But this is precisely the kind of thing that makes it possible for a university to receive a substantial budgetary appropriation and still find itself chronically strapped for funding.
Moreover, such restructuring has had to be implemented within a fixed budgetary appropriation, which has been declining in real terms for several biennia, without recourse to additional financial or human resources.
The annual budgetary process known as congressional appropriations can be an unpredictable ordeal for an agency with high fixed costs and little flexibility to make spending cuts.
As president, Nixon cut Congressional spending by "impounding" appropriations; in 1974, Congress reclaimed its budgetary power from a weakened presidency with the "Impoundment Control Act," which introduced the reconciliation device.
It has bypassed the normal budgetary process, financing the war almost entirely through "emergency" appropriations that get far less scrutiny.
Because the commission is financed by Congressional appropriations, it has long been trapped in a budgetary vise, without enough staff members to police illegal activity.
Among them was a bill approved by a voice vote to restore funding to D.C., a move which currently requires budgetary approval from Congress even though D.C. doesn't rely on appropriations and raises its own money.
To do this, they want to approve a series of "appropriations bills" embodying spending restrictions in 12 out of 13 budgetary areas (the exception is defence: everyone agrees it must rise massively).
Representative Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican who chairs the foreign operations subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, criticized the administration for granting valuable but vaguely defined "budgetary support," rather than financing well-supervised individual projects.
Because of budgetary rules, it requires 60 votes to remove overturning DADT from a military appropriations bill.
