Sentence examples for appropriations spending from inspiring English sources

In the short term, with the 109th Congress having punted on fiscal 2007 appropriations, spending authorized by the 2005 surface transportation act hangs in the balance.

The Kansas Republican saw this bill as prelude to a fight in December over the budget, seeing the possibility of attaching a rider on refugee policy to an appropriations (spending) bill.

The 2-day debate on the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations spending bill  also gave Representative Ted Poe (R TX) an opportunity to win support for his long-running assault on the American Community Survey (ACS), a monthly questionnaire that goes out to 3.5 million people and supplements the decennial census.

See Soguel and Ecabert (2015) for more information pertaining additional budget appropriation, spending drift and rebudgeting.

His years on Appropriations were spent not just juggling favours and nitpicking on procedure, but also proudly channelling money to the hills and hollows: making gravel tracks into Robert C. Byrd Freeways, turning fetid lock-ups into Robert C. Byrd Correctional Institutions, setting up the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to look at the stars.

In the unlikely event -- unlikely, that is, before the Civil War -- that appropriations outpaced revenues, Congress implicitly left it to the president to keep expenditures and revenues in line by not spending appropriations that were permissive rather than mandatory.

On spending, we would put a hard cap on all appropriations that freezes spending at fiscal 2008 levels.

Most Republicans are focusing on their control of the appropriations and spending procedures in Congress.

However, partly because of delays between appropriations and spending, the Congressional Budget Office reckons that the actual reduction in outlays will be about forty-five billion dollars, which is only about a quarter of one per cent of G.D.P.

Town officials are debating whether to boost its appropriation in the program, spending more per house, or to invest in fewer houses, or to require qualified families to get bigger mortgages, or to give up the program altogether and spend the money to build apartments.

Republican members of the appropriations committees that draw up spending bills warned that the spending levels in the budget might be unrealistically low.