House Appropriations Committee, 115th Congress (2017–2018): Members & Record

Members, 115th Congress 53

Everyone who held a seat in the 115th Congress, leaders first, with the day they joined or left when it was not with the rest.

Seat	Member	Role
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen	Chair
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Ranking Member
R-MD	Andy Harris
D-CA	Barbara Lee
D-MN	Betty McCollum
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann
R-PA	Charles W. DentLeft May 10, 2018
D-ME	Chellie Pingree
R-UT	Chris Stewart
R-WA	Dan Newhouse
D-NC	David E. Price
R-CA	David G. Valadao
R-OH	David P. Joyce
R-IA	David Young
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-WA	Derek Kilmer
R-WV	Evan H. JenkinsLeft Sep 28, 2018
D-NY	Grace Meng
R-KY	Harold Rogers
D-TX	Henry Cuellar
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry
R-TX	John Abney Culberson
R-FL	John H. RutherfordJoined May 16, 2018
R-TX	John R. Carter
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark
R-TX	Kay Granger
R-CA	Ken Calvert
R-KS	Kevin Yoder
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei
D-WI	Mark Pocan
R-AL	Martha Roby
D-PA	Matt Cartwright
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson
D-IL	Mike Quigley
D-CA	Pete Aguilar
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
R-VA	Scott Taylor
R-AR	Steve Womack
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney
D-OH	Tim Ryan
R-OK	Tom Cole
R-GA	Tom Graves

Subcommittees, 115th Congress 12

Under the names they had then. Each has its own record.

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 115th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 115th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HR 7400	Making continuing appropriations for the Coast Guard.	Referred To	Jan 2, 2019
HR 4243	To establish a commission for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the modernization or realignment of facilities of the Veterans Health Administration, to improve construction and management leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to amend and appropriate funds for the Veterans Choice Program, and for other purposes.	Discharged From	Dec 28, 2018
HR 7397	To provide further additional continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.	Referred To	Dec 22, 2018
HR 7362	Pay our Doctors Act of 2018	Referred To	Dec 20, 2018
HR 7264	Making further additional continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.	Referred To	Dec 12, 2018
HJRES 143	Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.	Discharged From	Dec 6, 2018
HR 7047	Child Trafficking Victims Protection and Welfare Act	Referred To	Oct 5, 2018
HR 6776	Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2019	Reported Original Measure	Sep 12, 2018

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 115th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Markup	FY2018 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill and FY2018 Interior Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 2359	Rescheduled	Jul 18, 2017
Markup	FY2018 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 235921 documents	Scheduled	Jul 17, 2017

Markup	FY2018 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill & FY 2018 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 2359	Scheduled	Jul 13, 2017
Markup	FY2018 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, and FY2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 2359	Scheduled	Jul 12, 2017
Markup	FY2018 Defense Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 2359	Canceled	Jun 30, 2017
Markup	Committee Markup: FY2018 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill and FY2018 Defense Appropriations BillRayburn House Office Building 2359	Scheduled	Jun 29, 2017
Markup	FY 2018 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill	Scheduled	Jun 15, 2017
Meeting	Organizational Meeting for the 115th CongressRayburn House Office Building 23595 documents	Scheduled	Jan 24, 2017

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. In the 115th Congress.

Hearing	Title	Held
—	Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 19, 2018 to May 10, 2018 · 555 pages	Apr 19, 2018
—	Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 201948 pages	Apr 18, 2018
—	Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 12, 2018 to Apr 26, 2018 · 451 pagesOn H.R. 38, H.R. 3397 5 witnesses Lightfoot, Robert M., Acting Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hill, Hon. J. French, a Representative in Congress from the State of Arkansas Moore, Hon. Gwen S., a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin Watson Coleman, Hon. Bonnie, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey Sessions, Hon. Jeff, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice	Apr 12, 2018
—	State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 11, 2018 to Apr 26, 2018 · 401 pages	Apr 11, 2018
—	Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 11, 2018 to Apr 26, 2018 · 381 pages	Apr 11, 2018
—	Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 11, 2018 to Apr 25, 2018 · 463 pagesOn H.R. 4631, H.R. 5305, H.Res. 77, H.Res. 630, H.Res. 724 and 1 more 11 witnesses HON. RANDY HULTGREN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Mr. Yoder. Gentlemen, welcome back to the committee. I note that you were some of our witnesses last year when we had our first open hearing and had a number of topics that we worked on based on those hearings. One of them was your support and advocacy for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. I think we were able to make some progres KEL McCLANAHAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSELORS MANDY SMITHBERGER, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION SAMANTHA FEINSTEIN, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT Mr. Yoder. Okay. As part of our open hearing effort this morning, we are going to take testimony from a number of members of the public who have issues they would like to bring before Congress and they would like to have this committee consider. We have broken those witnesses down in four different panels, and we years ago, 199 GAO staffers had top secret clearances. Ninety- six had sensitive compartmented information clearances. In 2018, when I checked yesterday, there were a total of 35 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staffers and a total of JOHN PARE, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND GREG LAMBERT, PRESIDENT, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES KEVIN KOSAR, VICE PRESIDENT OF POLICY, R STREET INSTITUTE Mr. Yoder. We will call forward the second panel, which will be dealing with topics on the Library of Congress. I call forward John Pare, Greg Lambert, and Kevin Kosar. Gentlemen, welcome to the committee. Thank you for taking the time to testify today. I will note that your testimony will be placed in the record. So, to the exte request includes $1.8 million to strengthen the capacity of the Law Library of Congress. The Law Library is the world leader in providing access to reliable legal materials in print and electronic formats, and it must have adequate funding to meet the needs of Congress, the Supreme Court, and other court judges, attorneys, and the public. The Law Librarian must also be able to function with some autonomy within the Library of Congress, as she is the leader of the de facto National Law Library. I analysts, after about 4, 5 years left; head of the Human Resources Unit left; so have various analysts and attorneys. And these are not folks who are just kind of happily going off into retirement to go fishing. No, these are people often mid-career, even earlier in their career, who have just kind of had enough and left. The turnover at CRS and the loss of good employees is bad for the agency. It is bad for Congress, and it is expensive. It costs a lot to on-board and train a new employee. That DANIEL SCHUMAN, DEMAND PROGRESS JOSH TAUBERER, CIVIC IMPULSE LLC SHEILA KRUMHOLZ, CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS Mr. Yoder. We are now going to move on to our third panel this morning, and I will call before the committee Daniel Schuman, Josh Tauberer, and Sheila Krumholz, who will all be testifying related to operations of the House of Representatives. Welcome to the committee. Welcome back to the committee for some. Appreciate your interest in testifying today and look forward to hearing your ZACH GRAVES, DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY POLICY, R STREET INSTITUTE TIM LORDAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNET EDUCATION FOUNDATION Mr. Yoder. Okay. Committee, we have our fourth and final panel, and I will now call to the table Mr. Zach Graves and Mr. Tim Lordan. Welcome to the committee, gentlemen. I would like to go ahead and start with Mr. Graves, Director of Technology Policy at the R Street Institute. Mr. Graves. Chairman Yoder, Ranking Member Ryan, and members of the committee, thank you for con challenges in each district in--each congressional district all across America. Some urban districts, but also many rural districts, like Congressman Ryan's district, Chairman Greg Harper from the Committee on House Administration's district in Mississippi, all over the place. So they are not like urban centers. They are reaching into--using the strength of the Member office, they are reaching into the districts in America to inspire students. And, frankly, as we saw last week at House of Code, were Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen and Congressman Ryan. He was the chair. So, in a way, I am here because he was so successful at doubling participation. This project is kind of hard to administer. To have--about 5,000 students participated last year, about 1,250 apps were created by students, and it has just been incredibly difficult to manage that entire process. The art competition is relatively simple. If we had the art competition--we could do an art competition right now and five students wo SUSAN TSUI GRUNDMANN Mr. Yoder. The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you everybody for attending this hearing on the Office of Compliance. This is our fifth hearing, hearing in the last week or so as we work on our fiscal year 2019 appropriations legislation. And so we appreciate Ms. Grundmann coming to attend the hearing today. I don't believe we had a hearing with you last year. It is my first year chairing the committee so we are thankful that you are here this year. I know from time to	Apr 11, 2018
—	Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2019Held Apr 11, 2018 to Apr 26, 2018 · 236 pages	Apr 11, 2018
—	Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2019Held Mar 20, 2018 to Apr 18, 2018 · 320 pages	Mar 20, 2018

The committee's written reports, most on a bill it sent to the floor. In the 115th Congress.

Report	Title	Issued
H. Rept. 115-1121	Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives a N N U a L	Jan 2, 2019
H. Rept. 115-948	Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, 2019On H.R. 6776	Sep 12, 2018
H. Rept. 115-897	REPORT on the REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 SUBMITTED BY MR. FRELINGHUYSEN, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS	Aug 10, 2018
H. Rept. 115-862	Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2019On H.R. 6470	Jul 23, 2018
H. Rept. 115-829	State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, 2019On H.R. 6385	Jul 16, 2018
H. Rept. 115-792	Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2019On H.R. 6258	Jun 28, 2018
H. Rept. 115-779	REPORT on the REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 SUBMITTED BY MR. FRELINGHUYSEN, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS together with MINORITY VIEWS	Jun 22, 2018
H. Rept. 115-769	Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2019On H.R. 6157	Jun 20, 2018

Reports, rules and messages sent to Congress by agencies and the President, and petitions and memorials, referred to this committee. Newest first. In the 115th Congress.

Number	Communication	Referred
EC-7084	A letter from the Under Secretary, Comptroller, Department of Defense, transmitting a report of violations of the Antideficiency Act, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1351; Public Law 97–258; (96 Stat. 926); to the Committee on Appropriations.Executive communication · Department of Defense	Dec 6, 2018
EC-7063	A letter from the General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of The President, transmitting a letter reporting violations of the Antideficiency Act by the now-closed Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects (Federal Coordinator), pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1517(b); Public Law 110–161, section 1517(b); (121 Stat. 2285); to the Committee on Appropriations.Executive communication · Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of The President	Dec 3, 2018
EC-6707	A letter from the Secretary, Department of the Treasury, transmitting a report of two violations of the Antideficiency Act, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1351; Public Law 97–258; (96 Stat. 926); to the Committee on Appropriations.Executive communication · Department of the Treasury	Nov 6, 2018
EC-6706	A letter from the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, Department of Transportation, transmitting an alleged violation of the Antideficiency Act, pursuant to section 145.8 of the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-11 (2018); to the Committee on Appropriations.Executive communication · Department of Transportation	Nov 6, 2018
EC-6565	A letter from the Under Secretary, Comptroller, Department of Defense, transmitting a report of a violation of the Antideficiency Act, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1351; Public Law 97–258; (96 Stat. 926); to the Committee on Appropriations.Executive communication · Department of Defense	Oct 19, 2018
EC-6467	A message from the President of the United States, transmitting designation of funding as an emergency requirement, pursuant to Public Law 115–254, div I; (H. Doc. No. 115–160); to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.Executive communication · the President of the United States	Oct 9, 2018
EC-6393	A message from the President of the United States, transmitting designation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism all funding so designated by the Congress, pursuant to Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019, div A, section 9023; (H. Doc. No. 115–158); to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.Executive communication · the President of the United States	Sep 28, 2018
EC-6392	A message from the President of the United States, transmitting designation of funding as an emergency requirement, pursuant to Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019, div. C, section 113(b); (H. Doc. No. 115–159); to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.Executive communication · the President of the United States	Sep 28, 2018

Reference documents the committee published: studies, compilations of law, rules. In the 115th Congress.

Print	Title	Text
115th	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018	PDF · Text
115th	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018	PDF · Text
115th	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017	PDF · Text

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Reports	Meetings	Printed hearings	Communications	Prints
119th2025–2026, sitting	64	155	24	6	24	21	27	21	0
118th2023–2024	62	143	22	9	23	15	34	35	3
117th2021–2022	61	101	24	8	29	15	40	39	7
116th2019–2020	53	151	24	13	31	21	41	68	3
115th2017–2018	53	107	24	6	28	24	43	71	3
114th2015–2016	54	100	24	6	28	14	62	59	2
113th2013–2014	57	186	21	13	28	13	63	—	0
112th2011–2012	50	122	20	9	29	0	81	—	0
111th2009–2010	61	90	16	18	22	—	82	—	2
110th2007–2008	68	51	18	9	26	—	40	—	2
109th2005–2006	67	49	24	23	32	—	3	—	0
108th2003–2004	65	79	28	28	34	—	37	—	0
107th2001–2002	65	61	26	31	40	—	142	—	0

Membership changes 3

Who joined, left or changed role after the committee was first filled in the 115th Congress, newest first, each with the official record.

Date	Member	Change	Record
Sep 28, 2018	Evan H. Jenkins R-WV	Left Congress	Last recorded vote
May 16, 2018	John H. Rutherford R-FL	Joined	H.Res. 897
May 10, 2018	Charles W. Dent R-PA	Left Congress	Last recorded vote

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