Sentence examples for automatic appropriations from inspiring English sources

So far, $1.7 billion — including automatic appropriations for last year's budget — has been sent to more than two dozen programs.

With 20-25 percent of the national budget reserved for debt service payments because of the draconian Automatic Appropriations Law, government finances were in a state of permanent and widening deficit, which the administration tried to solve by contracting more loans.

Congress has considered adopting automatic continuing appropriations reforms.

State and federal legislators should follow the lead of Wisconsin and Rhode Island and enact provisions for automatic continuing appropriations.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has more than once introduced the End Government Shutdowns Act, which would implement a form of automatic continuing appropriations.

In 1999, 164 House Republicans voted to enact an automatic continuing appropriations provision, but they were joined by only eight of their Democratic colleagues and the bill failed.

It would also improve party discipline, by strengthening the hand of leaders over the uppity dynasts in their ranks.A more radical step would be the abolition of the most egregious form of congressional pork: an automatic annual appropriation of 65m pesos for each representative, and 200m pesos for each senator, to spend on development projects of their choice.

The bill creates an automatic CR for any regular appropriations bill not completed before the end of the fiscal year.

Just $1.4 trillion is domestic and military spending that he and Congress directly control through annual appropriations; the rest is mostly automatic spending for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and interest on debt of $12.4 trillion.

The bill under consideration, H.R. 1216, would eliminate the program's automatic funding and shift the money into an appropriation subject to annual renewal in Congress.

"Two-thirds of current expenditures are dedicated to a relatively small number of automatic spending programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which are not subject to annual appropriations and therefore operate largely outside the control of Congress," Mr. Price said in a recent speech.