#appropriation

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. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#been #bills #budgets #families #federal

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#appropriations #committee #earmark #filled #forms

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#budget #congress #death #embrace #forcibly

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

— John Ensign

#committee #control #out #senate #spending

I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12. ↗

— Joe Heck

#appropriations #committee #cut #cuts #did

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#appropriations #bill #congress #decade #democrats

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut. ↗

— David Obey

#appropriations #bill #cut #education #health

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#art