Sentence examples for billion dollar congress from inspiring English sources

"God help the surplus!" cried a leader of the pensioned war veterans as Harrison led his Republican majority into office and spent it all in what was known as the Billion Dollar Congress.

But he could not solve the problem of the tariff rate (which at beginning of his tenure was generating an embarrassing Treasury surplus), and Democrat jibes about the "Billion Dollar Congress" fuelled a widespread sense that he was mismanaging the nation's finances.

Why didn't Labor raise the roof about this and why didn't they reject utterly the LNP's billion dollar Arena cut?

According to his calculations, he was actually worth two and a quarter billion dollars — Forbes had lowballed him by eighty per cent.

The Massachusetts legislature in 2008 considered taxing colleges 2.5% annually on all endowment funds in excess of one billion dollars (Harvard's tab would have been about $800 million).

The contention was advanced by the Vehicle Research Cor poration, which between 1966 and 1968 executed a million dollar Air Force research con tract on the problem.

Facebook hadn't opened beyond colleges and high schools, the newsfeed hadn't launched and this was even before the lucrative several-hundred-million dollar Microsoft ad deal.

Do you have a million dollar Corporate Responsibility budget to allocate as you see fit? 3. Filter for Joy.

There was to be a ten dollar Gold Eagle coin, a silver dollar, and fractional money ranging from one-half to fifty cents.

Annual revenue fell by half a billion dollars last year, and while cutting Saturday delivery alone would save two billion dollars, Congress has opposed any such reductions in service.

And with over-all federal debt standing at more than eighteen trillion dollars Congress would strongly oppose the Treasury's borrowing more money for another stimulus package.