Sentence examples for massive appropriations from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Martinez said: "A massive appropriations bill is not the appropriate place to make foreign policy decisions.

The outlook dimmed further in recent weeks after Republican leaders shifted nearly $20 billion from the massive appropriations bill that funds NIH and a host of politically sensitive education and welfare programs to other spending measures.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). is trying to use a massive appropriations bill to loosen campaign finance rules.

The problem with today's bill is that without any public debate or congressional consideration, legislative language was slipped into a massive appropriations bill to eliminate Free Choice Vouchers.

It then passed it, 89-8, along with a massive appropriations measure that includes funding for transportation programs, the VA, housing programs and military construction.

Congress has not been eager to fund a full border wall, or to pony up the massive appropriations that would be needed to drastically increase staffing for Border Patrol and ICE.

With the intensification of the U.S. military and economic push in Colombia, we sadly can anticipate more such violence against peaceful actors in Colombia in order to make Colombian land secure for massive appropriation and exploitation.

The massive new appropriations bill unveiled Monday night includes four provisions that block funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, an anti-poverty activist group better known as ACORN.

Yet that pathetic excuse for the U.S. spending as much on its military as do the rest of the world nations combined seemed plausible to most in Congress who voted for massive military appropriations even as our government had to borrow money from the Chinese to cover our deficits.

In recent congressional history, these massive year-end appropriations bills have struggled to find even a majority of Republicans, let alone 218 GOP votes to get the bill through the House, or the 60 votes required in the Senate.

The NIH funding is part of a massive, 4000-page omnibus appropriation bill that was still being finalized by harried congressional staffers.