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unusual facts about Appropriation Bill


Dick Ackerman

During his tenure in the Assembly, Ackerman served as Assistant Republican Leader, Republican Caucus Whip, Vice Chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, Vice Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, a member of Appropriations Committee, and a member of the Legislative Ethics Committee.


Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014

The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 refers to appropriations bills introduced during the 113th United States Congress.

Nihal Sri Ameresekere

Ameresekere once challenged the Sri Lankan Government's Appropriation Bill in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and raised several cogent issues on the Government’s Fiscal transparency and accountability to the public.

Nina Gershon

Judge Gerson found that the law, passed as part of an Appropriation bill, was an unconstitutional Bill of attainder.

United States congressional subcommittee

New subcommittees on Homeland Security were created in 2003 to handle funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and underwent a joint reorganization during the 110th Congress to better coordinate annual appropriations between the House and Senate.


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Appalachian Volunteers

Congressional leaders were becoming concerned by the controversies generated by OEO’s community action programs across the country, and in 1967 Oregon Representative Edith Green authored an amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act, attached to an appropriation bill, which assured that local political officials would have more influence on CAAs.

Henry L. Dawes

The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Act, but to attempt to persuade the tribes excluded under the Act to agree to the allotment plan.

Orville H. Platt

On March 1, 1901, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Army Appropriation bill with the Platt Amendment as a rider which governed U.S. relations with Cuba from 1901 to 1934, and was named for Sen. Platt.