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The House today voted on the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which provides $1.013 trillion in funding for 11 of 12 full Appropriations bills for fiscal year 2015 and a continuing resolution (CR) that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through February 27, 2015.  Notably, H.R. 83 abides by all terms set in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (“Ryan-Murray Agreement”), provides no new funding for Obamacare, protects life by maintaining a ban on the use of federal funds for abortion, provides for the nation’s security, protects jobs and reins in regulatory overreach, slashes funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), advances our energy priorities, upholds First Amendment rights by prohibiting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target groups based on ideology, and increases oversight to ensure the responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

After passage, Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the following statement:

“The passage of H.R. 83 shows the American people that we take seriously the responsibility of governing – the responsibility just given to House and Senate Republicans in November.  But its passage goes beyond simply fulfilling our Constitutional duty to fund the federal government because it does so at the lowest spending level in nearly a decade while strongly reflecting our conservative values, slashing funding for the EPA and the IRS, and reining in regulatory overreach.  Is it perfect?  No.  But it does eliminate the threat of a government shutdown and sets us up to directly challenge the President’s unilateral actions on immigration before they go into effect, when we have new majorities in both chambers of Congress and the ability to fight smarter.”

The full text of the bill and accompanying report can be found here.

Congressman Steve Womack represents Arkansas’s Third Congressional District and serves on the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense, Financial Services and General Government, and Labor-Health and Human Services subcommittees.

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