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appropriation bill

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Noun1.appropriation billappropriation bill - a legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose
line item - an item in an appropriation bill; "Some governors can veto line items in their state budgets"
bill, measure - a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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And they will be able to do that later this spring, when Congress considers supplemental appropriations bills for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Appropriation Bill.
The First Step; Live from the House Iraq debate by Continetti, Matthew / The Weekly Standard
He bought land in Illinois three years ago, inserted a $207 million appropriation bill during a closed-door congressional budget conference to build a freeway adjacent to his new land, then gleefully sold it just five months later for $2 million.
PUBLIC FORUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Under pressure from the Bush administration, Congress eliminated from the latest supplementary military appropriation bill a provision banning permanent U.
Occupation: the missing word by Marshall, Rachelle / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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