WEIRTON - A $100,000 federal appropriation to help Weirton devise an economic development strategy came under fire on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.The appropriation was one of several to draw the attention of an Arizona conservative trying to cut pork from the 2007 appropriations bill for the...
It's about time that Congress made a multi-year appropriation for the Central Liquidity Facility, the NCUA-managed emergency loan fund known as the CLF. For Y2K emergency purposes, Congress agreed two years ago to raise the appropriation level from its traditional $600 million, to $20.7-billion, just in case widespread member...
A $24.4 million appropriation for research and eradication of Pierce's Disease was approved by the Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives in July. The funding is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture budget for fiscal year 2003. The bill now moves to the floor of the...
President Bill Clinton approved a budget appropriation of $638.9 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST for fiscal year 2000 on November 29, 1999. At the time of publication, it was unknown how a 0.38 percent across-the-board reduction agreed upon by the White House and Congress as...
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus says, "There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." Public transportation in the United States has ridden just such a flood. In June, the public transportation budget faced a hefty...
In May, the Commerce, Justice, State CJS Appropriation Subcommittee held a hearing in which two foundry owners testified on the effects Chinese imports are having on the U.S.' manufacturing, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries. As a result of the concerns raised, the CJS Appropriation Subcommittee, which funds the Dept. of Commerce...
Among the many recipients in the US. House of Representatives' VA-HUD $84 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2002, NASA and the National Science Foundation will receive more money than they did last year, while the Environmental Protection Agency will get less. NASA's portion of the appropriation is $15 billion,...
The management of knowledge and know-how becomes more and more important in organizations. Building corporate memories for conserving and sharing knowledge has become a rather common practice. However, one often forgets that the efficiency of these activities is strictly connected to the appropriation capacities and learning of the organizational actors....
TORONTO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 24, 1998-- Cryptologic Inc.(CANADIAN DEALING NETWORK:CRYP.) CryptoLogic Inc. reported today that the U.S. Senate has approved the Kyl bill as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and State appropriation bill rather than as a free-standing piece of legislation. The Company's understanding is that it is doubtful that the...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Hematech, LLC announced today that the House and Senate conference committee on the FY 2005 Defense Department Appropriations bill has included $3 million to support Hematech's antibody development programs. The funding will be administered by the Army's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program JVAP. This is the second...
The Federal Railroad Administration's FY 2001 appropriation comes to a little over $700 million, with by far the biggest share, $521.5 million, going to Amtrak. The Amtrak Reform Council gets $750,000. The appropriation contains $101.7 million for safety and operations, $15.3 million for research and development, $25.1 million for next...
On June 14, 1994, Tax Executives Institute submitted the following comments to the Senate Appropri on the Clinton Administration's appropriation request for the Internal Revenue Service's tax systems initiatives. The comments, which took the form of a letter from TEI President Ralph J. Weiland to Se chairman of the Appropriations...
The House voted to reduce fees on SBA's flagship 7a loan program by restoring a federal subsidy. The House added $40 million to SBA's 2007 appropriation to cover the cost. Two years ago the Bush administration persuaded Congress to eliminate the appropriation for the...
MSEIP Grants. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education is accepting applications for its FY 2004 Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program MSEIP grants. Although Congress has not enacted a final appropriation for FY 2004, the Education Department is inviting applications for this competition...
The president is asking for a $28.6 million appropriation for the Community Development Financial Institutions CDFI Fund, a 69.6% slashing of the fund from last year’s appropriation of $94 million. The CDFI Fund is aimed at expanding the availability of credit, investment capital and financial services in distressed urban...
Funding for a veterans nursing home in Ogden continues to hold up a $150 million appropriations bill. House and Senate leaders were meeting Tuesday night in an attempt to sort out a quickly-burgeoning dispute over a last-minute, $4.5 million appropriation by the House for the nursing home. That...
MSEIP Grants--The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education is accepting applications for its FY 2004 Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program MSEIP grants. Although Congress has not enacted a final appropriation for FY 2004, the Education Department is inviting applications for this competition now...
As part of the recently passed Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill, all remaining subrogation claims associated with New Mexico's Cerro Grande fire have been settled. The fire began as a controlled hum by the National Park Service in the Bandelier National Monument in May 2000....
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation recommended an appropriation of $762 million for Amtrak, well below the $1.2 billion being considered by ... The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation recommended an appropriation of $762 million for Amtrak, well below the $1.2 billion being...
SAN DIEGO -- Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO) announced today that it has been awarded an appropriation of approximately $1 million by the United States Department of Defense for the development of its gene delivery electroporation technology for application to vaccination against infectious diseases, including potential bioterrorism agents. The United States...
