Letter to Thad Cochran, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Patrick Leahy, Vice Chairman - Call for Spending Bills of Dangerous Environmental Riders
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By:
Sheldon Whitehouse,
Kamala Harris,
Tom Carper,
Mazie Hirono,
Ed Markey,
Gary Peters,
Bob Menendez,
Kirsten Gillibrand,
Bob Casey, Jr.,
Patty Murray,
Dianne Feinstein,
Chris Murphy,
Brian Schatz,
Elizabeth Warren,
Debbie Stabenow,
Maggie Hassan,
Catherine Cortez Masto,
Jeff Merkley,
Bernie Sanders,
Michael Bennet,
Chris Coons,
Dick Durbin,
Ben Cardin,
Al Franken,
Cory Booker,
Sherrod Brown,
Mark Warner,
Maria Cantwell,
Tom Reed II,
Richard Blumenthal,
Bill Nelson, Sr.,
Tammy Duckworth,
Chris Van Hollen, Jr.,
Jeanne Shaheen,
Martin Heinrich,
Ron Wyden,
Tim Kaine,
Tammy Baldwin
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Date: June 26, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
June 26, 2017
Dear Chairman Cochran and Vice Chairman Leahy,
Thank you for your work to complete the FY 2018 appropriations bills. We are grateful that the FY 2017 omnibus spending bill was largely free of unrelated policy riders that would have compromised public health and the environment. As you know, the inclusion of such riders has undermined the Senate's ability to pass appropriations bills in the past. To help maintain regular order and to ensure bipartisan support, we urge you to keep the FY 2018 bills free of controversial environmental policy riders.
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