Sentence examples for appropriations package from inspiring English sources
Mr. Reagan is a determined man and might nevertheless veto the whole appropriations package.
The first was approval of a $401 billion military appropriations package for next year, the biggest ever.
The White House, meanwhile, has threatened to veto the entire $139 billion appropriations package if the Senate provision opposing the overtime revision remains in it.
The 50 to 47 vote fell far short of the needed 60 votes to include the $250 million amendment, proposed by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt)., in an appropriations package that the Senate was set to approve Wednesday.
Representative C. W. Bill Young, the Florida Republican who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said, "We are pleased to have reached agreement with House and Senate Republicans and Democrats, as well as the administration, on a final appropriations package".
The House GOP did add such language to the funding bill it passed, so there will be a renewed opportunity for Republicans to try to get the language into a final appropriations package when the two chambers negotiate their competing versions.
The budget request is part of the emergency supplemental appropriation package that was sent to House and Senate committees last week.
It's a creation that lies somewhere between a real budget and an emergency appropriation, a package with just enough money to keep the state idling along at minimal speed until mid-September, when everybody may be in the mood to try again.
laid out to The Huffington Post recently is that the House takes the remaining appropriations bills, packages them into two or three measures, passes them, and then the Senate combines them into one omnibus.
Known as the "Make America Secure Appropriations Act," the House package consists of four of the 12 annual government spending bills.
"Please know that we cannot and will not support any funding resolution – an appropriations bill, an omnibus package, a continuing resolution, or otherwise – that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, including mandatory funding streams".
