Then the president vetoed the appropriation containing the first year's payment.
One question: Why shouldn't appropriations be contained in relevant appropriation bills instead of being used as political candy?
This was bad news because those aborted 2007 appropriations bills contained increases for physical science so large that researchers were uncorking champagne bottles in anticipation.
And there could be another emergency for Iraqis seeking visas after the three-month extension if an agreement on an annual defense appropriations bill containing a longer extension stalls.
The appropriations bill contains provisions that would strip the FCC of the ability to enforce the Order.
The current appropriations bill contains three distinct versions of the ban on government money to ACORN, each with a minor difference.
Just two days after again promising the nation that he would veto every single spending bill with earmarks to cross his desk, John McCain said on Sunday that he would have voted for an appropriations bill containing two thousand earmarks.
According to a press release from DC's non-voting congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the House appropriations bill contains two other DC-related riders one to prohibit the city from enforcing its gun control laws, and another to stop it from spending local funds on abortion services.
In January the president signed an appropriations bill that contained an amendment forbidding some government divisions to use foreign companies when outsourcing work.
