Sentence examples for getting appropriations from inspiring English sources

"I realized, because housing has been a backwater, getting appropriations for housing is going to be tough," Frank told me.

"I mean," he added, "there have been over 600 different hearings, and yet they're struggling with getting appropriations bills to my desk".

GEORGE PACKER: One senator spoke in terms of two kinds of Democrats: the veterans, who have grown used to the place and are mainly interested in getting appropriations for their states; and the Democrats (sixteen of them) from the classes of 2006 and 2008, who are frustrated and want change.

went before the press in January at a GOP retreat in Baltimore, both leaders spoke about the importance of getting appropriations bills done.

The Senate's new appropriations chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), was quick to capitalize on the possibility that greater bipartisan cooperation offered for getting appropriations bills through the Senate.

If but a call were made, they would burst forth with intelligent suggestions: about Iraq, about political tactics, about getting additional appropriations.

But analysts said they were surprised to hear Mr. Shalom add that the Israeli Army is getting emergency appropriations to combat the uprising, without specifying where the money is coming from.

This year, even though getting the appropriations process on track was a top goal for the House speaker, Paul Ryan, and Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Congress deadlocked and could not get a budget done while passing just one of the 12 annual spending bills that fund government agencies.

"No one should have to worry about getting an appropriation of additional funding to fight fires in the driest conditions in 500 years," Feinstein said.

We'll get the appropriations bills through in a timely fashion and use the month of September and maybe a little bit of October to negotiate with the White House.' "Then what happens is that the press of other business slows things down and divisions within the Republican Party slow things down".

Since 1990, the total amount Congress could allocate for discretionary programs -- those that get annual appropriations -- has been fixed by law, and every tax cut and increase in spending on entitlements like Social Security and Medicare had to be offset by other tax increases or spending cuts.