Not just wait on the normal process, or count on something as pedestrian as actual hearings or discussion, but to make a summary judgement and latch it on to an appropriations bill," Price said.
Legislators on an appropriations subcommittee recently recommended restoring the entire $1.4 million that was cut.
Murdoch hoped that the two-year waiver on cross-ownership agreed with the FCC might become permanent, but in 1987 Senator Edward Kennedy slipped a late-night amendment on an appropriations bill resolution that had the effect of killing the deal.
The House is expected to vote today on an appropriations bill with a provision that would make it practically impossible for the Justice Department to finance its lawsuit against the industry.
The next day, when the cloud moved and I completed my journey, I learned that, after a similar belch of ash choked out all four engines of a K.L.M. flight into Anchorage in 1989, Ted Stevens finagled an earmark on an appropriations bill to secure federal funds for the Alaska Volcano Observatory, whose missions included the monitoring of volcanic activity and its attendant hazards.
They were shocked to learn that negotiations on an appropriations bill in the Senate have led to riders which currently include an end to needle exchange funding on the federal level.
As Politics Daily's Matt Lewis recently noted, "Once thought of as a powerful committee for members wanting to 'bring home the bacon,' in today's political environment sitting on an appropriations panel seems to be an albatross".
So the fact that it's at the Fed -- access to Fed monies -- in order to finance itself is far stronger than any other place it could possibly be, depending on an appropriations process or assessment process".
Addressing concerns about our government is critical to maintaining the republic, but I'm bombarded not by criticism, but over-the-top generalizations: "The government cannot agree on an appropriations bill, clear evidence that we've never been this dysfunctional before".
