Sen. James Lankford
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today offered an Appropriations amendment to eliminate a commonly-used budget gimmick with the Crime Victims Fund (CVF). Specifically, the amendment was offered during today’s Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science markup hearing to change the way that the Congressional Budget Office scores the CVF obligation limitations in future years, which would prevent a gimmick that allows for the same resources to be used as ‘new’ offsets for other programs year after year. This proposal was also included in Lankford’s government waste report released in November 2015 entitled, “Federal Fumbles: 100 ways the government dropped the ball” (page 76).
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the vote on Sen. John Hoeven’s (R-N.D.) amendment (#3811) to the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that would block the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule which expands federal regulatory power over private land under the Clean Water Act.
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