Washington, D.C. – House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis issued the following statement regarding the 302b sub-allocations which he circulated to each Member of the Full Appropriations Committee today. 

 

“These allocations represent my best effort to fairly distribute the limited resources available.  They ensure that Congress will adequately fund our priorities while sparing no area of the federal budget from scrutiny including member project funding.  They will require some difficult choices and tough votes but I am confident we can repeat the budget success of last year.  It is my intention to pass all of our bills through the House before the July 4^th break and once again avoid a massive omnibus budget package.  That type of legislating breeds fiscal mischief and should be avoided at all costs.”