Cutting funding for Vilsack's superfluous programs won't solve the budget crisis, but it might serve as an example of how to cut waste instead of using appropriated monies as a slush fund for pet projects.
Even so, this can still be seen as a plus-sum situation: if an adequate level of NSF and/or NIH funding were to be provided to support such ethics coursework (or curricula), appropriated monies could be used to re-fortify humanities' programs that could be specifically designed to more authentically and effectively inter-digitate with the sciences and medicine.
If the Coalition were serious about improving standards, they would give universities appropriate public monies to support their staff, regardless of how many students they fail.
There is authorized to be appropriated, and there is appropriated, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,500,000,000 to be available for fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to be used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the construction and renovation of community health centers.
He has handled a number of prison reform cases and a number of key separation of powers cases, including successful cases attacking the Reagan Administration's effort to impound monies appropriated for low-income housing and job training programs.
That number is considerably higher when you take into account all the special circumstances the country is afforded as well as other monies appropriated including $1.6 billion to build housing solely for Israelis.
In calling for the reform to be revenue neutral over the long term, and in appropriating some of the monies that would be created during the transition to the new system, they are effectively calling for a modest tax increase over the short term, although they would be understandably reluctant to describe it as such.
Monies were appropriated to the executive branch for various purposes and it had the responsibility of spending them.
The disaster Harvey caused in Houston would have been unimaginably worse without the monies previously appropriated to space by long-term thinkers in Congress.
7 of the Constitution when they spent public monies that were not appropriated by the Congress". U.S. House of Reps.
