While Medicaid cuts extend well beyond 2026, the proposed $45 billion opioid fund is just a one-time appropriation.
But now the fund is empty, and he's not sure his colleagues in the Legislature will be eager to make a one-time appropriation to fill it back up.
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"Every time an appropriations bill comes up, just about, we have 100 amendments," Mr. Lott said.
Revenues fall under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and are considered separately and possibly even at a different time from appropriations.
Pennington assigned Sherman to serve as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, where he spent much of his time on appropriations bills, while cooperating with his colleague Justin Smith Morrill on the passage of what became known as the Morrill Tariff.
"From threats of government shutdown each time an appropriations bill was about to lapse, to the artificial debt ceiling crisis of 2011 that required the Budget Control Act, to the year-end fiscal cliff brinksmanship -- Republicans have time and again pulled budget negotiations out of the Budget Committees in ways that rattled the markets, hurt the economy, and increased uncertainty".
The bill, trimmed for lean times, cuts appropriations to $130 million, but toughens enforcement measures and modestly increases victim assistance to $25.5 million.
The two subsequent votes pertained specifically to the Treasury appropriations bill, and on those Mr. Lazio voted yes each time, and the appropriation was approved.
10: At appropriations time, lobbyists work like ninjas, doing their work under cover of darkness.
"At appropriations time, lobbyists work like ninjas, doing their work under cover of darkness.
