Sentence examples for pass appropriations from inspiring English sources
Congress leaves for its summer break in August (thereafter it will do little but pass appropriations bills).
Because Democrats did not pass appropriations bills last year, the government has been operating since October with appropriations continuing at the previous fiscal year's levels.
"In essence we have one constitutional thing we need to do and that is pass appropriations bills," said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.).
But the failure to pass appropriations measures this year would prove an embarrassment for the Republican leaders of the House and Senate, who have repeatedly criticized Democrats for failing to pass spending bills last year.
The rule "diminishes the roles of the authorizing committees in the House, and will make it more difficult to pass appropriations bills in the new Congress," Comstock's spokesman, Jeff Marschner, said in a statement.
It's a bill that tells the federal government's agencies, "Keep on spending like you've been spending till we can actually come to some agreement on how much you should be spending". It's what Congress passes when they can't pass appropriations bills.
After all, failure to pass appropriation bills in 1975 didn't shut down the government (but did eventually lead to the creation of what is probably The Whitlams' best song).
"The president suggests a budget, but, under the Constitution, Congress passes appropriations bills," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn)., an influential appropriator on energy issues, said in a statement.
He made no mention of resuming the annual must-pass appropriations bills that fund the government.
"We believe it would be inappropriate to insist on the inclusion of such funding in a must-pass appropriations bill," Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y). and four Democratic colleagues wrote of the wall in a recent letter to the Senate's Republican leadership.
Passing appropriations bills is the most basic duty of Congress, and often the most contentious.
