Some sort of domestic sourcing requirement has applied to most major infrastructure expenditures passed by Congress since World War II, so it would have been a surprise if a requirement had not been attached to the stimulus spending.
The idea that money equals speech comes from the Supreme Court's decision in Buckley v. Valeo, which overturned a whole host of limits on campaign and independent expenditures passed in the post-Watergate era, although it did uphold limits on campaign contributions.
Public programs commonly hedge against paying 'undeserved' savings [ 18], by requiring that the difference between benchmark and provider expenditures passes a minimum threshold level.
Non-Surgical procedures, with 42 % of the total expenditure, passed the 5-billion-mark for the first time.
Some people want to raid the account for family expenses, arguing that a new home would be for the benefit of the child, for example, but it's doubtful that such expenditures would pass muster.
It would commit Congress to cutting current spending, capping future expenditures and passing a constitutional amendment requiring balanced annual budgets.
Even though it would take more time, he said Congress should examine each category of tax expenditure and pass a comprehensive tax reform bill that makes sense in terms of policy and fairness.
Pete Wishart, a senior SNP MP, said: "This expenditure was passed off as national expenditure, even though this activity was specifically targeted to support individual candidates.
I look at expenditure per head, the pass-me-down process – the offcuts from rolling stock always end up in the north.
The ALP won a snap election in May 1974, but by mid-1975 the government had lost the parliamentary support needed to pass government expenditure bills.
