{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2022-12-23-pt1-PgE1354", "2022-12-23", 117, 2, null, null, "SUPPORTING FY23 OMNIBUS", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E1354", "E1354", null, null, "168 Cong. Rec. E1354", "Congressional Record, Volume 168 Issue 201 (Friday, December 23, 2022)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 201 (Friday, December 23, 2022)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E1354]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                        SUPPORTING FY23 OMNIBUS\n\n                                 ______\n\n                          HON. BETTY McCOLLUM\n\n                              of minnesota\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, December 23, 2022\n\n  Ms. McCollum. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the\nConsolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2023.\n  I want to thank Chair DeLauro for her tireless work to finish this\nlegislation--she deserves great credit.\n  As Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, I marked up the\nHouse Defense bill to President Biden's original request of $761.7\nbillion.\n  I felt his number was an appropriate level of funding for our\nnational security.\n  While I agree that we must make adjustments based on inflation and\nother global events, I am disappointed in the Senate's insistence on\nincreasing defense spending at the expense of domestic priorities.\n  We must realize that our national security is not defined by defense\ndollars alone--we damage our national security when we don't adequately\naddress the needs of the American people: in education, health care,\nand other critical investments here at home.\n  Turning to the Defense bill--for Fiscal Year 2023 we provide $797.7\nbillion, $69.3 billion above the 2022 enacted level.\n  We know that all Americans are struggling with higher prices--and\nthat includes our men and women in uniform--so we have prioritized\ninvesting in our most important national security asset, our service\nmembers and their families.\n  This Defense bill puts people first--by including:\n  A 4.6 percent pay raise for our service members;\n  And an increase of 11 percent to the Basic Allowance for Housing, and\nthe Basic Allowance for Subsistence--which will help offset the cost of\nrising rent and food prices.\n  I am very proud that this bill also invests in:\n  Confronting the climate crisis--with more than $2 billion in clean\nenergy programs and funding to add resilience to DoD installations from\nthe impacts of climate change.\n  Over $39 billion for Defense Health and medical research, including\nover $582 million for cancer research.\n  And $1.6 billion in Environmental Restoration programs, including\nover $250 million for PFOS remediation and disposal research.\n  This bill also continues our commitment to helping the Ukrainian\npeople defend their democracy against Russian aggression by providing\nrobust funding for the Ukraine Security Initiative and other NATO\nallies and partners in Europe.\n  The time has come for Congress to finish our work, pass this omnibus,\nand fund the entire federal government.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2022-12-23-pt1-PgE1354"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 22.148468997329473, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}