Sentence examples for expensive appropriations from inspiring English sources

In contrast, "party conservatives" are first of all Republicans who tend to be pro-business and, like Mr. Linder, will hold their noses and vote for an expensive appropriations bill because they think the majority party has a duty to govern.

The bill closely resembles Mr. Bush's original request for supplemental spending, and it was hailed by the White House as a victory in efforts to prevent members of Congress from loading appropriations bills with expensive projects to benefit small groups of their constituents.

And soon it may be different no longer; for after years of ludicrously expensive design rivalry, the defence appropriation for 2014 prohibits the services from designing new uniforms, unless they will be used by all members of the armed forces.Remarkably, the Department of Defence has no single department dedicated to researching, developing and procuring the best uniforms for all troops.

As it stands, the current appropriations process is looking like one very expensive bridge to nowhere.

"I do not believe every problem starts and ends with larger and more expensive government," he said in testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee.

This time it's the Yazoo Pump, a senseless (and expensive) project buried in the Senate version of a huge appropriations bill now headed to a House-Senate conference.

More specifically, it is most implausible to hold that the consent of others is required for appropriation when communication with others is impossible, extremely difficult, or expensive (as it almost always is).

In recent interviews, Mr. Cuomo has made clear that he believes his administration will be judged on the strength of his first budget, which will contain not only appropriations for next year, but also the kernels of his most ambitious proposals: an overhaul of New York's expensive Medicaid system, a reorganization of Albany's bloated bureaucracy and tighter ethics oversight.

Congress gave its unwitting permission by passing emergency appropriations funding for the defense department to reload the precision weaponry expended in Afghanistan, and a very expensive accelerated program to get all these munitions to the military by September or October so that war can be waged this fall.

Some of them will need expensive care for the rest of their lives, money that doesn't quite show up in the various appropriation bills that keep the wars going.

With municipalities being unable to manage their budget and mayors embarking on expensive investment with intergenerational implications, the government had to set up a fund (2014 Finance Orientation Law) with a yearly appropriation of €100 million for the next 15 years to bail out local governments that were unable to repay the debts that PPP incurred.