WASHINGTON, DC - Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX), of the House Armed Service Committee, made the following statement after the Senate passed Department of Defense appropriations for FY19 by a vote of 93-7. The Senate vote gives the House the opportunity to avoid a continuing resolution for the first time in nearly a decade and pass a full year’s funding for the military.
"Today an overwhelming bipartisan majority of Senators voted to give our men and women in uniform the resources they need to defend the country and to deliver those resources on time for the first time in a decade. Those nine years of partisan politics, stopgap spending measures, and kicking the can down the road, have eroded our strength and encouraged our enemies. Members of the House now have the opportunity — indeed the obligation — to support our troops by approving the same bill next week. We have no duty that is more important than keeping faith with our troops."