Another method is to "transfer" funds from one appropriation item to another one, which can be a big change that puts a whole program out of business.
"No one on the appropriations committee wants to see less funding for science," says a spokesperson for the Senate Appropriations committee.
Over the past few days we've learned that PMA's clients received nearly $300 million worth of earmarks in one defense appropriations bill.
Where, oh where, have responsible Democrats and Republicans been with a standalone, one paragraph appropriations bill that would fund the cost sharing reduction payments for the current fiscal year?
Congress continued the growing tradition of legislating-via-continuing resolution last week, failing for the seventh straight year to send even one regular appropriations bill to the president's desk.
There's much ado about the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 this week, with a multinational summit in Washington, D.C. on human gene editing, plus the clock ticking down on congressional appropriations bills, one of which would prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from spending money to evaluate research on or conduct clinical trials of gene editing in human embryos.
Hence we, like t e Special Master, treat the case as one involving appropriation rights not only in Colorado and Wyoming but in Nebraska as well.
But follow-up legislation is usually limited to one-year appropriations bills rather than more difficult measure to deal with the government's long-term fiscal challenges, which are fueled by spiraling healthcare costs and the retirement of the baby boom generation.
By combining all defense spending into one (larger) appropriation each year, the batter has just one swing — miss the first time, that's it.
Such a spectacular figure is already a sure candidate for uncomplicated and one-dimensional appropriations, especially given the pressures of "watered-down" labeling demanded by mass culture marketing, not to say marketers.
