The phrase "a regular appropriation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, budgeting, or resource allocation, typically referring to a consistent or standard allocation of funds or resources.
Example: "The government has approved a regular appropriation for education funding to ensure schools receive adequate financial support each year."
Alternatives: "a standard allocation" or "a consistent funding".
ARPA-E, which doesn't have a regular appropriation, sought $300 million in 2011.
Pulling NSF out of the CR and giving it a regular appropriation allowed Mikulski to increase spending for several NSF programs beyond what they would have received under the CR.
By covering those agencies with what is called a regular appropriation, Mikulski's bill would replace both the rigid terms of sequestration in which every program suffers the same spending reduction and the constraints that accompany a continuing resolution.
But they will expire when the budget year ends on Sept. 30 unless Congress includes them in a regular appropriations bill.
And without those votes, Republicans would lack the majority to adopt the document, imperiling the return to a regular appropriations process and threatening to make post-office naming bills a staple of the congressional agenda.
Before they left for August break last week, the House was able to pass a so-called minibus ― a downsized omnibus bill that encompassed four of the 12 appropriations bills ― but that legislation is going nowhere in the Senate, and most lawmakers acknowledge that a regular appropriations process where Congress approves individual spending bills is hopeless.
But, he added, basing a continuing resolution on last year's regular appropriation "would not be a good thing for Amtrak".
Congress still has the opportunity to renew the regular appropriation in a coming omnibus budget bill, but it must bolster that with extra support for the program.
If Amtrak received 90percentt of the amount it got in fiscal 2002 in the regular appropriation, the railroad would run out of money this winter.
The bill he signed provides $5.5 billion for agricultural businesses and farmers beyond the regular appropriation for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The purpose of this paper is to design a dynamic allocation mechanism that adjusts the provisions of the LIHEAP statute relative to the level of the regular appropriation.
