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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose)

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee passed H.R. 7273, the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026, during a full committee markup. This important legislation, led by Chairman Brian Babin and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren, strengthens America’s leadership in space by providing clear direction for NASA and supporting critical programs and initiatives that will keep our nation at the forefront of exploration and discovery well into the future.

“Today the Science Committee recommitted NASA to fulfill its multiple missions in exploration, earth and space science, aeronautics, innovation, education, and inspiration,” said Ranking Member Lofgren. “Much like the space enterprise itself, through collaboration, hard work, and a good measure of patience on both sides, we have once again, achieved good legislative results. Our nation’s investment in civil space has, and will continue to contribute significantly to innovation and economic prosperity here on earth.”

“Today’s passage of the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 out of Committee marks a major step toward securing America’s leadership in space for generations to come,” Chairman Brian Babin said. “This bipartisan bill—a top priority of mine and one that is especially close to my heart—strengthens our human exploration efforts, supports a growing commercial space economy, and invests in the technologies that will carry us from the Moon to Mars. I’m hopeful the full House will act quickly so we can send this legislation to the Senate and ultimately to the President’s desk. The next great chapter of American exploration is within reach, and this bill helps ensure we lead the way.”

Highlights of H.R. 7273:

• Strengthens human exploration by supporting Artemis missions and continued development of the Space Launch System and Orion to return astronauts to the Moon and prepare for missions to Mars.
• Grows the commercial space economy by enabling NASA’s transition to commercial low-Earth orbit platforms that support American industry and innovation.
• Invests in breakthrough space and aeronautics technologies, including advanced propulsion, deep-space communications, hypersonics, and next-generation flight systems.
• Supports a balanced science and workforce portfolio by advancing discovery missions and expanding education programs that prepare the next generation of explorers.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (25th District of FLORIDA)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The FY26 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs appropriations bill – led by NSRP Subcommittee Chairman Mario Díaz-Balart – has been signed into law by President Trump – advancing an America First, peace through strength agenda while eliminating $9.3 billion in wasteful spending. The legislation refocuses U.S. foreign policy resources on core national security priorities, including deterrence, countering narcotics and human trafficking, confronting the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party, and combating terrorism. An outside and international perspective from political commentator and Caribbean-focused analyst Ravi Balgobin Maharaj examines how this approach will reshape U.S. power and leadership in the Western Hemisphere.

With the latest round of FY26 full-year funding enacted – covering defense; transportation and housing; labor, health, and education; financial services; and national security and the Department of State – we are reminded that national strength is built bill-by-bill, choice-by-choice. The full FY26 slate reinforces that clear strategy: restoring deterrence, sharpening U.S. leadership, supporting our communities, and demanding accountability for taxpayer dollars.

Read on for insight into how implementing full-year appropriations turns priorities into durable policy and results.

Austerity With a Point

How a Republican appropriations bill reorients U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere

By Ravi Balgobin Maharaj

“The strangest thing about modern Washington is not how much it spends, but how rarely anyone can explain why. So when the House passed a Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations package that actually cuts spending and tells you what it’s for, it felt less like routine governance and more like a clerical error.

“That is the context for the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs bill shepherded through the House by Representative Mario Díaz-Balart of Florida. Folded into a broader appropriations minibus, the legislation delivers a 16 percent reduction from last year’s spending levels, nearly $9.3 billion trimmed away, the deepest cut of any appropriations bill this cycle. In a Congress addicted to symbolic fights and deficit amnesia, that alone is notable.

“What makes the bill more than an exercise in budgetary self-control is the worldview embedded in those cuts. Díaz-Balart has long argued that American foreign policy should be disciplined, unapologetic, and hemispherically literate. This bill reflects that instinct. It pares back programs that have multiplied without much evidence of success, while protecting funding for allies and strategic priorities that still define American power, including Israel, Taiwan, and the Indo-Pacific.

“For the Caribbean and Latin America, regions often treated by Washington as either sentimental causes or afterthoughts, the legislation lands with particular force. It sharply restricts assistance to authoritarian regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua while expanding democracy, religious freedom, and broadcasting programs aimed directly at their populations. It also takes direct aim at the trafficking of Cuban medical personnel, a practice that Democratic administrations have been reluctant to confront too directly, preferring the language of engagement over the discomfort of enforcement.

“Here the contrast with recent Democratic foreign policy is hard to miss. Under Democratic leadership, foreign assistance has increasingly doubled as a grab bag of domestic cultural priorities, climate mandates, diversity initiatives, and gender programs layered onto embassies and aid accounts with little regard for local conditions or strategic coherence. The result has been neither moral leadership nor geopolitical leverage, but a swollen bureaucracy that confuses activity with impact.

“Díaz-Balart’s bill strips much of that away. It refocuses the State Department on basic functions like diplomacy, security, and consular services. It creates an America First Opportunity Fund to give the Secretary of State flexibility to act quickly when genuine strategic openings emerge, rather than waiting for the paperwork to clear while rivals move faster. It also insists on oversight, transparency, and measurable outcomes, concepts that have lately fallen out of fashion in foreign aid circles.

“The bill’s posture toward China is likely to resonate across the Caribbean basin, where Beijing has expanded its influence through loans, infrastructure projects, and quiet leverage over small economies. By requiring U.S. opposition to multilateral development bank lending to China and blocking the use of American-backed funds to service Chinese debt, the legislation sends a clearer signal than Democrats have been comfortable sending. For countries weighing Washington’s lectures against Beijing’s checkbook, clarity counts.

“On Israel, the bill is unequivocal, fully funding security assistance, prohibiting support for UNRWA, and reinforcing long-standing restrictions designed to keep U.S. funds out of the hands of terrorist groups. This firmness will irritate progressive Democrats who have grown increasingly uneasy with America’s closest Middle Eastern ally. In much of Latin America and the Caribbean, where security cooperation is not an abstraction, that unease is far less widespread.

“Critics will argue that deep cuts risk diminishing American influence. But influence diluted by incoherence is not influence at all. The past several years of Democratic stewardship produced record spending, softer language toward adversaries, and no visible improvement in regional stability. Haiti remains in crisis. Venezuela remains broken. Cuba remains authoritarian. Spending more did not fix any of it.”

“Díaz-Balart’s bill does not promise miracles. It promises something rarer, like restraint paired with intent. For a hemisphere accustomed to mixed signals from Washington, that may be the most meaningful change of all.”

NSRP Subcommittee Chairman Díaz-Balart has been duly focused on strengthening economic opportunity and accountability and reinforcing America’s security and leadership at home and abroad. Through his leadership, he delivered a bill that replaces the weakness of prior administrations by restoring President Trump’s deterrence and strength posture. To protect the safety, freedom, and prosperity of the American people, the measure shows that focused strategy – not endless spending – is what delivers results.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II (5th District Missouri)

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced that he has secured $15,468,000 in Community Project Funding for public safety, infrastructure, and economic development initiatives across the Fifth Congressional District of Missouri as part of the 2026 appropriations packages that were recently signed into law. 

“Responsible governance in the United States of America demands compromise in Congress. While the recent funding packages were by no means perfect, they contained vital investments that are important to communities across western Missouri,” said Congressman Cleaver. “I’m proud to have secured more than $15 million within those funding bills that will support public safety, economic development, and infrastructure initiatives in my congressional district, creating safer and more prosperous communities for all our neighbors. As the Representative for Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District, I will continue working to bring additional investments back to western Missouri to meet the needs of hardworking families.”

Included in the recently passed funding packages are 15 separate investments for local projects supported by Congressman Cleaver:

• $2,000,000 to Kansas City, Missouri for a Brush Creek Park Greenway to create improved pedestrian and recreational opportunities for the neighborhoods that were fractured by the Bruce R Watkins Highway Project and the Brush Creek Flood Control Project.
• $1,200,000 to Independence, Missouri for Kentucky Avenue Bridge Replacement to replace the existing bridge that was built in the 1920’s and which has been closed since 2019 due to safety concerns. Replacing the bridge on Kentucky Road, which serves as an arterial roadway for residential and commercial areas through Independence and Sugar Creek, will allow for greater access between communities, quicker response for emergency services, and reduce logistics and scheduling costs for businesses.
• $1,039,000 to Lee’s Summit to purchase additional public safety technology equipment, supporting regional public safety communications and their real-time crime center, enhancing emergency response and coordination for Jackson County, Missouri communities.
• $1,031,000 to Rockhurst University to expand innovative technology programs focused on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
• $1,031,000 to the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) to purchase automated license plate readers to combat reckless driving and boost traffic safety.
• $1,031,000 to the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) to support their Transit Ambassador Program, which is aimed at strengthening transit security during the 2026 World Cup.
• $1,031,000 to KCATA to purchase a combination of public safety technology, including license plate readers, a security camera system, lighting improvements, gun-shot detection systems, and other installation costs.
• $1,031,000 to Foster AdoptConnect to strengthen wraparound support programs intended to provide stability for high-risk youth.
• $1,031,000 to the Mattie Rhodes Center in support of their community-based violence intervention and prevention initiatives.
• $1,031,000 to the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) to purchase additional police cruisers.
• $1,031,000 to KCPD to purchase police aviation technology equipment.
• $1,031,000 to Youth Guidance to support school-based education and crime prevention programs for Kansas City children.
• $850,000 for to Grandview for a Main Street Market, creating a permanent Main Street Market that will also provide an additional multipurpose community space in downtown Grandview, including the construction of a farmer’s market structure both enclosed and open air, restrooms, public parking, solar power, and the development of green space that provides a pocket park and park amenities.
• $850,000 to MCC Longview for their Automotive Institute, providing equipment for training programs within Automotive Technology and Collison Repair, launch a program in Diesel Technology, and permit development of new program tracks focusing on Electric Vehicle Maintenance and Repair.
• $250,000 to North Kansas City, Missouri to Modernize the Town Square, supporting the renovation of the town square located in the block between Armour Road, Erie Street, 18th Avenue, and Swift Street, which is currently underutilized by the community and local businesses.

 

Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes Kansas City, Independence, Lee’s Summit, Raytown, Grandview, Sugar Creek, Greenwood, Blue Springs, North Kansas City, Gladstone, and Claycomo. He is a member of the exclusive House Financial Services Committee and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (7th District of Washington)

Washington (February 5, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) introduced the ICE Out of My Face Act, bicameral legislation that would ban ICE and CPB from acquiring and using facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric identification systems. The ICE Out of My Face Act would also require the deletion of all data collected for use in or by biometric identification systems and allow individuals and state attorneys general to seek civil penalties for violations.

“ICE and CBP agents are using facial recognition technologies to track, target, and surveil individuals across the country,” said Senator Markey. “The Trump administration isn’t deploying these tools to maintain public safety. They are doing so to silence lawful speech and to punish dissent. I’m proud to introduce the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to stop this unaccountable, authoritarian use of facial recognition technologies. Big Brother has no place in a democracy, and we will not allow these Orwellian tools to take root here.”

“We are at an incredibly dangerous moment in this country, where overzealous and overly violent ICE and Border Patrol agents are increasing their use of biometric identification systems. This has become a surveillance state with militarized federal troops on our streets to terrorize and intimidate US citizens and residents alike. We must urgently pass the ICE Out of My Face Act to stop the proliferation of this technology, protect our communities, and protect our democracy,” said Representative Jayapal.

“For years, I’ve been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we’re seeing Trump’s lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tries to tighten his authoritarian grip,” said Senator Merkley. “Without oversight, this technology is dangerous in the hands of any government, and the Trump Administration is abusing it to trample on privacy, freedom of speech, and civil liberties. All freedom-loving Americans must join us to stand up to this assault on folks’ fundamental rights.”

“ICE and CBP have trampled on our Constitution when they build databases of regular people concerned about ICE committing violence in their communities or scan the faces of people on the street to run through their surveillance systems. I’m glad to work with Senator Markey to protect Americans against harassment and biometric surveillance by Trump’s handpicked militia,” said Senator Wyden.

The ICE Out of Our Faces Act is co-sponsored by Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The legislation is endorsed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Fight for the Future, American Civil Liberties Union, The Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology, Free Press Action, Access Now, and Human Rights First.

“It’s past time for the federal government to end its use of this abusive surveillance technology. A great place to start is its use for immigration enforcement, given ICE and CBP’s utter disdain for the law. Face surveillance in the hands of the government is a fundamentally harmful technology, even under strict regulations or if the technology was 100% accurate. We thank the authors of this bill for their leadership in taking steps to end this use of this dangerous and invasive technology,” said India McKinney, Director of Federal Affairs at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

“Facial recognition is a dangerous and invasive surveillance technology, particularly in the hands of an agency that is cavalier with the law, lacks transparency, and avoids oversight. ICE’s use of facial recognition is ripe for abuse and undermines our privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights. The ICE Out of Our Faces Act is a step towards stopping the growing surveillance infrastructure that is undermining Americans’ Constitutional rights, and EPIC is proud to support it,” said Jeramie D. Scott, Senior Counsel & Director, EPIC Surveillance Oversight Program.

“Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has no place in a free society and we will continue to fight to see it banned in every arena: ICE agents should be banned from using it; city and state governments including law enforcement should be banned from using it; and businesses should be banned from using it in all places of public accommodation. We cannot let this regime of data-supercharged fascist witness intimidation become the new normal. It is time to ban facial recognition for good and banning ICE from using it is a great start,” said Lia Holland, Campaigns & Communications Director at Fight for the Future.

“Since Congress gave ICE and Border Patrol hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary funding last year, the Trump administration has doubled down on the use of shadowy surveillance technology to supercharge its lawless and violent immigration operations,” said Kate Voigt, Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU. “The Department of Homeland Security’s use of such biased and error-prone technology to go after our communities and to scare people speaking out against ICE’s abuses is disgusting and blatantly illegal. It’s vital that Congress pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act as soon as possible, and that our leaders use their funding power to rein in these out-of-control agencies.”

“No matter where we’re from or the color of our skin, we should all be able to move freely in our communities without the fear of being spied on by our own government. But right now, facial recognition and other biometric surveillance tools are being used to carry out violent immigration enforcement. The ICE Out of Our Faces Act is essential to start reigning in a growing and unaccountable surveillance state aimed squarely at immigrant communities, communities of color, and people speaking up for their neighbors and loved ones. No administration should be able to weaponize technology against us,” said Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, Vice President of The Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology.

“Biometric surveillance poses an urgent threat to our fundamental rights. Facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technologies have been used by authoritarian regimes around the world to target journalists, protestors, and marginalized communities; they are increasingly central to infrastructures of mass surveillance and criminalization. We are watching these abuses evolve as DHS pours more money into expanding its own surveillance dragnet — including mobile facial recognition tools that ICE and Border Patrol agents are using to profile, track and target people in the street. The ICE Out of Our Faces Act interrupts this trajectory and is a critical step towards safeguarding our communities and our rights,” said Jenna Ruddock, Advocacy Director at Free Press Action.

“At a time of increasingly lawless actions by ICE, we are grateful for Senator Markey taking concrete steps to implement accountability measures to protect our communities with the introduction of the ‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act.’ No government official should be able to hide behind masks while violating our fundamental rights with impunity. Our privacy and security, regardless of our race, nationality, or citizenship, should not be compromised by such dangerous anti-immigrant agendas, as we have seen acted out on the streets of Minneapolis. This bill inserts crucial guardrails for protecting our democracy and we urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this legislation,” said Robyn Barnard, Senior Director of Refugee Advocacy at Human Rights First.

Senator Markey is leading efforts to hold ICE and DHS accountable for their gross violations of Americans’ First Amendment rights and their weaponization of surveillance technologies against peaceful protestors, immigrants, and American citizens.

1. This week, Senator Markey wrote to ICE’s Acting Director Todd Lyons demanding that Lyons immediately confirm or deny reports that the agency is maintaining a so-called “domestic terrorists” database to track individuals protesting ICE activities. 
2. In November, Senator Markey wrote to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, urging the agency to immediately cease using a system of license plate readers (LPRs) and predictive algorithms to monitor the movements of individual Americans. CBP is reportedly using the system to “identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.”
3. Also in November, Senator Markey led his colleagues in requesting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cease the use of their biometric phone application known as Mobile Fortify following a previous unanswered request.
4. In September, Senator Markey wrote to ICE’s Acting Director Todd Lyons, demanding that ICE cease use of Mobile Fortify and requesting detailed information about its policies and practices surrounding the use of biometric technology.
5. In July, Senator Markey, along with Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Schiff (D-Calif.), sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) recent usage of Predator drones and aerial surveillance against peaceful protesters in Los Angeles. In the letter, the senators raised concerns about the threat to the protesters’ privacy and their constitutional rights that are guaranteed by the First Amendment.
6. In June, Senators Markey and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote two letters to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary Noem about the government’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to determine whether an individual poses a national security risk.

Issues: Civil Rights, Immigration

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA)

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Rep Ro Khanna (CA-17)

Washington, DC – Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) led a letter signed by 21 California colleagues calling on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to deploy ICE or other immigration enforcement personnel at the upcoming Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, in Representative Khanna’s district: 

“This should be a moment of celebration, unity, and economic opportunity, not a flashpoint for fear, polarization, and violence,” the lawmakers wrote. “Across the country, aggressive and often indiscriminate ICE operations have caused real harm. They have led to multiple deaths, sparked justified national outrage, and caused lasting damage to trust and well-being in communities.”

“Having ICE at the Super Bowl would undermine public safety, disrupt communities, and threaten the peaceful enjoyment this event should bring to the region and the nation,” the lawmakers continued. “Members of Congress from California are united in a simple principle: public safety is built through trust, not fear. We trust you will give this letter your full and fair consideration under all applicable laws and regulations. We demand DHS rely on standard large-scale event security and coordination with local partners, not immigration enforcement that jeopardizes safety, unity, and economic success.

To read the full letter, click here. 

Signers: Representatives Nanette Barragán, Salud Carbajal, Gil Cisneros, J.Correa, Mark DeSaulnier, Laura Friedman, John Garamendi, Jimmy Gomez, Jared Huffman, Sara Jacobs,  Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Ted Lieu, Zoe Lofgren, Dave Min, Kevin Mullin, Jimmy Panetta, Nancy Pelosi, Luz Rivas, Lateefah Simon, Eric Swalwell, Juan Vargas.  

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

The president signed the fiscal year 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill into law on Tuesday. Norton has secured nearly $15 million in Community Project Funding for D.C. in FY 26.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Judy Chu (CA2-27)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) welcomed the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) decision to conduct a comprehensive study on the impacts of eliminating the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation. 

On December 16, 2025, Reps. Chu and Schrier led 108 of their Democratic colleagues in a letter to GAO requesting this study after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), appointed by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 8-3 to eliminate the long-standing recommendation. 

The GAO study will examine the public health, economic, and equity implications of eliminating the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation. As part of its review, GAO will assess projected public health outcomes, including increased infant infections and long-term conditions such as liver disease and cancer; equity impacts, particularly for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities; and economic effects, including costs to Medicaid and Medicare and any expected changes in cost-sharing for families who choose to continue vaccinating their newborns under the prior standard; and an evaluation of ACIP’s evidence and decision-making process.

“I am thrilled that the Government Accountability Office accepted my request to conduct this important study on the public health, equity, and economic impacts of eliminating the hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation,” said Rep. Chu. “For more than thirty years, doctors, public health officials, and the scientific community have agreed that hepatitis B vaccines are safe and essential to protecting infants from serious illness. These vaccines are especially crucial for our Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community, who make up only 7% of the U.S. population, yet account for 60% of chronic hepatitis B cases. I look forward to reviewing the findings of this study, and I will continue working to ensure that decisions affecting the health and safety of infants and families are guided by science, evidence, and public health expertise.” 

“RFK Jr.’s handpicked Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) decision to roll back the recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth is rooted in reckless conspiracy theories, not science,” said Congresswoman Schrier, M.D. “I’m glad to see that the GAOhas accepted our request to study the widespread impacts of the decision, and I will continue to fight against these dangerous moves that erode the foundation of our nation’s public health and put the health of millions of Americans – particularly children – at risk.”

The December 2025 letter was signed by Representatives Gabe Amo (RI-01), Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Becca Balint (VT-AL), Nanette Barragán (CA-44), Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Wesley Bell (MO-01), Donald Beyer (VA-08), Brendan Boyle (PA-02), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Troy Carter (LA-02), Sean Casten (IL-06), Kathy Castor (FL-14), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Gilbert Cisneros (CA-31), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Steve Cohen (TN-09), Herbert Conaway (NJ-03), Angie Craig (MN-02), Sharice Davids (KS-03), Danny Davis (IL-07), Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Valerie Foushee (NC-04), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), John Garamendi (CA-08), Jesús García (IL-04), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Daniel Goldman (NY-10), Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07), Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), Jared Huffman (CA-02), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Henry Johnson (GA-04), Robin Kelly (IL-02), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Greg Landsman (OH-01), John Larson (CT-01), George Latimer (NY-16), Summer Lee (PA-12), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Stephen Lynch (MA-08), John Mannion (NY-22), Doris Matsui (CA-07), Lucy McBath (GA-07), April McClain Delaney (MD-06), Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Betty McCollum (MN-04), Robert Menendez (NJ-08), Grace Meng (NY-06), Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Dave Min (CA-47), Kelly Morrison (MN-03), Seth Moulton (MA-06), Kevin Mullin (CA-15), Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Chris Pappas (NH-01), Scott Peters (CA-50), Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Mike Quigley (IL-05), Delia Ramirez (IL-03), Deborah Ross (NC-02), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Linda Sánchez (CA-38), Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), Janice Schakowsky (IL-09), Bradley Schneider (IL-10), Terri Sewell (AL-07), Lateefah Simon (CA-12), Adam Smith (WA-09), Darren Soto (FL-09), Greg Stanton (AZ-04), Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), Thomas Suozzi (NY-03), Eric Swalwell (CA-14), Mark Takano (CA-39), Shri Thanedar (MI-13), Bennie Thompson (MS-02), Mike Thompson (CA-04), Dina Titus (NV-01), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Jill Tokuda (HI-02), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Norma Torres (CA-35), Ritchie Torres (NY-15), Lori Trahan (MA-03), Derek Tran (CA-45), Juan Vargas (CA-52), Marc Veasey (TX-33), Nydia Velázquez (NY-07), James Walkinshaw (VA-11), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), George Whitesides (CA-27), and Nikema Williams (GA-05).

Full text of the Members’ December 205 letter is available here and text of the GAO’s acceptance letter is available here.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Earl L Buddy Carter (GA-01)

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