire needs across this great Nation demand Congress' attention: Zika virus, the crisis in Flint, the opioid epidemic, not to mention the ongoing needs for education, infrastructure, jobs, and security. Yet, Republicans will miss tomorrow's…

This is one of the most exciting hearings I attend every, every appropriations session.

I am baffled, frankly, that Congress cannot come together and find a bipartisan path forward on gun violence research.

Because this student loan debt, which has reached $1.2 trillion nationwide for 40 million borrowers, making the average student loan burden $29,000 upon graduation, is a major challenge for all of us.

I am thrilled that we are focusing on this issue.

This is not about confiscating firearms or restricting the sale of weapons. This is pure and simple about looking to public health experts for research on how to make our communities safe.

This is a huge task, and much of South America and the Caribbean, including American citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are looking to Congress for leadership to tackle this public health emergency.

I appreciate your leadership and our Ranking Member and the whole Committee in getting the extra $2,000,000,000.

I called on this committee to once again commit to doubling funding for the NIH.