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‘ Xiongnu ’ was the name of a dynasty not a people, per se ; but that dynastic regime greatly impacted the peoples within its realms and left a powerful legacy in Eurasia, many subsequent groups appropriated the potent name of Xiongnu( or Hunnu) as they established their own regimes, leading to the perpetuation of so-called ‘ Hunnic ’ entities even as far as that of Attila and the Huns at the edge of Europe centuries after the demise of the Xiongnu in Inner Asia. – Genghis Khan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so. – Eric Schmitt	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Let's fix that and make sure that we're able to use the money for the purpose it was appropriated for. – Brian Deese	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've known for nearly a year that the eviction moratorium would eventually come to an end, in December, Congress appropriated $ 25 billion to assist renters. We have had seven months to spend that money. There is no excuse that it is not in the hands of those who need it the most. – David Dworkin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Even if the money was appropriated today, it would take time for those funds to reach the jurisdictions that in turn would need it. – James Blumenstock	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will phase development according to what the budget provides. Yes, it was less than requested, but we will quite ably work with the amount that was appropriated. – Barbara Barrett	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They either have to say theres a new set of rules for President Trump -- andthere will be for President Warren -- she will be able to declare national emergencies and take away Congress-appropriated and approved funds from militaryconstruction projects to spend them on her pet projects... or theyre going to say this is a problem. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The 2,000-word summation of a 30-minute phone call released by White House makes clear that days after the President ordered the delay of Congressionally-appropriated military assistance to Ukraine, he implored the President of Ukraine to work with his personal attorney to manufacture a smear against a domestic political opponent, using a malicious conspiracy theory that has been universally debunked by every independent outlet that has looked at it. – Hunter Biden	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded as an engineering school, designed to ensure that our Army's leaders had access to the best resources and education that would enable them to succeed in their military careers in defense of our nation, now, we find out that funds that Congress appropriated to design and build a state-of-the-art engineering center at West Point have been redirected for an expensive and ineffective wall at the southern border. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Importantly, while funding for this project was authorized and appropriated in FY19, it is no longer an FY19 project due to unforeseen environmental issues at the construction site, the Army had to complete a major environmental cleanup before the actual construction project could be awarded. At the earliest, this pushed the award back to summer of FY20. The environmental cleanup is expected to continue until August 2020. – Martha McSally	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Once again, DHS has ignored the negotiated agreement with Congress by vastly exceeding the amount appropriated for immigration enforcement and removal operations. – Lucille Roybal-Allard	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering - and to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I support the President on Border Security, but his declaration to take an additional $ 3.6 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, barracks and schools is inconsistent with the Lamar Alexander of Tennessee Constitution that I swore an oath to support and defend. – Lamar Alexander	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can't vote to give extraconstitutional powers to the President, i can't vote to give the President the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress. – Kentucky Republican	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I also think that it's ridiculous that we're even having this conversation because they haven't spent the money that's been appropriated for the wall. There was $ 1.6 billion that hasn't yet been spent building any of the wall. – Michael Bennet	Found on CNN 5 years ago
ICE only has a finite amount of money that they had been appropriated and that ended on December 21, if we go much more than a month or so, I would think that the money would run out. – Tracey Valerio	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Only about ten percent of what (Planned Parenthood gets) comes from appropriated monies, the balance of some $550 million is in an entitlement. – Hal Rogers	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Most people don’t have any understanding between appropriated spending and mandatory spending, this issue is so explosive and emotional and has been so publicly discussed across the country that it is difficult to come to a conclusion. – Hal Rogers	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They are paying insurers out of an account that's never been appropriated and taking money from elsewhere in the law to do this. I think this violates the Constitution. It certainly violates Congress' prerogative to appropriate funds. – House Speaker John Boehner	Found on CNN 9 years ago
And as it [the federal district] is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State ceding it; as the State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights, and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it; as the inhabitants will find sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the Legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated. – James Madison	added by anonymous 11 years ago

‘ Xiongnu ’ was the name of a dynasty not a people, per se ; but that dynastic regime greatly impacted the peoples within its realms and left a powerful legacy in Eurasia, many subsequent groups appropriated the potent name of Xiongnu( or Hunnu) as they established their own regimes, leading to the perpetuation of so-called ‘ Hunnic ’ entities even as far as that of Attila and the Huns at the edge of Europe centuries after the demise of the Xiongnu in Inner Asia.

– Genghis Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so.

– Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Let's fix that and make sure that we're able to use the money for the purpose it was appropriated for.

– Brian Deese

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've known for nearly a year that the eviction moratorium would eventually come to an end, in December, Congress appropriated $ 25 billion to assist renters. We have had seven months to spend that money. There is no excuse that it is not in the hands of those who need it the most.

– David Dworkin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even if the money was appropriated today, it would take time for those funds to reach the jurisdictions that in turn would need it.

– James Blumenstock

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will phase development according to what the budget provides. Yes, it was less than requested, but we will quite ably work with the amount that was appropriated.

– Barbara Barrett

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They either have to say theres a new set of rules for President Trump -- andthere will be for President Warren -- she will be able to declare national emergencies and take away Congress-appropriated and approved funds from militaryconstruction projects to spend them on her pet projects... or theyre going to say this is a problem.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The 2,000-word summation of a 30-minute phone call released by White House makes clear that days after the President ordered the delay of Congressionally-appropriated military assistance to Ukraine, he implored the President of Ukraine to work with his personal attorney to manufacture a smear against a domestic political opponent, using a malicious conspiracy theory that has been universally debunked by every independent outlet that has looked at it.

– Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded as an engineering school, designed to ensure that our Army's leaders had access to the best resources and education that would enable them to succeed in their military careers in defense of our nation, now, we find out that funds that Congress appropriated to design and build a state-of-the-art engineering center at West Point have been redirected for an expensive and ineffective wall at the southern border.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Importantly, while funding for this project was authorized and appropriated in FY19, it is no longer an FY19 project due to unforeseen environmental issues at the construction site, the Army had to complete a major environmental cleanup before the actual construction project could be awarded. At the earliest, this pushed the award back to summer of FY20. The environmental cleanup is expected to continue until August 2020.

– Martha McSally

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Once again, DHS has ignored the negotiated agreement with Congress by vastly exceeding the amount appropriated for immigration enforcement and removal operations.

– Lucille Roybal-Allard

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering - and to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I support the President on Border Security, but his declaration to take an additional $ 3.6 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, barracks and schools is inconsistent with the Lamar Alexander of Tennessee Constitution that I swore an oath to support and defend.

– Lamar Alexander

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can't vote to give extraconstitutional powers to the President, i can't vote to give the President the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress.

– Kentucky Republican

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I also think that it's ridiculous that we're even having this conversation because they haven't spent the money that's been appropriated for the wall. There was $ 1.6 billion that hasn't yet been spent building any of the wall.

– Michael Bennet

Found on CNN
5 years ago

ICE only has a finite amount of money that they had been appropriated and that ended on December 21, if we go much more than a month or so, I would think that the money would run out.

– Tracey Valerio

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Only about ten percent of what (Planned Parenthood gets) comes from appropriated monies, the balance of some $550 million is in an entitlement.

– Hal Rogers

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Most people don’t have any understanding between appropriated spending and mandatory spending, this issue is so explosive and emotional and has been so publicly discussed across the country that it is difficult to come to a conclusion.

– Hal Rogers

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They are paying insurers out of an account that's never been appropriated and taking money from elsewhere in the law to do this. I think this violates the Constitution. It certainly violates Congress' prerogative to appropriate funds.

– House Speaker John Boehner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And as it [the federal district] is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State ceding it; as the State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights, and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it; as the inhabitants will find sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the Legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated.

– James Madison

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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