Sentence examples for interim bill from inspiring English sources

The interim bill was attached to a $4.7 billion spending measure covering the operations of Congress, a measure that drew criticism for being too generous with congressional projects and salaries when many Americans are suffering financially.

Senate Democrats said they were willing to let the interim bill pass without debate but promised a fight over more than $9 billion in spending reductions that Senate Republican leaders have accepted in talks with the House and White House.

He said he would sign an interim bill only if one were needed to get the paperwork together on a broader agreement and pass it through both houses.

He convened a meeting at the White House with the chief congressional antagonists, rejected a Republican proposal for an interim bill with sharp cuts and then announced Boehner and Reid would meet later in the day.

A27 Clinton Balks at Interim Bills President Clinton said he would no longer sign stopgap spending measures and sought to inject a sense of urgency into slow-moving Congressional deliberations over bills to keep the government running.

Congressional officials said the budget talks were set back significantly in a meeting Tuesday when the participants feuded over what legislation should serve as the benchmark for the talks — the House-passed spending measure with $61 billion in cuts for this year or an interim budget bill approved by Congress in early March that maintained financing for most programs at their current levels.

The interim spending bill was needed since the current fiscal year ended at midnight.

The interim spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, was needed since the current fiscal year was to expire at midnight.

"Republican staff told Senator Reid staff that we will move a short term C.R. that cuts spending," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Speaker John A. Boehner, referring to a continuing resolution, the Congressional term for the interim spending bill.

In the interim, the bill would allow above-ground storage of nuclear waste in a central location, a temporary resolution to a problem that has arisen as reactors retire and the waste is orphaned.

The government is operating under an interim spending bill that expires on Dec. 14, leaving lawmakers two weeks after they return next month to strike a deal with the White House or extend the stopgap financing.