Sentence examples for huge appropriations from inspiring English sources

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.

The Republican Congressional majority is working its will in the fine print of the huge appropriations bills that will detail the spending next year by a government already hobbled by a record deficit.

Congressional Republicans made matters worse in 1995, when they attached a rider to a huge appropriations bill forbidding the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from spending any money to raise fuel standards.

But the filtering provision is such a small part of the huge appropriations bill for the Labor, Education and Health and Human Services Departments that its presence alone is unlikely to draw a presidential veto.

But, as you'll see if you look up the Senate roll call vote that the ad cites as evidence (and most viewers won't), the money for that museum was included in a huge appropriations bill that included funding for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development; the Judiciary; the District of Columbia; and more.

It's easier for giant military contractors to secure huge appropriations for unnecessary weapons, and to keep the war machine going.

Under current rules, unless Congress votes to block a pay raise, members are automatically given a certain percentage increase in the general Treasury budget, which is voted on as a part of a huge appropriation bill that includes financing for much of the government, the Internal Revenue Service, the Secret Service and other divisions.

But others question the epidemiologic rationale, sustainability, absorptive capacity, accountability, and opportunity costs associated with huge vertical appropriations, particularly in light of virtually flat-lined or proportionately declining appropriations in investments that equitably reflect epidemiological priorities.

The Jackpot's Consequences 3 April 2009 As science funding agencies begin to dispense the huge stimulus appropriation, opinions about its ultimate impact on early-career scientists are mixed.

And it can happen with the mayor's personal leadership rather than a huge public appropriation or bureaucracy.

Her character – Ilana Wexler – is a white Jewish girl so in awe of black culture that her appreciation frequently spills into appropriation: she wears huge gold hoop earrings that read "Latina" and punctuates her sentences with cries of "yas queen".