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The work of the young astronomers throughout the world will be watched carefully and large appropriations made to them if it appears that they can spend them to advantage.
Congress voted appropriations amounting to $9,000 for these experiments, and Dyrenforth was appointed a ôspecial agentö of the Department of Agriculture to direct them.
Colleges in the home states of powerful Appropriations Committee senators benefit from a disproportionate share of the pork.
Today's NYT runs a correction saying that an August 24 story about money added by Congress to appropriations bills favoring specific universities "referred incompletely to the source of the $797 million figure" which is this year's total for such funds.
The WP goes bottom front with a dispatch about how the batch of appropriations bills currently on Congress' plate are salted with discreet little money plums for business: for auto companies, defense contractors, utilities, agribusiness, shipbuilders, chemical companies, and even an ammunition manufacturer.
finances, but the Post , LAT , and Wall Street Journal are optimistic that a budget deal is around the corner (the Journal says the GOP will try to wrap all remaining appropriations into a $390 billion package to be voted on as early as next week).
The Wall Street Journal notes high up that spending will increase by tens of billions of dollars from last year and will break appropriations caps set by the 1997 balanced budged agreement.
The Texas governor can veto bills and make line-item vetoes on appropriations bills.
Congress and the president indulged in a round of mutual self-congratulation over their agreement on an appropriations package for the new fiscal year.
Just one small detail that might have given Dole and his illustrious advisers a moment's pause: The appropriations measures, while restrained by recent standards, nonetheless weigh in at probably $16 billion over the target the GOP Congress set for domestic discretionary spending only a year ago.
No doubt--as former Congressional Budget Office Director Bob Reischauer points out--with all the election-year pressure on Republicans to show they really aren't so bad and the temptation for Clinton to show his newfound muscle, the final appropriations package isn't bad.
Santorum proposed punishing Hatfield by stripping him of his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee.
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