The Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter recently to all members of the U.S. Senate appropriations committees asking them to strike anti-environmental climate change riders from the budget appropriations bills.
What we have said is that we feel confident, given the nature and the limitations on the mission, that it can be paid for within existing budget appropriations because there are funds that exist for that purpose.
The bill is expected to be introduced this year into the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, which next meets on Thursday.
The National Mall, the Statue of Liberty and Yellowstone National Park will be affected, according to John Garder, budget and appropriations legislative representative for the National Parks Conservation Association.
So a budget and appropriations process that -- the honest budgeting and appropriations process that the President has talked about falls somewhat victim to the fact that this is the way that wars have been funded previously.
What may be left by the wayside until after the election - a budget blueprint, appropriations to run the government, immigration reform and border security, control of lobbyists, a minimum wage increase and health for senior citizens who missed a deadline for choosing a Medicare prescription plan.
"It concerns me that some executive branch officials have recently been making suggestions that congressional initiatives and specific recommendations for funding and appropriations bills are unwarranted intrusions in the budget process, " said House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Jerry Lewis, R-California.
Remember, the military cuts we are talking about come out of the regular Pentagon budget, not the war appropriations sustaining overseas operations.
Some - including the bipartisan leadership of the House Appropriations Committee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan - have lately expressed concern about the fees the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) would be able to charge and retain to fund its operations.
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The House and Senate budget committees set spending targets and instructed appropriations committees to work within those limits.
The GOP House should also pass appropriations bills implementing the Ryan budget.
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But administration officials insist they are philosophically opposed to the idea of routine supplemental appropriations beyond the Pentagon's regular budget, and that, in the future, the Pentagon should be adequately funded so it does not have to rely on emergency appropriations.
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The Democrats vowed to try again, and the farm aid issue will be one of dozens fiercely debated as Congress acts on the various government appropriations bills - meaning the meat of the budget - when it returns in September.
And I have been -- (applause.) I've been honored to have you by my side when I signed advance appropriations to protect veterans' health care from the budget battles in Washington, -- (applause) -- when I signed legislation to give new support to veterans and their caregivers, and, most recently, when I proposed new initiatives to make sure the private sector is hiring our talented veterans.
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They need to get that budget resolution done so they can do their normal spending process, the appropriations bills they would pass between now and October.
They just assume at that point, I guess, that it won't be costing us any money or we'll be out of there, or we'll, I guess, go back to supplemental appropriations that they don't ask for in the projected budget.
Holder goes into details about how the Justice Department is working on meeting the mass budget cuts in a letter to Senator Barbara Mulkuski (Chairwoman of Committee on Appropriations).
Other unknowns are long-range defense appropriations for after FY2009, which are unlikely to be included in the budget, and how the president will address the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
Each organization was directed to submit budget requests for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2012 that are five percent and ten percent below their appropriations for the current year.
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