The bill consolidates a variety of programs into five broad categories, loosening federal definitions of how states must spend the money.
In their book The Plot Against the NHS, Colin Leys and Stewart Player show that Cameron's health and social care bill consolidates a plan that has been fermenting for many years.
The bill consolidates transportation programs, reducing the number by two-thirds.
A. Christopher Gilbride, a spokesman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection, responded by e-mail: "The short answer is that the bank we use for billing consolidated their payment collection centers.
In their place, he named specific pieces of legislation that he would introduce in office, including what he called the Retraining Reform Act, a bill to consolidate dozens of federal job training programs that he considers redundant and inefficient.
Science Insider has been reporting on pieces of the so-called "minibus"—an appropriations bill that consolidates $182 billion in spending by five departments (Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development) and a number of independent agencies, including the National Science Foundation.
The bill would consolidate the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program with 24 other programs into a diffuse block grant that does not ensure kids get any expanded learning opportunities.
The Senate bill would consolidate some programs to reduce costs, but at the same time expand services for underserved populations on Native American reservations and in immigrant and LGBT communities, as well as for sexual assault victims on college campuses.
Kline's bill also consolidates a slew of programs specifically devoted to things like English language learners and neglected children into Title I, a program devoted to helping schools with poor students.
When, for example, billing is consolidated across multiple products and insurance carriers, perhaps bundled with collection and disbursement of payments, complexity drops dramatically for the employer.
