3 THEY COST £770BN The official bill is £770bn.
Eventually, Graham and Lieberman's offices devised a ruse: they would adopt a crucial part of the Cantwell-Collins bill on market regulation in the official bill.
Applicants had to submit a personal essay detailing their career and financial need as well as an official bill for the debt they owe.
The most spirited anti-Soviet French protest… The official bills for the students' Latin Quarter revolution, legally calculated as having lasted from May 6 to June 15, have been totted.
That is likely to remain in the official bill, along with limits on gun trafficking, although even the background-checks provision is having trouble drawing sufficient Republican support.
At the same time, Senator Dean G. Skelos was trying to speak from the Senate floor, complaining that the Senate's staff would not provide them with the bill "jackets" — the official bills used to conduct Senate business.
The official bill for this six-yearly academic Battle Royale is around £47m spent within universities and a further £12m in Hefce's administrative costs – most of it taxpayers' money.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders in Congress folded their tents on comprehensive gun control fast — dropping a ban on assault weapons and limits on the size of magazines as they watered down the "official" bill that will hit the Senate floor.
House Republican leaders have reserved the symbolic H.R.1 — the first official bill of the 113th Congress — for a comprehensive tax reform plan, but they have privately expressed concern that Mr. Camp will move forward with a contentious measure, then leave House members politically exposed when the Senate fails to follow.
To ensure authenticity, buyers must also secure an official bill of sale.
To briefly oversimplify his intricate web of deception, clients would hire Abramoff for handsome fees to lobby on their behalf and push or protect special interests, typically by working with Congressional staffers to shape, trim, bend, and massage the language contained in official bills of law too dense for any normal human to read.
