Mr. Geren, who said Mr. Crabb often traveled to Austin, is one of at least 11 members of the House who devoted no taxpayer money to trips.
The huge balances in the account have been contentious, because they reflect in part Iraq's unwillingness or inability to spend money on its own reconstruction, while the United States has devoted $50 billion of taxpayer money for that purpose.
Latham's at least put some effort into his anti-elitist shtick, devoting his taxpayer-funded retirement to paint himself as a humble western suburbs bloke relentlessly persecuted by mean feminists and politically correct leftists and goodness knows what else.
After a period in which the federal government devoted billions of taxpayers dollars to bailing out the banking industry, Mr. Viniar admitted that the bank had been "clearly helped by government actions and policies".
The unspent windfall, which covers surpluses from oil sales since 2005, appears likely to reinforce growing debate about the approximately $48 billion in American taxpayer money devoted to rebuilding Iraq since the American-led invasion.
In fact, the legislation would cancel these fees in any year that Congress does not maintain general taxpayer revenues devoted to the revival of this vital program at the levels appropriated in Fiscal Year 2014.
Sixty years on another senator, Tom Harkin, helped to set up the National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the world's leading medical-research outfit, the National Institutes of Health (NIH .Small pillsThe $1.5 billion that taxpayers have devoted to NCCAM has brought meagre returns.
Voters in November overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have devoted more than $1 billion in taxpayer money toward the stadium and a surrounding project.
Petersen-Overton's personal biases should not be allowed to pollute the academic realm, nor should taxpayer dollars be devoted to promoting his one-sided agenda.
The amounts taxpayers devote to it vary, as does the balance between state and private provision.
