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Tuesday, September 30
Congressman
Lewis’s Floor Statement on Economic Stabilization Legislation
WASHINGTON
– Congressman Jerry Lewis presented the following statement during the
House of Representatives floor debate on the Economic Stabilization Act:
Mr.
Speaker, there is a sense of urgency in the Capitol. We all know that this
urgency is real: we have seen the largest U.S. bank failure in history,
the demise of century-old Wall Street firms, and a nearly total freeze of
our credit system.
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Tuesday, September 24 House
Disaster Relief Bill Fills Firefighting Funding Gap for
U.S.
Forest
Service
WASHINGTON
– The House of Representatives Wednesday approved $500 million in
emergency spending to cover unexpected U.S. Forest Service firefighting
costs and an additional $250 million in fuels management and fire
prevention funding as part of a stopgap spending bill for the upcoming
fiscal year, Congressman Jerry Lewis said. Read
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Tuesday, September 24 House
OKs Stopgap Spending Bill that Ends Offshore Oil Drilling Ban, Allows Oil
Shale Exploration WASHINGTON
– The House of Representatives voted Wednesday on a stopgap spending
bill that also ends the ban on offshore oil drilling and allows research
into oil shale development – two measures that have been championed by
Congressman Jerry Lewis for the past three months as part of the
congressional budget process.
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Tuesday, September 16 Lewis:
Democrat Smoke and Mirrors Energy Bill a Sham
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– In a move designed to skirt the issue of the nation’s energy crisis,
the House Democrat majority today will attempt to pass flawed energy
legislation that will do little to increase domestic energy production or
lower the price of gas. Rep. Jerry Lewis, Ranking Republican on the House
Appropriations Committee – which has been the vehicle for the annual
off-shore drilling moratorium – will oppose the Democrat plan.
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Wednesday, August 20 CONGRESSMAN LEWIS THANKS VOLUNTEERS FOR
HOME OWNERSHIP PRESERVATION EVENT
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Monday, August 11 Lewis
Welcomes Housing and Urban Development Secretary to
Redlands
Boys and Girls Club, Senior Housing SAN
BERNARDINO
– Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Steve Preston will join
Congressman Jerry Lewis Friday, August 15 for a visit to the Redlands Boys
and Girls Club and a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Vista del Sol
affordable senior housing project in
Redlands
, Lewis said Friday. Read More...
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Thursday, July 31 Lewis
Blasts Democrat “Do Nothing” Approach on Gas Price Crisis
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– Appropriations Ranking Republican Jerry Lewis today condemned the
Democrat majority’s vote to leave for August recess without taking any
substantive steps to help ease gas prices and lessen the nation’s
dependence on foreign oil.
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Thursday, July 31 Congressman Lewis calls on colleagues to support more bipartisan work on energy, appropriations “Mr.
Speaker, I want to congratulate both Chairman Edwards and Mr. Wamp for
producing a truly bipartisan fiscal year 2009 Military Construction-VA
Appropriations bill in the longstanding tradition of this committee.
Their work is a demonstration to the House that Democrats and Republicans
can work together to create legislation the majority of our Members can
support.
“As
we all know, the Appropriations Committee has steered off course this year
because of one single issue which is critical to the American public and
which has significant bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
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Thursday, June 26 Congressman
Lewis Praises Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Second Amendment WASHINGTON
– Congressman Jerry Lewis Thursday hailed the U.S. Supreme Court
decision striking down the restrictive
Washington
,
D.C.
gun ban and upholding an individual’s right to own a firearm under the
Second Amendment to the Constitution. Read
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Friday, June 20 Passage
of Intelligence Bill Will Help Prevent Another September 11, Lewis Says WASHINGTON
– Congressman Jerry Lewis strongly supported passage of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) renewal Friday, saying
America
desperately needs a fully-developed intelligence capability to prevent
future terrorist attacks. Read
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Friday, June 20
House Approves Funding to Support Troops,
Enhance GI Bill, Provide
Midwest
Flood Relief
WASHINGTON
– The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a supplemental
appropriations bill to fund the troops fighting the war on terror in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
, enhance veterans’ education benefits, and provide disaster relief to
the victims of devastating
Midwest
flooding, Congressman Jerry Lewis said.
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Thursday, June 19 Agriculture
Appropriations Subcommittee approves FY 2009 funding legislation with big
spending increases, more government interference WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture today approved
its annual funding legislation for fiscal year 2009. The bill
contains a total of $20.6 billion in funding the Agriculture Department
and related agencies, which is $1.96 billion over last year’s level and
$922 million over the President’s amended request. Read
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Thursday, June 19 Reckless
spending fills Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services (LHHS) today approved its Fiscal Year 2009 spending legislation.
The bill contains a total of more than $153 billion in discretionary
funding, which is nearly $7.8 billion over the President’s request and
more than $8.2 billion more than last year.
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Tuesday, June 17 Lewis:
Financial Services Appropriations bill needs “more frugality, less
spending”
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services today
approved the Fiscal Year 2009 funding bill for the Department of Treasury,
the Judiciary, the Executive Office of the President, and other
independent federal agencies. Read More...
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Tuesday, June 17 Lewis:
Energy and Water Appropriations bill does little to address rising gas
prices
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif), Ranking Republican on the House
Appropriations committee, commented today on the subcommittee approval of
the Energy and Water appropriations legislation. The Energy and Water
appropriations bill includes a total of $33.26 billion, which is $2.37
billion over last year’s funding level and $1.9 billion above the
President’s request.
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Thursday, June 12 Record-breaking,
Robust Veterans and Military Construction funding bill passes
Appropriations Subcommittee
WASHIGNTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and
Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA) today approved its funding legislation for
fiscal year 2009. The bill contains a record level of funding for programs
for
America
’s veterans and military construction projects. Read
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Thursday, June 12 Lewis:
CJS bill “does nothing to rein in spending or address the nation’s
energy crisis”
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and
Justice today approved its annual funding bill for Fiscal Year 2009. The
legislation includes a total of $56.85 billion in spending, which is an
increase of $5 billion over FY 2008 and $3.17 over the President’s
request. Read More...
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Thursday, June 12 Lewis
Again Calls on Democrats to Take Up Clean
War
Funding Supplemental
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Republican Jerry Lewis
(R-Calif) called on the Democratic leadership of the House to immediately
pass a clean war supplemental spending bill free of extraneous spending
and policy riders. Read More...
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Wednesday, June 11 Interior
Appropriations Subcommittee approves funding bill minus critical domestic
energy production amendment
WASHINGTON
,
D.C.
– The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior today marked up and
approved the Fiscal Year 2009 funding bill for the Department of the
Interior. However, a critical amendment which would provide some relief
from the nation’s exploding oil prices failed to garner enough
Democratic support to be included in the passed bill.
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Wednesday, June 11
HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
BILL TAKES ON STEP FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Today, in the first Appropriations committee mark-up meeting of
the year, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security considered
the Fiscal Year 2009 funding legislation for the Department of Homeland
Security. Read More...
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Friday, May 23 HOUSE
APPROVES VETERANS PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY LEWIS
WASHINGTON
– In the continuing
effort to provide full support to the nation’s veterans, the House of
Representatives has passed a number of important measures that will ease
mortgage loan restrictions for veterans, increase compensation for those
with service-related disabilities, and provide reimbursement for emergency
medical care, Congressman Jerry Lewis said Friday.
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