2017: Fitzpatrick Voted For The House GOP's FY 2018 Omnibus That
Included Funding For Trump's Wall. In September 2017, Fitzpatrick
voted for an FY 2018 Omnibus appropriations bill that. According to The
Hill, "The House on Thursday completed its work on the annual
appropriations bills for 2018, ahead of expected negotiations at the end
of this year to keep the government funded. By a vote of 211-198, the
House passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills to fund wide
swaths of the federal government, ranging from the Department of
Homeland Security to the Environmental Protection Agency. [...] The
package included eight new bills, plus four previously passed
appropriations bills that advanced through the House in July. Regular
order for appropriations typically involved passing each of the bills
individually, not in groups of 4 or 8. [...] Together, the bills
appropriate $621.5 billion for defense spending and $511 billion for
nondefense discretionary spending. It also devotes another $87 billion
in Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) funding, which does not count
toward budget cuts. Of that, $75 billion went to defense, $12 billion
to nondefense." The vote was on passage. The House passed the bill by a
vote of 211 to 198. The Senate took no substantive action on the overall
legislation. [House Vote 528,
9/14/17; The Hill,
9/14/17;
Congressional Actions, H.R.
3354]