Sentence examples for alternative spending from inspiring English sources

(House Republicans have passed two alternative spending cut bills, though both were in the last Congress).

The goal of both Mr. Obama and Congress is a package of alternative spending cuts and revenue increases.

He noted that the House last year passed bills to replace the sequester with alternative spending cuts.

Moreover, the balance between using cuts to fund deficit reduction or alternative spending is firmly in the direction of Conservative deficit hawks.

Mr. Ryan emphasized that he and his fellow House Republicans had come up with alternative spending cuts to prevent the automatic reductions from taking effect.

Although the proposals look to budget cuts over a decade, any future president can decide to propose an alternative spending plan to Congress.

We also discussed the alternative: Spend the evening with a friend and come back if symptoms appear.

Instead, here's an alternative: Spend the day in Grand Central Terminal, which is a mall in much the same way the Empire State Building is an office complex.

This option can be a better alternative than spending valuable classroom time to track down other school employees to mete out discipline, he said.

Human rights activists say that repatriation is not voluntary when the alternative is spending three years in jail.

A better alternative for spending $400 billion is to earmark half the money for truly comprehensive prescription coverage to lower-income elderly people.