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| https://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=d5567b45-db10-48a5-88e9-6cc4bf2c8df7 | Isakson Statement on Senate Passage of Government Funding Measure | 2014-12-13 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Republican | House | GA | Johnny Isakson | I000055 | www.isakson.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., tonight released the following statement regarding the Senate passage of H.R.83, the omnibus/continuing resolution appropriations legislation to fund the government: “Omnibus appropriations bills are never a good way to do business, and come January 6, 2015, the new Republican Senate majority will return to doing individual and transparent appropriations bills throughout the year in a timely fashion. The American people deserve no less. “The Fiscal Year 2015 Omnibus included a number of important provisions for America and for Georgia. First and foremost, the bill keeps the administration on a short leash by giving the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces immigration, only enough funding to operate until February 2015. That allows the new Republican majority to then revisit this agency’s budget and begin to dismantle the effects of the president’s amnesty executive order. I also voted to condemn the president’s amnesty executive action by supporting a point of order tonight declaring it unconstitutional. “Additionally, the bill includes funding and strong language to ensure the federal government will continue to pay its share of the cost of Georgia’s number one economic development project -- the expansion and deepening of the Port of Savannah. “The omnibus bill also includes a provision to rein in the EPA’s overreach with respect to the agency’s ‘waters of the United States’ proposal, which would subject Georgia’s farmers to costly and intrusive federal regulation and would harm Georgia’s biggest industry. “I will continue my fight next year to reform America’s budget and spending process from an annual to a biennial budget, reserving every other year for mandatory oversight to ensure that we demand accountability from existing programs before we spend money on new ones.” The Senate voted 56-40 on final passage of the nine-month government funding bill. The House passed H.R.83 on Thursday, December 11, 2014 by a vote of 219-206. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |