But that's subject to appropriations and Congress is not likely to appropriate additional money," said Ron Pollack of the advocacy group Families USA.
VHA facilities were encouraged to generate additional revenues from sources other than Congressional appropriations and took two approaches to obtaining non-appropriated revenues.
Most Republicans are focusing on their control of the appropriations and spending procedures in Congress.
They embrace appropriations and champion pork with an enthusiasm that makes your eyes pop.
"I'm very happy to be guided by the [Senate's] appropriations and staffing committee..
"He has to have not just budget coordination power but budget and appropriations and reprogramming power".
There's a cheerful secondhandness here, a sense of vague appropriations and unnamed sources at work.
This is because government expenditures result from appropriations and other forms of commitments; cash expenditures may follow appropriations and other commitments of money only after a considerable lag, notably in the case of construction and procurement.
Both agencies rely on Congress for their appropriations, and neither can carry out its new duties without more money.
Leaders of appropriations and finance committees in Congress have long held a reputation as a third party unto themselves.
"It is appropriations and appropriations," Stuart Roy, a spokesman for the House majority leader, Tom DeLay of Texas, said.
