Senate Targets Supplementals

‘Emergency’ Bills Draw Scrutiny

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff

April 17, 2006

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.

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