Representative Sue Myrick of North Carolina said that any effort to vote more funds for New York City or homeland defense "is a vote to delay support for our men and women in Afghanistan".
QUESTION FROM JED L.: In your Comment you seem to apologize for the Obama administration's rather tepid, and delayed, support for the protesters by suggesting that the administration is simply following the lessons learned in Iraq regarding the imposition of a democracy in a foreign country.
In California, which was already experiencing a costly electrical power shortage before the economy turned downward, Gov. Gray Davis on Nov. 14 announced plans to delay support for poorly performing schools, cut assistance for novice teachers and reduce after-school programs like those here in Santa Ana, which is among the poorest districts in the nation.
Although it's possible the initiative could delay support for work elsewhere, the approach seems "sensible," says Martin Siegert, a polar scientist at Imperial College London who has worked on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
October 2, 2013 Lizzy Davies (@lizzy_davies) Letta: A new crisis now would mean: delaying key support for struggling businesses, embarrassing Italy in Europe.
The United States said the proposal did little more than delay government support for the aircraft.
In some ways, Mr. DeLay's support for Enron was a matter of constituent service.
Failure is prevented (or at least delayed) by government support for specific innovations to the exclusion of others.
So far, some of the opposition has been aimed at persuading Democratic senators at least to delay statements of support for Mr. Ashcroft based on the fact that he is a former colleague.
Will Portman, for example, wrote that his father, Senator Rob Portman, delayed announcing his support for same-sex marriage rights for two years after his son came out in part to protect the Yale student's privacy: We had decided that my dad would talk about having a gay son if he were to change his position on marriage equality.
