Sentence examples for appropriations amendment from inspiring English sources

However, that appropriations amendment must be reauthorized this year.

"Now we know," she said, attacking Congress's 11th-hour move to void the Nov. 3 marijuana initiative by passing an appropriations amendment that bars the city from spending even the smallest amount of money to tally and promulgate the result.

An appropriations amendment offered by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif).

Reacting to a defense appropriations amendment sponsored by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich).

However, being an appropriations amendment, it needs to be reauthorized every year.

In May 2014, the House passed an appropriations amendment, introduced by Reps.

Although the city was able to have access to the data in its suit, originally filed in 2000, the gun manufacturers had argued that the lawsuit should be dismissed because of a Congressional appropriations bill amendment that made the data inadmissible.

An earlier appropriations bill amendment by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) proposed cutting the agency's water off by "prohibit[ing] the FCC from using any appropriated funds to adopt, implement or otherwise litigate any network neutrality based rules, protocols or standards".

The gun lobby in Congress, as brazen as it is shameless, recently scored an alarming coup among compliant lawmakers by jamming a routine appropriations bill with amendments to undermine federal laws that track illicit firearms.

In the District of Columbia, Representative Bob Barr, a conservative Republican from Georgia, had inserted into the District's Federal appropriation bill an amendment to bar the District from counting votes in Tuesday's medical marijuana initiative.

Worse still, rules issued in June by House leadership have limited amendments to appropriations bills this year, which may block the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment from ever having a vote this year.