Sentence examples for federal outlay from inspiring English sources

Congress carved the doughnut hole into the Medicare prescription drug plan as a way to limit the federal outlay.

With a little political grandstanding, the most insignificant federal outlay can be made to look like runaway government.

Laura Bush appeared at a Washington public library in April to kick off "the Campaign for America's Libraries" -- just one week before her husband's budget cut the federal outlay for libraries by $39 million.

The American Action Forum, a conservative-leaning research group, calculated the federal outlay to be at least $400 billion, and then only if the deportations were stretched over 20 years.

Podesta and his working group started from the premise that Bush's tax cuts have actually increased the burden on wage earners; lower taxes on corporations, dividends and estates mean that people who rely on weekly paychecks are shouldering a greater share of the federal outlay.

A voucher system would call for a staggering federal outlay, but would not have to mean any increase in how much government intrudes in our lives.

Health-care spending already exceeds a quarter of federal outlays.

War spending, like other federal outlays, is a factor that contributes to the annual deficit.

Mr. Niskanen's finding was that fiscal deficits led to higher, not lower, federal outlays.

From 1980 to 2000, federal outlays averaged about 21.5 percent and receipts about 18.5 percent of G.D.P.

The budget of the National Institutes of Health is less than 1percentt of total federal outlays.