Sentence examples for appropriations- from inspiring English sources

Clancy also asked the appropriations committee to support an $8m project to build a fake White House in Maryland to use for training, and he said the secret service was working on a plan for a new White House fence expected to be completed in a year and a half.

Director Joseph Clancy, who has the task of building the secret service back after multiple public drunkenness scandals and a leadership overhaul, asked the House appropriations committee on Tuesday to support the construction of the fake White House.

Libertarian-minded Republicans in the House, who are allies of Paul's, said on Tuesday they will attempt to use a must-pass defense appropriations bill as a vehicle to advance more surveillance reforms.

The agents had been at a reception and were returning to the White House to pick up one of the agent's cars, Clancy told a House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

Using an agriculture appropriations bill (and the sort of policymaking that allowed pizza sauce to be counted as a vegetable), House Republicans propose allowing schools to apply for waivers if their school-food programmes are losing money.The SNA does have some reasonable-sounding points.

By this week, Congress had given itself 20 extensions from the original budget deadline of October 1st.It still has one of 13 bills to vote on, the appropriations for education, labour, and health and human services.

The problem is an amendment that Mr Byrd tacked on to this year's agriculture-appropriations bill in the committee to thrash out differences between the House and Senate.

Both the governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, and the head of the state's House Appropriations Committee, Chuck Moss, argue that yet another infusion of cash will not solve Detroit's underlying problems.

"I have no intention of ceding that authority to the executive branch," said Daniel Inouye, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.Meanwhile, Congress's own fiscal efforts have produced one damp squib after another.

What Mr Kingston's loss showed is that for all that tea-party energy, there is life in the old porkers yet.At 55 and with 16 years of service on the Appropriations Committee, Mr Kingston was the junior candidate: Jerry Lewis, from California, is 76 and arrived in 1981; he chaired the committee from 2005 to 2007.

As the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee's defence subcommittee, he directed hundreds of millions of dollars to his district.