Appropriations Quotes

This is a very strange appropriations year. We are dealing with a surplus and budget cuts. The question is who is gong to take the pain for spending cuts?

There`s a lot of advantages to working in the private sector. We can move quickly. We don`t have to wait for laws to be passed or appropriations to be passed, and this is an opportunity that came on the market and we acted quickly to preserve this piece of property.

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

The appropriations bill would provide a little over a quarter of the funding that was promised. Our bigger concern is that the program is not mandatory and it does not guarantee annual appropriations, as CARA would have.

First and foremost, he`s just one heck of a nice guy, ... Secondly, he`s just pretty sharp. A lot of people have stereotypes about football players. Mike Bass is a very intelligent man. He did an outstanding job as appropriations director. Probably to this day, he has a better grasp of the state budget process than most people who work in Springfield.

The state has deposited its offer into the account at the courts. Basically, at this point, it`s going through the appropriations process.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call,

Since funding this service is included as line items in both the water and sewer and engineering divisions` annual budgets, only the first year of the contract is funded, ... It is noted within the contract itself that fiscal years 2007 and 2008 are subject to appropriations. The fiscal year 2006 amount is not to exceed $33,940 in the engineering division, the amount of that appropriation, and the same amount in the water and sewer division. The three year total is not to exceed $240,480.

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.