What if all you had to do was click, and you'd be taken to an online tool where you could write a letter to the appropriate lawmaker, be guaranteed delivery, and then see how your story is "appreciated" by other people interested in the same issue?
A spokesman for the governor said it was more appropriate for lawmakers to consider the measure during the Legislature's normal course of business, not in a special session.
At an appropriate moment, Democratic lawmakers may approach Governor Rowland privately to talk about what comes next, the aide said.
These rules set explicit caps on discretionary spending (the money that lawmakers appropriate every year) and demand that tax cuts or policy increases in mandatory spending, such as on Medicare, be paid for by cuts elsewhere.
He argued that "nonprofit organizations throughout the state have been devastated by the economic downturn," but lawmakers appropriated money for gun clubs, churches, a yoga foundation and the Wantagh American Legion Pipe Band, among thousands of other projects.
President Obama has signaled that he is open to the idea, asking Congress for $250 million to deploy the National Guard while also saying he was "not interested in militarizing the border". In the war supplemental funding bill that Obama signed last week, lawmakers appropriated the money for other Justice and DHS border security but said the president could ask again when he reached a decision.
She has almost single-handedly persuaded lawmakers to appropriate millions for research.
A handful of his colleagues from both parties acknowledged one simple truth: lawmakers should appropriate funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC), and they should do so urgently.
Enron officials have in the past asked Mr. Bush to help lobby lawmakers to appropriate funds for O.P.I.C., as well as for the Export-Import Bank, another federal agency that aids American companies abroad.
But teachers said the extra money for schools was not enough to make up for years of funding cuts, so they walked out last Monday to press lawmakers to appropriate more money for schools.
