Sentences with phrase «on appropriations bills»

The full House and Senate then debate and vote on the appropriations bills from each of the 12 subcommittees.

Given the weighty interests at stake in this encounter between science and ethics, relying on an increasingly Delphic, decade - old single paragraph rider on an appropriations bill hardly seems adequate.

Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills — especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both chambers.

The new budget year began Oct. 1 without agreement on appropriations bills.

We are still on the appropriation bill, we have not finished it, Service chiefs were appointed without the approval of the Senate.

«It is the first time I can recall in the time that I've been here our actually cutting spending on an appropriation bill,» Mr. McConnell said.

Traditionally (but not necessarily) the House acts first on appropriations bills and, indeed, the Senate Appropriations Committee is still in the hearing phase.

The General Secretary of the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC); Johnson Aseidu Nketia has said the move by the minority in parliament to abstain from voting on the appropriation bill was in the right direction.

Last week, in an interview with Politico, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) outlined his plan to shut down President Obama's legislative agenda by placing riders on appropriations bills.

Asked to explain his vote on the appropriations bill, Assemblyman José Rivera rose and began a tirade that ended only when his microphone was cut off.

Rep. Hal Rogers (R - Kentucky), the incoming chair of the House Appropriations committee, said he «would be open to use riders on appropriations bills to block EPA's climate change regulations next year,» according to ClimateWire (by subscription).

The full House of Representatives has not yet voted on the appropriations bill, which would also need to be approved by the Senate.