The chief justice asked Congress to approve budget requests for a modernization and security upgrade project at the Supreme Court and to address a backlog in the federal judiciary's continuing courthouse construction plan.
The official, Jacob J. Lew, deputy secretary of state, said that Pakistan was now issuing visas in a more timely manner and had begun to address a backlog that had obstructed American work here, including the processing of hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid.
"It's enabling us to really address a backlog of street needs," Corrigan told the council earlier this month.
Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) said her bill, AB 1517, is meant to address a backlog of such evidence that sits "on the …shelves of our law enforcement agencies".
While in the legislature, Rice focused heavily on transportation issues and was a key sponsor of a 2009 transportation funding bill increasing vehicle registration fees in order to address a backlog of bridge and transportation requirements.
The labor board said that in 2007, Boeing announced plans to create a second production line that would make three 787 Dreamliner planes a month in the Puget Sound area to address a growing backlog of orders.
The authority wants to raise more than $50 million a year on long-term leases for parks, courtyards, parking lots, playgrounds and other property, seeking to address a $6 billion backlog of repairs.
Part of the money would be devoted to testing for felons who claimed to be innocent, but most would be used to address a growing backlog of forensic evidence from crime scenes and to expand the national DNA database.
Labour's priority when it came to power in 1997 was to address a £19bn backlog in repairs.
The House bill also entirely left out two separate measures attached to the Senate bill: the SAFER Act, which helps law enforcement address a backlog in untested rape kits, and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which targets human trafficking.
