1.   Because supplemental spending bills are usually urgent, they tend to be magnets for special-interest spending.

2.   Congress is working on a supplemental bill that will result in billions of dollars in additional spending this year.

3.   Democrats said that even if the legislation does pass, funding would come from another source, possibly in a supplemental spending bill.

4.   Graham and others complained that Republican leaders had mishandled a supplemental spending bill that provided disaster relief to dozens of states hit by various natural calamities.

5.   Graham and others said Republicans mishandled a supplemental spending bill that provided disaster relief to dozens of states hit by various natural calamities.

6.   Graham and others said Republicans mishandled a supplemental spending bill.

7.   He warned that Congress is not likely to pass anything this week, other than the supplemental spending bill and war-powers resolution.

8.   House GOP appropriators went after the money during the initial drafting of the supplemental spending bill in early June.

9.   If the disaster appropriations supplemental bill passes the Senate today, how much funding will go to California for El Nino relief?

10.   Lawmakers also like to use supplemental spending bills to pass policy changes that might not otherwise make it through Congress.