Critics say provisions in the law to help schools avoid the penalties have not been fully financed.
Even the new Transportation Security Administration, which as of last week is handling passenger screening at all the nation's airports, has not been fully financed.
President Bush's involvement in education is centered on the No Child Left Behind law, which itself has not been fully financed.
In what could be a new high water mark of anti-Washington sentiment, the city of Troy, Mich., is rejecting a long-planned transportation center whose construction would have been fully financed with federal stimulus money.
More than 15,000 artists have set up projects at the site, but fewer than 50 have been fully financed, said Michael Bogatzki, the new chief executive, who invested in the company early this year after it filed for bankruptcy.
While September 11 memorials in New York and Virginia have been fully financed, officials said, the one in Shanksville, Pa., where the passenger jet went down, remains short of its target.
But Joseph Conway, a spokesman for the governor, said any additional appropriation must be viewed in the context of a looming budget crisis and a long list of programs that have not been fully financed.
As the administration debated the issue in Washington today, President Bush came here to argue for a passage of a $450 million budget request for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program that is more than three decades old but has never been fully financed by Congress.
The study has been fully financed by the Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital.
