One place to look, especially apt in this instance: The 1956 congressional debate that created the interstate highway system. The 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act was the health-care legislation of its day, an epic Washington battle. The pressure had been building for decades as the number of cars exploded.
Definition of 'appropriation'. appropriation. An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose. The government raised defence appropriations by 12 per cent. Appropriation of something that belongs to someone else is the act of taking it, usually without having the right to do so. [formal] Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land.
In a more general sense, the strophe is a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based, with the strophe usually being identical with the stanza in modern poetry and its arrangement and recurrence of rhymes giving it its character.