Rep. Veasey’s Statement on the 2015 Omnibus Spending Bill

Washington, D.C. —Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, released the following statement in response to the House Republican's inability to pass the FY 2015 omnibus spending package:

"Today after several hours of delay, it is clear that the Republican led House of Representatives has not been able to garner the necessary votes to pass the fiscal year 2015 Omnibus Continuing Resolution Appropriations package that has come to be called ‘Cromnibus.'

This $1.014 trillion spending package represents a failure of House leadership to work towards genuinely bipartisan legislation that will keep our government running. The 1,600 page Cromnibus bill contains very important programs that I strongly support but I would urge House leadership to bring a bipartisan bill to the floor that does not slash the retirement accounts of millions of Americans or short change the Department of Homeland Security by dramatically shortening their funding time period. This is vital to our national security and will affect the implementation of the President's executive order for our country's immigrant community.

Democrats have shown that we will work in a bipartisan manner but the Republican conference is in such disarray that they cannot gather the votes to pass the bill within their own caucus."