Sentence examples for operations appropriation from inspiring English sources

As the U.S. Congress intensifies its debate on long-term deficit reduction and the FY 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriation Bill, let us all hope that the crisp breezes of autumn, the first falling leaves, and the signs of optimism emerging from FedEx Field don't encourage our lawmakers to once again make international family planning a political football.

The House of Representatives will consider funding for international tuberculosis programs as part of the foreign operations appropriations bill this week.

Senate Republicans this week blocked the foreign operations appropriations bill for 2002 in an effort to force the Democrats to move quickly on some of the nominations.

Earnest's comments contradict the statements of David Carle, a spokesman for senator Patrick Leahy, who said on Monday that the State Department and the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee had been told the "transfer of military aid was stopped".

Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee, said the revelations were troubling.

In the Fiscal 2010 State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, the Obama administration is asking for $96.8 million in funding for the program, which, since 2005, has trained more than 77,000 from about two dozen African nations.

Congress has again failed to pay for government operations through the appropriations process, and is headed back toward a short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resolution.

The money, as Travis Sharp, research associate at the Center for New American Security noted, would be there to keep operations going and the appropriations committee could pass a bill continuing that funding.

Another reminder of how badly Mr. Kerry needed a break was provided by the Bush campaign, which released a commercial skewering him for saying Tuesday that he had voted both for and against the $87 billion appropriation for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A member of the Committee on Military Affairs, he eventually became the ranking Democrat on the committee and the ranking member of the subcommittee that controlled appropriations for U.S. operations during World War I.

The Corporation for National and Community Service, which includes AmeriCorps, SeniorCorps, FEMACorps and other programs, said that approximately 95percentt of staff would be furloughed, according to its "Plan for Agency Operations in the Absence of Appropriations".