Sentence examples for appropriations measures from inspiring English sources

Of 13 appropriations measures, only the defense spending bill is likely to be approved before Congress goes home.

Lawmakers traditionally use appropriations measures to lay out policy battles, and this year will be no exception.

The decisions about whom he will vote with could affect not only the Senate leadership, but also the shape of the proposed Homeland Security Department and the ability to pass crucial appropriations measures that have been stalled.

However, the House Republicans who despise those bills are the same ones who have voted down individual appropriations measures or helped load them up with policy riders that contributed to their failure on the House floor.

But the failure to pass appropriations measures this year would prove an embarrassment for the Republican leaders of the House and Senate, who have repeatedly criticized Democrats for failing to pass spending bills last year.

Some House Republicans also fear a large spending bill, known as an omnibus, that would replace appropriations measures to fund the government, possibly at levels far higher than current spending.

He had less trouble voting against the $79 billion appropriations measure to pay for the war.

Leading Republican conservatives have attached amendments banning interrogation using torture to the Pentagon's appropriations measure for the coming year.

House Democrats are expected to attach money for the loan program to a larger appropriations measure that could come to a vote in Congress this week.

The fight played out today in the form of amendments to a $390 billion appropriations measure that the Senate has been considering for a week.

House Democrats are hoping to attach financing for the loans in an energy bill, an economic stimulus package or a broader appropriations measure.