spending bill

By the end of the year, a spending bill is worked out.

But the spending bill has still not passed the Senate.

Next week, the Senate is expected to consider its own spending bill.

And it is likely, but not certain, that the spending bill will be passed.

They face a spending bill and energy legislation left over from last year.

The House has passed 12 of the 13 spending bills.

It now goes to the House, which has not brought military spending bills to the floor this year.

Similar language was included in spending bills for 2003 and 2004.

No tax measure can be attached to a spending bill.

The money would need approval in a separate spending bill.

By then, 13 different spending bills must be signed into law to keep the Government running.

The prohibition had been included in the spending bill every year since 1983.

Once it passes, the spending bill can then be sent to the president.

But a resolution of the spending bills seems far off.

Last week the House voted on three more spending bills.

Military spending bills were the only such measures to pass last year.

In that time you've not vetoed a single spending bill.

A President must now accept or reject the spending bill as a whole.

These had not been financed in the earlier spending bills.

All spending bills are supposed to be signed by then.

The measure was attached to the spending bill passed last week.

Congress has completed work on only four of its 13 spending bills.

So the only way policy could be set was to wrap them into the giant spending bill.

The first of the spending bills are expected to reach the Senate floor next week.

In some cases, the Republicans have not been able to agree among themselves on the spending bills.