Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
Today we welcome chad wulf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, thank you for being with us this morning. Mister secretary the fyi 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion, in neck discretionary funding. For the department of Homeland Security. While this is a cut of 750 million below the current year level, the budget also proposes transferring United States secret service to the treasury department. I want to be clear that absent any inactive law to affect such a transfer this subcommittee will continue to include funding, for the secret service and its bill when including funding for the secret service in the total the budget requests for fbi 21 is actually 1. 7 eight billion above the current year level there are some things the proposed budget which we will find strong bipartisan support, such as funding for the coast guard cutter there are also support support for proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those the expansion of detenti
Today we welcome chad wulf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, thank you for being with us this morning. Mister secretary the fyi 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion, in neck discretionary funding. For the department of Homeland Security. While this is a cut of 750 million below the current year level, the budget also proposes transferring United States secret service to the treasury department. I want to be clear that absent any inactive law to affect such a transfer this subcommittee will continue to include funding, for the secret service and its bill when including funding for the secret service in the total the budget requests for fbi 21 is actually 1. 7 eight billion above the current year level there are some things the proposed budget which we will find strong bipartisan support, such as funding for the coast guard cutter there are also support support for proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those the expansion of detenti
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