House appropriators received nearly 40% of these projects and almost half of the money for them.
So -- and it was -- we were told that the appropriators could work it out from there.
This is why Republican appropriators often side with Democrats to defend earmarks and other types of wasteful spending.
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So we are -- the House and Senate appropriators are the ones who are actually constructing the pieces.
By the time the Army realized its next-generation jeep was in trouble, congressional appropriators were already moving to cut funding.
Performance at the company has been steady, but holding, in recent years as congressional appropriators skipped over funding a highway-construction bill.
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The appropriators proposed to reduce funding for the last remnant of the Future Combat System, a next-generation fighting vehicle, by about three quarters.
House and Senate appropriators have been meeting behind the scenes to work through some of the many sticking points holding up spending bills.
Even if appropriators would accept that, which is unlikely, it is against the rules to use cuts in appropriations to offset tax cuts.
Additional cuts by appropriators, he said, would require NASA to make it clear to both lawmakers and the White House that some critical programs couldn't continue.
Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.
We are negotiating with Senator McConnell, with Senator Reid, and Leader Pelosi, as well as others -- appropriators on the CR and others that are involved in this process.
Williams said the Republicans might have received more pork because they have had more appropriators, but it is now the Democrats turn to dole out money for pet projects.
These locales have another thing in common: Tough appropriators.
The actions of Senate appropriators still must be reconciled with those of other committees, but considering how supportive they have been of military funding requests in the past, this latest setback to Army plans can only be interpreted as a sign of things to come.
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