But on the other, the amendment attached to the appropriations bill could be more popular among those members who felt the financing resolution amounted to back-door authorization.
(Also, with no earmarks, I think it gives the executive branch more leeway to apportion appropriations, but I could be wrong on that).
The idea is that, while there may not be enough time to do the remaining appropriations bills, it could be possible to combine similar spending measures and pass them in groups.
"The Legislature allowed us to broaden the definition of inmate welfare and it got to the point, almost anything they would fund through appropriations could now be paid for as inmate welfare," he says.
In 1992, concerned that the limits were being lifted too often, Congress provided as part of the bureau's annual appropriation that no money could be spent to act on such applications.
In her book she explains how the word "peasant" is ripe for re-appropriation, and how it could be used to denote someone who produces high-quality ingredients that are "used to make sustaining food, cooked with love, skill and a degree of care".
She was supported by Representative Harold Rogers of Kentucky, senior Republican on the appropriations subcommittee, who said the plan could be refined.
In a blow to Obama's conservative critics, the Republican chairman of the House appropriations committee, which Republicans had hoped could be used to defund any presidential action over immigration, said it was not technically possible.
A Senate staffer calls the report "extremely helpful" and notes that many steps could be implemented by appropriations committees "fairly quickly".
Parker Posey, traveling with her sister (Susan Yeagley), is an armadillo from a Southern college that almost gets disqualified because her team, the Leaping Squaw, could be considered cultural appropriation.
