Senate Targets Supplementals

‘Emergency’ Bills Draw Scrutiny

• By John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• April 17, 2006, Midnight

Senate appropriators have inserted language into the fiscal 2006 supplemental spending bill chastising the Bush administration for using the now twice-yearly “emergency war” supplementals as a shadow appropriations and policy process, warning the Senate will not consider future requests that do not include a full budget justification to appropriators.