The chiefs are aware that public concern over law & order has brought a 63-million-dollar appropriation from Congress for assistance to local law-enforcement agenies.
Similarly, he made changes to the state's Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes in the description of a multibillion-dollar appropriation.
Then he voted against the eighty-seven-billion-dollar appropriation to fund reconstruction, as well as military operations, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
WIC usually gets a roughly seven-billion-dollar appropriation but, without a congressional agreement, spending is now down to a contingency fund of only a hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
As Starr notes, it wasn't until 1843, when Congress, by a narrow vote, gave Samuel Morse a thirty-thousand-dollar appropriation to help him test his invention, that, practically overnight, American telegraphy took off.
Let every ten-billion-dollar appropriation for planes and ships trail a quiet little rider with something rather good buried in it (we ourself would like to see it made a federal offence to play a portable radio on the beach. View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Alan Burdick By Atul Gawande.
Out of spite, it seems, Long blocked a hundred-million-dollar appropriations bill that the Administration was pushing to finance benefits for crippled children and pensioners.
The difficulty there is that many Republicans are already averse to a trillion-dollar appropriations bill that raises spending caps by $50 billion next year.
When a friend called Kerry's vote against the eighty-seven-billion-dollar war appropriation a "protest vote," Frosheiser said, "Kind of a serious issue to be casting protest votes on".
If we were facing an equivalent military threat capable of killing untold numbers of Americans, there might be presidential commissions and tens of billions of dollars in appropriations, not to mention magazine cover stories.
In my own state of Minnesota, using constant 2010 dollars, public appropriations for higher education per FTE stood at $9,208 in the year 2000.
