Taking the measures one at a time, the first – and the biggest – was to "time limit contributory employment and support allowance" for one year, that is the benefit formerly known as incapacity benefit.
By allowing naturally ignited wildfires to burn to achieve resource benefit (formerly known as wildland fire use), fuel conditions may be improved thus reducing wildfire risk in adjacent areas.
The nasty and prolonged brawl over extended unemployment benefits -- formerly a popular, consensus issue -- and the jettisoning this week of a climate change bill were just the latest manifestations of the near paralysis that has infected the Senate despite the Democrats' control of 59 votes.
The challenge was designed to oppose proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the public benefit program formerly referred to as "food stamps".
It's essentially a plea to tweak SNAP regulations (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Benefits, the program formerly and more familiarly known as Food Stamps) so that the program concerns itself with the quality of calories instead of just their quantity.
However, the explosive growth of fracking in the nation in the past decade has raised serious new scientific questions about the risks and benefits of this formerly obscure method of extracting natural gas.
Plus, I receive the benefit of bringing formerly unconscious worries to the surface so that I can address and heal them.
In a statement for that group, Dr. Schiff said that it was "time to strike a balance" between the formerly overstated benefits of hormone therapy and what he described as its overstated risks.
James Norby, president of the National Retiree Legislative Network, an advocacy group that is urging Congress to strengthen legal protections for retired workers, said companies that charged for formerly covered benefits had found "a clever way of getting out of the contract they made to people who had been retired for 15 or 20 years".
Formerly of Benefit (FOB).
