Sentence examples for clean spending from inspiring English sources

Senate Democrats maintained that the House, in one of those sessions, could adopt a clean spending bill by unanimous consent.

"I believe the votes are there," said Mr. Dent, who added that he would vote for a clean spending bill.

President Obama talked about the toll the shutdown was having on Americans, and he urged the House to take a vote on a clean spending bill.

Senate leaders are likely to wait as long as they can to send a clean spending plan back to the House.

What the speaker should be doing is the only thing that will spare the economy this unnecessary trauma: putting a clean spending bill and debt-ceiling increase before the full House for a vote, making it clear that the shrill voices of extremists have been silenced.

A good part of the government will shut down at midnight, when the fiscal year ends, if there's no agreement; the Senate Democrats' plan is to wait until this afternoon to reject the amendments, giving the House only enough time to reject or approve a clean spending bill, rather than initiating an extra cycle of legislative sabotage.

Democrats have been insisting all week that even a "clean" stopgap spending bill is not great for Democrats because it extrapolates from base spending levels that take into account the "meat-cleaver" sequester cuts.

Congress, whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, routinely sent Obama's predecessor, George W Bush, "clean" stopgap spending bills and debt-limit increases.

Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from international climate agreements, cut clean energy spending and loosen regulations for fossil fuel companies.

"More than anything, what South Korea can do now is keep its promises," said a 2010 report from the Pew Environment Group, noting that the government has "laid the groundwork for a boom in clean energy spending".

But Senate Democrats, including Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia who is chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over the F.A.A., objected to their inclusion in what they said should have been a "clean" temporary spending measure.