Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior v. Oglala Sioux Tribal Public Safety Department

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• finding available appropriations limited to $95,823,000 because the $1.5 billion general appropriation act expressly limited payments for contract support costs to this amount
• stating that \we must assume that Congress 'says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there'\ (quoting Conn. Nat'l Bank v. Germain, 503 U.S. 249, 254 (1992))
• rejecting the identical argument based on New York Airways, stating \Oglala's situation differs fundamentally in that the ability of Interior to bind the Government contractually was expressly conditioned on the availability of appropriations.\
• rejecting the identical argument based on New York Airways, stating “Oglala’s situation differs fundamentally in that the ability of Interi- or to bind the Government contractually was expressly conditioned on the availability of appropriations.”

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