This practice constrains the President either to suffer measures to become laws which he does not approve or to incur the risk of stopping the wheels of the Government by vetoing an appropriation bill.
In former times it was believed to be the true character of an appropriation bill simply to carry into effect existing laws and the established policy of the country.
No alternative is thus left to the President but either to approve measures without examination or by vetoing an appropriation bill seriously to embarrass the operations of the Government.
It was better to bring this matter forward in an appropriation bill, than that there should be no check at all.
It is objected to this bill, that it is both a revenue and an appropriation bill?
No instance has occurred since the establishment of the Government in which the Executive, though a component part of the legislative power, has interposed an objection to an appropriation bill on the sole ground of its extravagance.
An appropriation bill is like a “through train,” and while its special office is to appropriate money, yet it may carry anything required by the public good.
Failing to obtain an opportunity for this bill in the Senate, Mr. Sumner determined to move it on an appropriation bill.
Owing to the pendency of an Appropriation Bill, as unfinished business, on this day, it lost its place.
In moving it now on an appropriation bill, I follow approved precedents.
He observed, that if the House was to investigate, in the discussion of an appropriation bill, the amount of salaries and the legal establishments of Government, the public service would be dangerously destroyed.
The Governor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items of an appropriation bill, but the veto shall not affect the item or items to which he does not object.
He may also veto any particular item of an appropriation bill, but this item may also be passed over his veto by a two-thirds vote of both houses.
Others do not want either silver or gold, but want numbers, numerals, the fruit of the printing-press, to be fixed every year by Congress as we do an appropriation bill.
These two speeches are substituted for the Garfield-Blackburn discussion over a "rider" to an appropriation bill designed to forbid federal control of elections within the States.
It is not worth while to attempt the repeal except upon an appropriation bill.
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