"panel" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Autocratic chairmen like Robert Sikes, who used his position on the military appropriations panel to increase the value of his stock market holdings, were forced to step aside.
- Its Republican-controlled appropriations panel voted to distribute $700 million to New York, Washington and other densely populated, vulnerable localities across the nation.
- Mr. Taylor was chairman of the appropriations panel on the interior and environment, making him a spending "cardinal" in the House.
- Mr. Spratt said he believed that the policy panels tended to give such requests a "closer scrub" than the appropriations panels.
- In the Senate, where support for the weapons initiative has been stronger, an appropriations panel has already approved all of the research money.
- The chairman of the appropriations panel, Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, urged his Democratic colleagues not to drag the defense measure into the intelligence controversy.
- "I'm not interested in turf," insisted Senator Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican who is chairman of the appropriations panel.
- But as a matter of political philosophy, rightward-leaning Republicans fault the appropriations panel on two counts.
- The appropriations panel boasts of canceling 60 agencies or programs so far, with many more to come, though some of its claims, like the closing of a House parking lot, seem a bit strained.
- If the negotiations produce a plan requiring deeper cuts in domestic programs than those Congress has envisioned in its own budget plan, the appropriations panels may have to scale back housing funding.
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