Every year he asked for bigger appropriations for the army and navy.
When he tried to explain that his votes for Title X family planning funding were the result of voting for bigger appropriations bills, the audience booed as if to say: no excuses.
With platoons of lobbyists, including a former senator from Washington State, and contributions to important members of Congress, Norwegian Cruise persuaded Congress to approve its entry into a protected American market in the fine print of a big appropriations bill passed this year.
John Kerry has voted for the biggest military appropriations bill in the country's history.
John Kerry has voted for the biggest intelligence appropriations in the country's history.
As a practical matter, lawmakers do not have the kind of leverage over Middle East policy that they have on matters that require Congressional approval, like the arms treaty with Russia currently being blocked by Senate Republicans, or big-ticket appropriations, like the health care law.
Acting committee chairman A. Willis Robertson, D., Va., manager for the biggest peacetime defense appropriation bill in history, said the full measure as approved by the committee now carries nearly $47 billion to cover all aspects of defense.
There was a semi-big win for appropriation art, not to mention appropriation artist Richard Prince and New York's Gagosian Gallery.
Fashion is one of the biggest offenders of cultural appropriation.
But she, too, had been looking for a way to parlay identity appropriation into bigger profits.
