Army Appropriations Act refers to several federal acts considered by the U.S. Congress:
- Army Appropriations Act (1880)
- Army Appropriations Act (1901), which included the Platt Amendment
- Army Appropriations Act of 1916
- Army Appropriations Act (1919)
Famous quotes containing the words army and/or act:
“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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