On the recordOctober 28, 2015
Mr. Ranking Member, let me thank you. And to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, let me thank you as well. This was a tough call. And I do want to thank the leadership, Speaker Boehner, and our leadership, Leader Pelosi, Whip Hoyer, and, of course, our ranking member of the Budget Committee, and the Ways and Means leadership as well. This is an important step forward because I can say to my constituents: We fixed some of your pain and your anguish. Madam Speaker, this bill quickly provides $80 billion, but I am so grateful that part of that deals with the plussing up of non-defense discretionary funding: child care, National Institutes of Health, and other very important issues. My seniors, I think it is very important to note that your Medicare premium part B will not go up in a 50 percent increase in 2016 and there will be less deep cuts in Social Security, more jobs being created, and as well we will have the opportunities, as I indicated, to increase NIH funding. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
