House Republicans Are Stepping Up Efforts to Attach Special Policy Riders to Spending Bills

"... Among the provisions listed as victories are a series of antiabortion measures inserted into at least four different appropriations bills; a provision exempting livestock producers from the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse-gas regulations; a prohibition on any funding being used to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States and for construction or acquisition of a prison in the U.S. to house such detainees; and a reduction in EPA staffing to the lowest levels since 1989. It also cited the provisions concerning the U.N. and the incandescent bulb..."

http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2014/04/house-republicans-are-stepping-efforts-attach-special-policy-riders-spending-bills/82963/