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Whether looking at the allocation of federal tax dollars, public opinion regarding the health care reform law, or the national 2012 election, one issu...
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The authors examine the enduring difficulties of reforming the budgetary process, explain some of the causes of these difficulties and reco...
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. Federal Register: September 15, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 17... for Participating in the Appeals Process for the 2010. Decennial Census Local Update of Cen...
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Public opinion holds great importance in democracies because a democracy, by its very definition, connotes a form of government that is responsive to ...
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Legislative Issues - United States Congress
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
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The steps under way as part of the federal budget process to slash support for basic technological research are bewildering at best.
Lost among proposed budget cuts is the fact that America's ace in the hole - university research - isn't a spigot that can be turned off and on without hamstringing the nation's future economy. Consider that the United States has been the locus of discovery and innovation that created industries including aerospace, biotechnology, information technology and all of that is enabled by the Internet. Those high-tech industries, which today share the semiconductor as their empowering workhorse, have created tremendous economic growth and millions of highly skilled and highly paid jobs. Their life-giving computer chips were born in the United States, thanks to f...
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CANTON -- Scotty Kilbreth, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, reported Thursday night that money for building a dam at the outlet of Lake Anasagunticook is held up by indecision on the federal budget.
The CDBG program has no choice but to wait for the federal budget process to be decided," according to a letter from Michael Baran of the state Office of Community Development. He said due to the uncertainty of the federal budget process at the Office of Community Development, they were unable to move forward at this time with grants for public facilities and infrastructure.