Meanwhile, Mr. Liu and Councilman Simcha Felder have said that allocating an additional $15 million could pay for the remaining sidewalks that need fixing.
Analysts warned, however, that allocating more resources to Frontex, which works primarily to coordinate member states' border operations, would not automatically make the agency more effective.
Having been through a divorce herself, Horne is convinced that allocating time to a partner can have a huge impact on a relationship: "Maybe I didn't have success [in marriage] because we didn't have any date nights!" she said.
Another aide to a Republican House leader said that allocating much beyond the $20 billion already set aside for disaster relief for New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania was going to be extremely difficult.
Many of the converter academies were already high-performing and the committee says that allocating this amount to them instead "may have been at the expense of weaker non-academy schools which could potentially have benefitted from it more".
They said that allocating hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the tax cut in perpetuity would endanger the government's ability to pay Social Security benefits when the vast boomer generation retires.
