Politico: Dems’ Labor HHS Amendments Fail

Politico - Brian Mahoney

An appropriations subcommittee shot down a bid by Rep. Rosa DeLauro to increase funding for programs in the Labor HHS bill to the levels requested by President Barack Obama in his 2016 budget.

The amendment would have funded by nearly $11 billion child care programs, Pell grants, job training and other defunded programs, DeLauro said. “And yet even with those increases, we are only halfway back to restoring the Labor HHS bill to its fiscal year 2010 funding level,” DeLauro said.

Another amendment offered by Rep. Barbara Lee offered to increase funding for job training programs and restore diminished funding for the NLRB.

That amendment would have also restored the Labor Department's implementation of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order and the Labor Department's fiduciary rule.

Labor HHS Subcommittee Chair Tom Cole said he opposed the amendments because the increases called for were not offset as required. They were voted down by a show of hands.

Online: Politico