The phrase "a single appropriations" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a single appropriation" if referring to one allocation of funds.
Example: "The committee approved a single appropriation for the new project."
Alternatives: "one allocation" or "a sole funding".
By far the largest single appropriation is $11.5 billion for the Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account for "unsubsidized guaranteed loans" under Section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
The new budget year begins on Oct. 1, and Congress has failed to pass a single one of the appropriations.
It failed to pass a budget or a single one of 13 appropriations bills that fund federal agencies.
The minibus moniker is a play on the "omnibus" tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.
On a visceral level, as a single Mother, I resent the Republican appropriation of the "family values" brand.
Although appropriations bills cover only a single fiscal year, the conferees also tried to shape the president's 2011 request for NSF.
It is funded as part of the Federal Reserve system, which means its budget cannot be cut through the congressional appropriations process, and it has a single powerful director, rather than the bipartisan boards found at other agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Although the president has the initial responsibility for determining the proposed level of appropriations, once estimates for the next fiscal year are submitted to Congress, a single budget bill is not enacted, but rather a number of appropriation bills for various departments and agencies are passed during the first six or seven months of a session.
Instead, the two chambers are expected to hammer out a so-called omnibus appropriations bill that rolls funding for many government agencies into a single bill.
