One such case involves Republican Jerry Lewis, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
"I hate this agreement, " said Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the Appropriations Committee.
"Revolutionizing takes some talents, many talents, " said Livingston, the 55-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
The charge of the Appropriations Committee is to enact legislation related to discretionary spending.
"I hate this agreement, " said Rep. David Obey (D-WI), who heads the Appropriations Committee.
Were there constitutional ramifications should the president pay federal obligations without approved congressional appropriations?
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Northup, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, made a potentially serious misstep this summer.
The money Congress gives each agency every year appropriations is technically not allowed to exceed those limits.
Not the Appropriations Committees says Steve Ellis of the non-partisan watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
It cannot secure the necessary long-term funding through the annual congressional pork-laden appropriations process.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. David Obey, D-Wisconsin, said the Republican tactic meant they were panicked.
However, the chamber's appropriations committee has generally adhered to a voluntary practice of identifying them.
Except for a few years, over the past decades discretionary appropriations have gone up and up.
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The conservation groups, though, are calling for an immediate halt to water appropriations on the Columbia.
All the measures could be reversed if Congress passes a military appropriations bill for 2013.
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Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee and its defense subcommittee.
And the irony is, we're prohibited, under laws and appropriations bills, from acquiring it, '' he said.
Would the agency even get this extra money in appropriations or be allowed to charge steeper fees?
Since 1989, he has been either chairman or the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
To avoid scrutiny by appropriations committees, the administration seems to have created more czars than the Romanovs.
Yes, its chairman makes periodic appearances before Congress, but the Fed is not dependent on congressional appropriations.
Meanwhile, total appropriations (less one-time spikes for disaster relief) for the SBA have fallen by roughly 38%.
The surprise announcement actually came about five minutes into Rice's opening statement to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
And sooner or later Congress passes a new appropriations bill and the stalled programs start operating again.
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He's had to work to strengthen our military at the same time that appropriations are being slashed.
They act as expensive special interest pay-offs, hidden subsidies which avoid the scrutiny usually applied to appropriations.
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As a matter of comity and tradition, these appropriations requests for the Legislative Branch are transmitted without change.
Congress simply will not vote down the defense appropriations bill just because there is a performance tax attached.
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Decisions on how to spend that money are made like all other spending decisions through the Congressional appropriations process.
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As chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense for the House Appropriations Committee, he has done it many times.
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