Holder goes into details about how the Justice Department is working on meeting the mass budget cuts in a letter to Senator Barbara Mulkuski (Chairwoman of Committee on Appropriations).
The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.
Earlier this week, Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, David Obey, said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.
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The House appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes FEMA, will come up in the Senate Appropriations Committee on September 6, according to the Senate aide.
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As a general rule, such a powerful political coalition is able to work its will in the smoke-filled room of a House-Senate conference committee on the foreign operations appropriations bill.
Mr Craddick says that he will stick by the same polite Texan custom in the House, though he has blocked an effort by the Democrats to appoint people to the crucial appropriations committee on the basis of seniority.
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David Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, says lawmakers are getting nothing of the sort.
House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee have been working for weeks to move a ton of money to the devastated Northeast.
There were especially big projects for Alaska and South Carolina, the home states of the key Republican and Democratic Senators on the Appropriations Committee.
Stevens served in the Senate for 40 years, and for eight of them (1997-2005) he was the chairman or top Republican on the Appropriations Committee.
Thirty-eight Senate Republicans voted last month to give Obama significant flexibility to manage the automatic cuts, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Richard Shelby of Alabama, the party's senior member on the Appropriations Committee.
Northup, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, made a potentially serious misstep this summer.
Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee and its defense subcommittee.
Tiahrt is a senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.
Even as many Republicans attack the administration for choices such as ending White House tours or canceling early snow removal from Yellowstone National Park, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in particular fear that giving Obama greater flexibility would erode Congress' control over the federal purse, which is enshrined in the Constitution and zealously guarded.
Hobson is the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction.
In fact, an e-mail from Republican Appropriations Committee staff that circulated on the Hill earlier this month called for requests for "programmatic funding, project funding, bill or report language" to be submitted to senators by April 13 for inclusion in the fiscal year 2008 budget.
Rep. Hal Rogers, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee who sat in on his panel's Financial Service's subcommittee on Monday, made clear that he would assess the effectiveness and commitment by Werfel to uncover the source of the wrongdoing when considering IRS funding for next fiscal year.
As chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense for the House Appropriations Committee, he has done it many times.
The bill is expected to be introduced this year into the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, which next meets on Thursday.
Rogoff has served for 22 years on the staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee, including 14 years as the Democratic Staff Director of its Transportation Subcommittee.
On March 15, 2005, David Obey, then the ranking Democrat on the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee, announced that he was putting aside an amendment that he had intended to offer that day, and that would have cut off all funding for national-intelligence programs unless the President agreed to keep Congress fully informed about clandestine military activities undertaken in the war on terror.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin said on Tuesday night he's already instructed his staff to start drafting a second stimulus proposal.
During his time in the Senate, he has been chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, and is the senior Republican on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
The problem is an amendment that Mr Byrd tacked on to this year's agriculture-appropriations bill in the committee to thrash out differences between the House and Senate.
Mr. Kyl needs assurances that those pledges will survive the upheavals on Capitol Hill, and he doesn't even know which Republican will lead the House Appropriations Committee next year, Mr. Patmintra said.
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Last Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that Arab support for Israel's bid to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is contingent on its agreeing to support the rapid establishment of a Palestinian state.
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