Sentence examples for spending item from inspiring English sources

Debt service has overtaken education as the biggest spending item.

One reason is, you know the third-biggest spending item in our budget is interest on the national debt.

His big-ticket spending item, at more than $100 billion a year, is his plan for universal health care coverage.

It would also require that lawmakers certify that they are not adding a spending item intended only to provide a "pecuniary" benefit to themselves or their family.

Under his proposal, the president could not nix part of a spending bill; he could, however, temporarily freeze a spending item and request that Congress rescind it.

A further spending item of £63m to bring back some abolished cycling initiatives appeared to be based merely on a Labour commitment to "take steps to promote cycling by making it safer and more accessible".

The budget tool contained both revenue and spending items.

The only major new spending items in the C.B.O.

Driving home his point, Mr. Hoyer called the spending items not earmarks but "Congressional initiatives".

Then Mr. Pataki vetoed more than 1,000 spending items, most of them Democrats' projects.

Mr. Pataki, not tied to the deal, vetoed 1,300 spending items worth $1.6 billion.