U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., retained his chairmanship of the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday.
The subcommittee has jurisdiction over the federal judiciary, the U.S. Treasury, the District of Columbia, the Executive Office of the President including the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the White House. Other agencies under the subcommittee include the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Election Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the General Services Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Postal Service.
U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., also placed Crenshaw back in the Defense and State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Families and businesses across America make tough financial decisions each day and expect Congress to do the same, Crenshaw said on Wednesday. In the 114th Congress, House members will debate and vote on a wide range of issues that will determine the way forward for our nation for generations to come.
As I work with Chairman Rogers and subcommittee colleagues in the months ahead, my focus will be on achieving clearly-defined and thoroughly-analyzed policy that builds fiscal responsibility, protects national security, and utilizes foreign aid in an effective and streamlined manner, Crenshaw added.
Crenshaw said he would continue to fight to keep the IRS in check and would ensure that the First Coast retains an important role in national defense.
Continuing to hold the Internal Revenue Service accountable, cutting wasteful government spending, reviewing regulations, reforming entitlements, and instituting pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues, and reduces the debt are areas we will target in the Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee, Crenshaw said. A seat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will allow me to ensure that the needs of our nations military bases, including those in Northeast Florida, are met and that our men and women in uniform have the tools they need to protect national security at home and around the globe.
As a member of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance, I look forward to reviewing programs that help shape our international policy objectives, Crenshaw said. Through effective delivery of foreign assistance, our nation can achieve stable international relationships, accountability and transparency, access and development of sustainable global markets, poverty reduction, and greater national security. In our increasingly interconnected world, these goals are in everyones best interest.
Crenshaw previously served as the chairman of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee.
First elected to Congress in 2000, Crenshaw, the son-in-law of the late Gov. Claude Kirk, R-Fla., is a veteran Florida Republican, serving as president of the Florida Senate during the early 1990s and making a bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1994. Crenshaw marched on the Florida political stage in the early 1970s, serving in the Florida House and running as the Republican candidate to be Florida secretary of state in 1978. Crenshaw also made a bid for the U.S. Senate back in 1980 where he placed third in the Republican primary.
During his time in Congress, Crenshaw has easily won on the Republican-leaning First Coast despite conservative challengers in the primaries and the general elections. Sitting on the Appropriations Committee, Crenshaw has been an active supporter of the First Coasts defense community. In recent years, Crenshaw has been vocal in trying to bring an aircraft carrier to Mayport.
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