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To implement this doctrine, which the Air Force and its supporters regarded as the highest national priority, the Air Force proposed that it should be funded by the Congress to build a large fleet of U. S. based long-range strategic heavy bombers.
Congress has not funded this program.
Congress has not funded this program.
According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.
When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.
In Florida in 1990, retired financial planner Jack Gargan funded a series of " I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore " ( a reference to a famous quotation from the 1976 political and mass media satire movie, Network ) newspaper advertisements denouncing the U. S. Congress for voting for legislative pay raises at a time when average wages nationwide were not increasing.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( CPB ) is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting.
However, these laws had limited effect as they were poorly funded by Congress and poorly enforced by Attorney General Edward Bates.
Starting in 1887, Congress also funded agricultural experiment stations and various categories of agricultural and veterinary research " under direction of " the land-grant universities.
Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the WPA was funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935.
Corps of Engineers projects can be found in all fifty states, and are specifically authorized and funded directly by Congress.
In his Report on Public Credit, he urged Congress to consolidate the state and national debts into a single debt that would be funded by the federal government.
They funded a political action committee ( PAC ) in 1982 to lobby Congress.
Yet with its passage, Congress never fully funded the program.
* The Catalina Sky Survey ( CSS ) is one of NASA ´ s four funded surveys to carry out a 1998 U. S. Congress mandate to find and catalog by the end of 2008, at least 90 percent of all near-Earth objects ( NEOs ) larger than 1 kilometer across.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ( RFE / RL ) is a broadcaster funded by the U. S. Congress that provides news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East " where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed ".
These findings have been validated in the educational outreach program initiated by the Library of Congress in 1995 and initially funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
He loaned money to the cause and funded shipping and privateering, but was censured by the Continental Congress in 1780 for his role in the seizure of a neutral Portuguese vessel.
It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U. S. Congress, within the budget of USAID, the U. S. agency for development assistance, which is part of the U. S. State Department.
On 26 August 1775, Rhode Island General Assembly passed a resolution that there be a single Continental fleet funded by the Continental Congress.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Park site and while its operations budget is funded by the United States Congress, it works with many partner organizations that have unique roles in supporting it:
However J. P .’ s being part of the nationalist movement against the British rule in India left the college being funded by the British Government and joined the Bihar Vidyapith, a tertiary institution set up by Bihar Congress for all non-co-operation students.
As the GAO would later note, " Furthermore, the Laboratory's former laser director, who oversaw NIF and all other laser activities, assured Laboratory managers, DOE, the university, and the Congress that the NIF project was adequately funded and staffed and was continuing on cost and schedule, even while he was briefed on clear and growing evidence that NIF had serious problems ".
The plan was never funded by Congress and was not built.

Congress and FEMA
After FEMA's creation through reorganization and executive orders, Congress continued to expand FEMA ’ s authority by assigning responsibilities to it.
A 1992 interim report by the Congress ( prior to Hurricane Andrew, which led to further criticism of FEMA ) had said, " FEMA is widely viewed as a political dumping ground, a turkey farm, if you will, where large numbers of positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political appointment ..."
** Mount Weather → Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) ( Used temporarily for Members of Congress in Sept. 2001 )
In the US, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) leads and coordinates response to major disasters, Among volunteers, the American Red Cross is chartered by Congress in 1900 to lead and coordinate non-profit efforts.
President Bush signed a $ 10. 5 billion relief package that was passed by Congress which included supplemental funds for FEMA, as well as $ 500 million for the Pentagon for its relief efforts.

Congress and through
Even so, the Draft Act encountered rough sledding in its progress through the Congress.
The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.
I recommend to the Congress the establishment of a permanent Peace Corps -- a pool of trained American men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private organizations and institutions to help foreign countries meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower.
The threat of effective anti-trust action, provoked by `` gouging the public '' through price increases not justified by cost increases, and fears of endangering relations with customers, Congress, the general public and the press, all operate to keep price increases in some relation to cost increases.
Consider what happened during World War 1,, when the Protestant churches united to push the Prohibition law through Congress.
The President asks the support and cooperation of Congress in his efforts through the enactment of legislation to provide federal grants to states for specified efforts in combating this disturbing crime trend.
His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the black slaves nationwide in December 1865.
He ushered through the Congress a bill expanding the Freedman's Bureau, but Johnson vetoed it.
In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.
Clinton made a major speech to Congress regarding a health care reform plan on September 22, 1993, aimed at achieving universal coverage through a national health care plan.
That year, Hillary Clinton shepherded through Congress the Adoption and Safe Families Act and two years later she succeeded in helping pass the Foster Care Independence Act.
His reform legislation was finally rammed through Congress under pressure from younger military officers, who were sick of the neglect of the armed forces, political infighting, social unrest, and galloping inflation.
The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.
Many libraries adopted Internet filters after Congress conditioned the receipt of universal service discounts on the use of Internet filters through the Children's Internet Protection Act ( CIPA ).
Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I.
Responding to favorable public opinion to alleviate unemployment Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, on 8 April 1935, which included continued funding for the CCC program through 31 March 1937.
Funding was also extended for three more years through Public No. 163, 75th Congress, effective 1 July 1937.
" Speaker Martin concluded that Eisenhower worked too much through subordinates in dealing with Congress, with results, " often the reverse of what he has desired " because Members of Congress ," resent having some young fellow who was picked up by the White House without ever having been elected to office himself coming around and telling them ' The Chief wants this '.
His tough macroeconomic adjustment measures were unpopular, but he succeeded in pushing a limited number of modernization initiatives through Congress.
The HP Discover 2011 event in EMEA is slated to take place in Vienna, Austria, at the Reed Exhibitions, Messe Wien Congress Center, on November 29 through December 1, 2011.
Congress through the board of war concurred.
In 1781, Boudinot returned to the Congress, for a term lasting through 1783.
Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the National Park Service.

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