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Pingree Votes for Budget Funding Bill to Avoid Shutdown, Fund Key Programs

Statement

Date: Jan. 15, 2014
Issues: Entitlements and the Safety Net Government Budget and Spending

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, voted today for a bipartisan bill that will keep the government operating through the rest of the current fiscal year.

"This wasn't a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination, but it did replace some of the sequester and allowed for a better level of support for programs like Head Start and LIHEAP and included critical funding to bring more work to BIW," Pingree said. "It was a product of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate and it took Democrats and Republicans to pass it today."


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