Appropriation Process Quotes

While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.

If Congress can't get a budget passed when they're supposed to, it's just common sense they shouldn't get paid.

We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

The best legislator is the one who votes for all appropriations and against all taxes.