Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the FY2015 Homeland Security Appropriations Act and immigration-related policy riders:
"The House majority leadership should have included a clean Homeland Security funding bill in last year's 'CROmnibus,' but chose instead to play partisan games, delaying funding needed by DHS border and aviation security agencies, the Secret Service, Coast Guard and many more. Now the farce continues with poison pill amendments related to the President's executive actions on immigration, which will clearly prevent enactment of the underlying bill. This political game has a real and negative effect on critical agencies working to prevent and respond to emergencies and terrorist attacks like those in France last week. I urge Republican leaders bring a clean Appropriations bill to the floor, without poison pill amendments, that invests appropriately in our homeland security."
Source: U.S. Department of HCA
