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
• Despite a flurry of public safety bills over the last 12 months, which have been combined in an omnibus package working its way through the D.C. Council, the report suggested that the city was still without a comprehensive public safety plan.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024