Sentence examples for before the stimulus package from inspiring English sources

Ms. McCann said that before the stimulus package was approved, the county received $1.2 million in federal community development money, which she thought could be used to help the group buy the apartment property.

It was based on comparing the number of people currently employed with projections that the council said economists would have made many months ago, using typical methods, before the stimulus package was passed.

In January of 2009, before the stimulus package was passed, Alice Rivlin, the distinguished Brookings Institution economist and the director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton, strongly recommended that the recession-fighting elements of the package, like extending unemployment insurance, should be separated from the public investment program.

This was before Obama was president, before the stimulus package, and before the economy faltered.

Ultimately, Senate Democrats are likely to seek to extend the transit benefit increase along with a host of other expiring tax provisions, including some also from the stimulus package, before the end of the year.

And many of them, particularly the Republicans, are complaining about provisions of last year's health care overhaul, and of the stimulus package before it, that require the states to maintain eligibility levels in order to keep their federal Medicaid dollars.

His budget, and the stimulus package before it, invested money in all the right places: improving health care and education, rebuilding our roads and bridges, creating green jobs, getting universal broadband, and generally helping the low-income and working class folks most affected by our economy crisis.

The panelists largely approved of the stimulus package in their comments before the poll results came in.

Harry Reid, the majority leader, promised to bring it up early this year before the Senate was overwhelmed by new business like the stimulus package.

Instead it became an opportunity for the president to confirm that the stimulus package he proposed only four days ago, before Monday's market plunges, was on track.

The incident occurred last February, before Jones joined the administration and at a time when the battle to get the stimulus package passed was ongoing.