All the nontraditional elements of the campaign make it difficult to determine spending.
Sector strategies and plans for industrial clusters increasingly determine spending choices.
THEY are used to determine spending on political campaigns, to guide tactical voting and to enthuse or cow voters.
Kids determine spending on everything from big-ticket items like vacations, to smaller things like personal care products and breakfast cereals.
Lawmakers might challenge the bill's jurisdiction over so many agencies or question the authority of the citizen scientist-led panel to determine spending.
The government uses the forecast to determine spending and tax programs.
He said it also left too much discretion for determining spending priorities to the executive branch.
Mr. Baucus said the Republican approach was granting too much leeway to the administration to determine spending cuts.
But Eric Friedman, a spokesman for the city's Campaign Finance Board, said that the city would try to apply common sense, case by case, in determining spending limits.
They believe that hypothecation not only undermines public spending controls but inhibits government from determining spending priorities.Not long ago, the keepers of the public's purse-strings were still resolute in holding the line.
"Under those rules, a single member of Congress, the chairman of the Budget Committee, has the authority to determine spending levels for the government for the rest of the year," said Representative James P. McGovern of Massachusetts.
