"If his paycheck doesn't get here on Friday, we may not have enough for the mortgage".. Federal workers at the agencies affected by the gap in appropriations go unpaid as long as the shutdown lasts.
As visual appropriation goes, the image is a no-brainer.
"Those in power will appropriate the counterculture to their own ends," said Mr. Moore, who, like other filmmakers I talked to, seemed taken aback by just how far this particular appropriation goes.
When white singers borrowed from black genres -- rock and roll, funk, disco -- for the Bond-songs, they usually acknowledged that there was appropriation going on.
The emergency appropriations proposal which went into fine detail gave $1.509 billion to HHS (which oversees NIH and CDC), $335 million to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and $41 million to the State Department.
By contrast, while US funding in the same appropriations bills went from $600 million to $750 million per year for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, the funding increase for the childhood vaccines equivalent - the GAVI Alliance http://www.gavialliance.org only increased by $3 million, from $75 to $78 million.
But he changed his tune soon after an appropriations measure went down on the floor, following an amendment ensuring that government contractors can't be fired simply for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender was added to an energy and water spending bill.
Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes.
President Bush has threatened to veto appropriations that go beyond his requests, and there are powerful interests in Congress that are skeptical of increased agency financing.
THisks St Jerorme's Laneway it's beauty blast.
