Sentences with phrase «annual appropriations bills»

Such bills have become a regular feature of government as Congress has had difficulty completing the regular annual appropriations bills in a timely way.

The legislation contains full funding for fiscal year 2015 for 11 of the 12 regular annual Appropriations bills, with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The House passed a «minibus» spending bill Thursday covering four of the 12 annual appropriations bills for defense, military construction and veterans» benefits, energy, and the legislative branch.

The bill includes full Appropriations legislation and funding for the remaining 11 annual Appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2017.

To continue to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school meals and other federal child nutrition programs, this provision will need to appear in subsequent annual appropriations bills, or it will need to be included in the five - year child nutrition reauthorization bill in 2015.

But he predicts «it will be a lightning rod» for criticism in the Senate, where 60 votes are typically needed to advance annual appropriations bills.

The spending bill combines six of the 12 annual appropriation bills for the 2010 budget year that began Oct. 1.

The bill includes full Appropriations legislation and funding for 11 of the 12 annual Appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2015.

A permanent funding stream would be subject to filibuster in the U.S. Senate in a way that an annual appropriation bill would not be.

Discretionary spending requires an annual appropriation bill, which is a piece of legislation.

That funding could be folded into the annual appropriations bill to fund the National Institutes of Health or be part of several measures aimed at speeding medical innovation that Congress may take up after the election.

The minibus moniker is a play on the «omnibus» tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.

Late last year, lawmakers approved 11 of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the federal government.

For the last two decades, Congress has attached to the annual appropriations bill that funds the CDC, language barring the agency responsible for safeguarding public health from using its funding «to advocate or promote gun control.»

House Committee Approves Nearly 20 Percent Cut to Education Funding: House Republicans have assigned overall funding amounts to the annual appropriations bills that fund domestic spending and foreign aid for the upcoming fiscal year at extremely low levels not seen since 2004.

And it is cleaner when it comes to funding, as we just watch federal funding streams and an annual appropriations bill that has stayed relatively level - funded for much of the past few years.

Following adoption of the budget resolution, Congress considers the annual appropriations bills that are needed to fund discretionary programs in the coming fiscal year and legislation to enact changes to mandatory spending or revenue levels as specified in the budget resolution.

The congressional drilling moratorium, which dates to the early 1980s, has been included in the annual appropriations bills that fund federal agencies, with this year's ban set to expire Tuesday.