Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor said Floridians could have used the appropriation to create jobs.
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The House Republicans are using a lot of the appropriation bills to cut back on spending in some of the areas that constitute what the administration would consider its achievements to date.
We believe that a significant portion of the funding could be available if the appropriation Conferees were to moderate the high level of earmarks within the NASA budget.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
Some Republican legislators, seeking to inject domestic ethics into international affairs, had sought to bar the appropriation because of the Clinton administration's unwillingness to attach an anti-abortion rider.
Then it has to be embodied in specific appropriation bills and tax bills this year and in years to come.
And I ask for the authority, used responsibly by 43 Governors, to veto individual items in appropriation bills.
The discretionary caps remain tight and the Appropriation Committees allocations make it a challenge to fund many important priorities.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
State debt service will continue to be paid under an ongoing appropriation.
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And ironically, the initial hit will result from the inability of Congress to agree on a fiscal 2013 defense appropriation, rather than the sequestration mechanism everybody in D.
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The administration still treats a five-year war as an unforeseen contingency to be paid for by an extra, emergency appropriation outside its regular budget request.
But that has not been determined yet, but I think, in short hand, what I'm trying to say is that we can't do two appropriation bills in one year.
"I believe this issue is more important than any appropriation, or any new set of regulations, for it goes to the heart of who we are as a people and what we are as a nation, " he said.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United Space Alliance, said "it's too early to tell what, if any, impact" the congressional appropriation may have on workforce levels in the months ahead.
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He said the Postal Service began to question whether it even technically fell under Congress's appropriation bill, because the service is an independent agency that doesn't receive an annual taxpayer subsidy, but instead is reimbursed by Congress for certain relatively small areas, including delivering mail to the blind and overseas voters.
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