appropriations

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The governor visited Washington in December to meet with lawmakers, including three who serve on the Senate and House appropriations committees, to push for the funding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

“There’s a price to be paid for people who may be thinking about different issues,” Farmer said, “but maybe you’ve got an appropriations request in and you don’t want to risk burning that bridge.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

And there was an incident this week while McConnell was chairing his defense appropriations subcommittee hearing.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

It operates outside the normal appropriations process on a framework built for a different world.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He was chair of the appropriations committee in the Utah House of Representatives, where he’d been first elected in 2000.

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