If we're really in such a rush, it would make a lot more sense to use the approval, appropriations, and contracting system already in place, rather than inventing a whole new bureaucracy, for speed.One senses Mr Obama emphasised infrastructure make-work schemes to help satisfy a certain desire among liberals to see a greater direct government effort to boost employment.
Megadollar by megadollar, pressure keeps mounting for a House ethics investigation into the cycling of rich Pentagon contracts and campaign contributions through the appropriations empire ruled by Representative John Murtha.
Pateman extends her critique of the ideology of contract to the case of colonial appropriation of native peoples' lands with what she calls the "settler contract".
So collective bargaining agreements -- union employment contracts -- don't supersede the appropriations clause of the state constitution.
(Contrast that with the contract health care fund that is an appropriation and always short of funding).
Because Mexico cannot receive any cash under Plan Mexico, the entire appropriations package translates into juicy contracts for arms manufacturers, mercenary firms, and U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.
She introduced the original women's contracting bill, which was attached to the S.B.A. appropriations legislation and approved in December 2000.
The examples below are all strictly from DoD contracts, with the funding coming out of the appropriations for things like "Operations and Maintenance" and, somehow, "Research and Development".
One message advises a partner that a condition for "keeping funds flowing" mandates that part of the contract money, approved through Representative Murtha's powerful defense appropriations subcommittee, be channeled to companies in Johnstown, Pa., his uncle's home district.
The McCall camp accused the governor of buying the endorsement with an extra $200 million appropriation this year to pay for the teachers' contract.
