Sentences with phrase «spending bill congress»

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Among the dozens of protest causes were transportation costs; Native Indian rights; government spending on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; corruption in state and local governments; and a bill in the Brazilian congress that would authorize psychologists to try and «cure» homosexuals.

The state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

But the state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.