Sentence examples for appropriations members from inspiring English sources

The ethics committee said that while PMA pushed its clients to have companies seeking earmarks donate money to defense appropriations members, the evidence did not show that members themselves were directly involved.

And appropriations staff members are considered insufficiently deferential to the wishes of the leadership.

The Murtha money trail is far from fully explored but already features a second tangent of Congressional appropriations staff members' exiting through the golden door to defense lobbying and scoring big contracts from their old bosses.

In January 2014, in the quiet corners of the congressional appropriations committees, panel members tacked a classified annex onto a must-pass omnibus spending measure restricting the administration's ability to make the shift.

KATE TAYLOR MEMBER ITEMS Asked directly by a moderator if she ever used the Council discretionary appropriations known as "member items" as political leverage, Ms. Quinn said no.

Mr. Lamont also complains frequently about earmarks, the special appropriations designated by individual members of Congress for pet projects.

The two versions will go to a conference committee, probably one that will consider several last-minute appropriations bills, Congressional staff members said.

Today, the full House is expected to vote on the appropriations bill, and several members of the New York delegation predicted that the state-to-city ratio would remain as written.

In the middle of the Appropriations markup, the ranking member, Jerry Lewis from California, asked his chairman the crucial question: What happens when the economy recovers?

A review of member-item spending by The New York Times in 2006 found that 10 of the 62 senators controlled a third of the Senate's member-item appropriations.

Appropriations' current minority ranking member, Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), is the likely new chair.