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3 unusual facts about Appropriations Committee


Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

According to the Appropriations Committee, the Act provides funding for 397 military construction projects contained in the budget request.

Kevin Grantham

He currently serves on the Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Committee; the Appropriations Committee; the Legislative Council; and the State, Veteran, & Military Affairs Committee.

Sidney R. Yates

Yates served on the Appropriations Committee throughout his career and chaired the Interior Subcommittee from 1975 to 1995.


United States congressional subcommittee

Subcommittee leaders selected for the Appropriations Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, and Ways and Means Committee require Democratic Steering and Policy Committee approval.

William P. Fessenden

He also served as a chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds during the 40th Congress, the Appropriations Committee during the 41st Congress and the U.S. Senate Committee on the Library, also during the 41st Congress.


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Carl Isett

Isett serves on the House Appropriations Committee and chairs Budget Oversight for the Insurance Committee, headed by his Republican colleague John T. Smithee of Amarillo.

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.

Donald H. Magnuson

During his time in Congress he served on the Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Department of State, Justice and Judiciary, and the Department of the Interior.

Jack K. McFall

McFall worked on the staff of the Appropriations Committee until World War II when he joined the United States Navy, serving as a Commander.

John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy

The Institute is named after New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Watson, the first African American to serve as the state's Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Madden Dam

The dam and the reservoir behind it were both named for U.S. Congressman Martin B. Madden of Illinois, who was a chairman of the House appropriations committee during the period while the U.S. was constructing the Panama Canal.

Myra Crownover

During the Eighty-second Texas Legislature, Crownover served on the Appropriations Committee of the Texas House of Representatives.

Pete Perry

Perry, Barrows, with Mike Ferner, a member of Veterans for Peace, and Malachy Kilbride interrupted the US House Appropriations Committee in March 2006 that was in the process of voting on $67,000,000,000 in military funding for the US war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

United States congressional subcommittee

Republican Conference rules changes for the 108th Congress required subcommittee chairs of the Appropriations Committee to receive full conference approval.