Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.
When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom
After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding.
Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.
I don't like the idea of telling private business owners - I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. But I absolutely think there should be no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding.
We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.
It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U. N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.