With the launch of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) public apportionment database, House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth (D-KY-03) and House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) marked a historic achievement in the Committees’ shared efforts to reassert Congress’ Article I powers of the purse and increase transparency and oversight of Executive Branch spending.

Kentucky Representative John Yarmuth, Chair of the House Budget Committee, released a statement on the Omnibus Appropriations package signed into law by President Joe Biden this afternoon. The Omnibus included provisions authored by Chairman Yarmuth and contained in Title V of the Protecting Our Democracy Act which, for the first time, will require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make apportionments public and report all apportionments to Congress.