Sentence examples for war appropriation from inspiring English sources

When a friend called Kerry's vote against the eighty-seven-billion-dollar war appropriation a "protest vote," Frosheiser said, "Kind of a serious issue to be casting protest votes on".

This is the question that House Appropriations chair David Obey put on the table when he said he would sit on the war appropriation until the White House acted on House Democratic demands to unlock federal money to aid the states in averting a wave of layoffs of teachers and other public employees.

It finally appeared in a Dow Jones news release: "War appropriations nearing quarter trillion-dollar mark".

Perhaps more telling than either these polls or the defection of liberal House Democrats from last week's war appropriations bill are the signs of wobbling conservative support.

It has failed to do so twice, once when a filibuster killed a bill it was attached to in June and again in late July when the Senate voted to strip it, along with other domestic programs, from an Afghanistan war appropriations measure.

IPC succeeded in pushing Congress to reduce war appropriations.

Last time we wrote, a $9 billion package was being slipped into an "emergency" war appropriations bill.

But with the upcoming authorization and war appropriations, our civic narrative, deprived of memory, requires no consequence, only the plodding towards more war.

The Pentagon has received an additional $326 billion to $652 billion beyond what can be attributed to the war appropriations, the study found.

In 1846, the Wilmot Proviso was introduced to a war appropriations bill to ban slavery in all territories acquired in the Mexican American War; the Proviso repeatedly passed the House, but not the Senate.

During the debate on Howe's war spending estimates in 1945 (which totalled $1.365 billion), Howe answered an Opposition question on whether such a large sum could be reduced: "I dare say my honourable friend could cut a million dollars from that amount, but a million dollars from the War Appropriations Bill would not be a very important matter".