How to Use omnibus in a Sentence

omnibus

1 of 2 noun

• Then the sides worked side-by-side to forge the March omnibus bill.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• And so the omnibus left the station sans a reform package.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
• Within just a few minutes, Risch agreed to move ahead with a change to the omnibus.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
• The House passed its own elections omnibus bill, HB 531, on March 1.
  — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2021
• The missed deadline last night does mean that the House cannot vote on the omnibus until Thursday.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018
• The omnibus is everything that is broken in D.C., dumped in one steaming pile.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• At some point there's probably also going to be an omnibus for many, if not all, the 12 spending bills.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• The amendment came in the final days before Congress must pass the 4,155-page omnibus to avert a government shutdown.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
• Yes, that’s one scripted show, one show with more of a singular focus and one multi-decade omnibus.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2022
• Democrats support the bill, but had hoped that the legislation would be coupled with more robust gun control measures rather than just tucked in the omnibus.
  — Deirdre Walsh, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
• Congress showed its disdain for climate programs elsewhere in the omnibus, too.
  — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2018
• What the president's saying is, one, no more omnibuses.
  — Fox News, 19 Aug. 2018
• All 100 senators must reach an agreement to limit debate time and amendment votes in order to pass the omnibus by this Friday.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• Republicans in good faith took his direction on the omnibus.
  — Andrew Malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• There was an opportunity to add protections for Dreamers in the omnibus, too, but they were also left out.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• In fact, opposition to the omnibus by group members and other conservatives is why Republicans had to turn to Democrats to pass the measure in the first place.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2018
• Congressional conservatives, most of whom opposed the omnibus, and the outside groups that align with them, are already ramping up in support of the idea as well.
  — Cnn's Capitol Hill Team, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
• The agreement on the 2021 omnibus and School Aid Fund budgets was announced late Wednesday afternoon by the governor’s office.
  — Bruce Walker, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
• Republicans are merely using the tools of the majority to pass their agenda, much as Democrats used the tools of the Senate minority to pass theirs in the omnibus.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2018
• Northam signed the Senate omnibus bill and amended a few others, in one case with a technical change to make the House bill on minimum training standards line up with the Senate version.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• Anyone who votes for the omnibus is voting for the deportation of Dreamers and other immigrants.
  — Essence.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Congress is debating a stopgap omnibus that will last through Sept. 30, which is presumably when the next fake crisis will arrive.
  — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2017
• Senate and House appropriators have been working to write the omnibus over the past several weeks, but there are still policy hang-ups that are running down the clock.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
• The omnibus will provide funding through fiscal year 2022, which started in October.
  — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• That ensured services continue until Biden could sign the full-year measure, called an omnibus, into law.
  — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
• Maybe all that was missing, until this newest movie, was the one-volume omnibus, the career retrospective packed into two hours.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
• The students at the Howard County school, a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1848, were geared up as the players approached the winding drive, and its spouting fountain, in an omnibus drawn by six horses.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2021
• The March omnibus spending deal follows through on an agreement to spend significantly more over the next two years than any Obama-era spending cap increase.
  — Adam N. Michel, star-telegram, 22 Mar. 2018
• An omnibus of short stories, focusing on characters during a crucial day of their lives.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• Whether the film is a narrative movie or an omnibus of connected music videos remains to be explained, too, although the long list of directors would point toward the latter.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023

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omnibus

2 of 2 adjective

• There were three major votes on the omnibus bill in the House.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
• But at the last minute, RAWA got left out of the omnibus spending bill.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The tax change is part of an omnibus spending bill that Democrats hope to enact by May 22.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
• This is the first step in the lengthy budget process and comes just weeks after Congress passed the omnibus spending bill for the rest of 2022.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2022
• Congress passed one of them just last week, two weeks ago, in the omnibus bill and raised our funding for police.
  — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2022
• The funding was left out of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package.
  — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• However, Biden did sign the omnibus bill, which was $1.5 trillion on March 15.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
• The money would come from the roughly $13.6 billion allotted for Ukraine in the omnibus budget law.
  — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• The provision was omitted from last year’s omnibus bill.
  — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 2 Mar. 2023
• No one is saying rank-and-file House Republicans must like the lame-duck omnibus deal.
  — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• Then Senate leadership stepped in and got the bill into the state’s omnibus transportation bill.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The money would come from the roughly $13.6 billion allotted for Ukraine in the omnibus budget bill Mr. Biden signed Tuesday.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• Both measures were adopted as amendments to the $1.7 trillion end-of-year omnibus spending bill which passed in the Senate Thursday.
  — Vicki Shabo, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• The omnibus bill passed in December provided some help.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Since the omnibus effort, the Commanders official said, the team has been on standby while waiting for city leaders to act.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• Murkowski and Young both voted last week in favor of an omnibus bill that included $14 billion in aid for Ukraine.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• The latter approach worked once in the omnibus fight, allowing Democrats to set spending levels prior to losing control of the House.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2023
• The company worked on the two omnibus bills, offering to return to greater oversight and reviews every two years.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• There’s plenty to criticize in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 22 Dec. 2022
• Though Congress is set to pass another $44 billion in Ukraine aid through the omnibus spending bill expected to pass this week.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• The omnibus spending bill President Biden signed on Dec. 29 will make the journey easier.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The omnibus spending package passed earlier this month included the largest increase of the agency's budget in two decades – a 10% raise.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
• The omnibus bill would also consolidate more power in his hands.
  — Lucía Cholakian Herrera Sarah Pabst, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The narrative glue holding the four episodes together is far looser than in other omnibus films.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
• That labeling requirement was repealed with the passage of the 2016 omnibus spending bill.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• The move aims to divide work on the 12 individual spending bills to avoid a massive omnibus bill to fund the government, which has become the norm in recent years.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Biden signed it to ensure services would continue until Congress sent him the full-year measure, called an omnibus bill.
  — Darlene Superville, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
• Our email in-boxes are filled with news releases from Members of Congress hailing the passage this week of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The designation came as part of the federal omnibus spending bill Congress passed Dec. 23.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• Then there’s the legislature’s omnibus liquor bill, which is still being worked over by legislators as the session winds down.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024