House Passes Government Funding Bill

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Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today voted for and the House passed H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, 219 to 206. The bill would fully fund 11 of 12 regular appropriations bills through September 30, 2015 and would fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under a Continuing Resolution (CR) until February 27, 2015.

The move to place DHS under a CR until March would prevent a government shutdown and enable new Republican majorities in the House and the Senate to take up policy solutions to end the President's executive order on immigration. The CR would also prevent the Administration from enacting new policies within DHS during that time.

"As always, federal spending is a series of value judgments. Given the composition of this Congress, which is coming to a close, I think Nevadans can claim a number of victories in terms of the funding priorities, spending reductions and reforms contained in this bill," said Amodei. "We did our jobs and now we can move ahead to the next Congress with a new Republican Majority in the Senate where frankly we will be in a much better position to continue to reduce spending and to check the overreach of the executive branch."

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