Sentence examples for appropriations laws from inspiring English sources

"We doubt that the direct consequences of the appropriations laws temporarily precluding ACORN from federal funds were so disproportionately severe or so inappropriate as to constitute punishment".

The solution under this option would be to interpret the appropriations laws as implicitly authorizing sufficient borrowing to allow the president to both carry out those laws and to repay U.S. debts on time, notwithstanding the debt limit statute.

Its premise is that Congress's failure to raise the debt ceiling would leave the president with two irreconcilable demands -- carry out Congress' spending instructions as contained in current appropriations laws, but do not borrow money sufficient to carry out those instructions and repay debts already incurred.

Federal officials could not waive any restriction or limitation imposed in an appropriations law.

The solar panel provision in the defense appropriations law comes as President Obama has ordered a broad investigation into whether Chinese export subsidies, local content requirements and other rules have violated W.T.O.

Judge Roberts reluctantly agreed with the government's legal position: that a wartime appropriations law allowed President Bush to void some laws concerning Iraq, including the one under which the plaintiffs had sought to collect their judgment.

But Ms. Corrigan discovered "no criminal violations," though she sent her findings to the General Accounting Office, a Congressional investigative arm, to determine if Medicare officials had violated an appropriations law that protects the right of federal employees to communicate with Congress.

In her speech today, Mrs. Whitman sounded a note of caution about the tobacco money, which is certain to come under pressure from lawmakers during the budget negotiation process, which by law and tradition must end with passage of an appropriations law before the end of June.

The complainants assert that federal policy, which allows the use of human embryonic stem cells but not their derivation by federally-funded scientists, violates the Dickey-Wicker amendment, a provision in the NIH appropriations law which prohibits federal grantees from doing research on human embryos.

The senators reminded Kerry that current appropriations law prohibits economic assistance to the Palestinians if they initiate or "actively support" a war crimes investigation against Israeli nationals.

With 20-25 percent of the national budget reserved for debt service payments because of the draconian Automatic Appropriations Law, government finances were in a state of permanent and widening deficit, which the administration tried to solve by contracting more loans.