"bill" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Pataki said the government could be kept running with stopgap bills, though schools would have a harder time predicting aid.
- While the stopgap bills are keeping the Government operating, they generally reduced spending at agencies, although the details of how the cuts are apportioned are difficult to calculate.
- But with a vote scheduled next week on an impeachment inquiry, they may have to buy more time with another stopgap bill.
- Speaker Newt Gingrich held out the possibility that Congress may seek a series of stopgap bills, known as continuing resolutions.
- The current stopgap bill expires next Tuesday.
- Bush later vetoes the stopgap bill that was approved the previous night.
- The earlier stopgap bill, which was passed in September and expired at midnight, allows for no more than a 10 percent cut in spending.
- But the White House said President Bush, in an attempt to force Congress to pass a budget, would not sign the stopgap bill.
- Such stopgap bills are known as continuing resolutions because they continue financing Government operations until a regular appropriation bill containing funds for an agency or program can be passed.
- Congress could pass a stopgap bill to continue spending at current levels under existing rules for a few months or for a year.
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