It's a faithful appropriation, with clear vocals and sly guitar filigree; I prefer it to the original.
Hastert, it seemed, was taking his cues from the White House, and at some point after Schumer's conversation with Card, Hastert threw his support behind a $40 billion appropriation, with half to go to the three states in which the hijacked planes had crashed -- New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania -- and the majority of that $20 billion to go to New York.
Because in my mind there is no difference between passing an appropriations bill with earmarks intended to reward lobbyists and passing an appropriations bill with legislative language intended to reward lobbyists.
The House is expected to vote today on an appropriations bill with a provision that would make it practically impossible for the Justice Department to finance its lawsuit against the industry.
With the nation's attention diverted by the drama over the debt ceiling, Republicans in the House of Representatives are loading up an appropriations bill with 39 ways — and counting — to significantly curtail environmental regulation.
Yet instead of a Senate vote on the act, a handful of Congressional appropriators cut a deal with the administration: a one-year appropriation with promises that may or may not be kept for future financing in succeeding years.
The railroad president, David L. Gunn, said in a letter to senators on Wednesday that the $1.34 billion "leaves us at great risk in terms of reliability" but that Amtrak could continue operating with an appropriation of that size "and hopefully not worsen the amount of deferred maintenance".
This experimental study examines behavior in a linear public goods game with an appropriation frame where we vary the value of individual benefits and the group losses from appropriation.
Congress further aided the road in 1835 with an appropriation of $25,000 (equivalent to $ in ) for a 20 feet road on 100 feet of right-of-way.
The one-and-half story Barrington Town Hall was designed and constructed between 1887 and 1888 by Stone, Carpenter and Wilson of Providence, Rhode Island with an appropriation of $15,000.
