When appropriators met recently with Mr. Bush and the White House budget director, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., they were told that the money already allotted had not yet been spent and that if there was a proven need for more within the fiscal year that ends on Sept. 30, the administration would request a supplemental appropriation then.
We are not planning to request a supplemental at this time," Office of Management and Budget spokesman Kenneth Baer said Monday.
This practice of requesting a supplemental appropriation came after Congress generally refused to create a separate military contingency fund, fearing that establishing such a discretionary pot of money would erode Congress's power of the purse.
A Florida judge ruled this was the secretary's obligation, provided she did not arbitrarily turn down a counties' request for a supplemental, belated manual recount.
"There is almost a universal belief," Mr. Schumer said in an interview, "that the administration will come back early next year with a request for a supplemental spending package that includes many of these same items.
Beyond that, they are hoping their request for a supplemental grant-in-aid appropriation of $350,000 for Rutgers Agricultural Experimentt Station, which Haskin falls under, receives approval when it is put before the State Assembly.
Referring to Bush's request for a supplemental appropriation to finance ongoing operations in Iraq, she said recently, "For me, the eighty-seven bislionotollars is not just a bill for Iraq it's a bill for failed leadership".
Representative David R. Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said House Democrats intended to add more than $4 billion for new equipment to the Obama administration's request for a supplemental war-financing bill but would not provide $50 million the administration sought to pay for the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison.
"There is no request for a supplemental.
The judge also granted a prosecutor's request for a supplemental probation report on Brown's recent arrest in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — Citing hunger riots in developing countries and soaring grain prices around the world, Senate Democrats called on Monday for a swift increase of $200 million in foreign food aid, on top of an additional $350 million that President Bush has requested in a supplemental spending measure.
