However, the program wasn't renewed in 2012 and there are no plans to continue it because the number of people who ended up using the cards was small, said Richard Gregg, fiscal assistant secretary at Treasury.
Mary Miller, assistant secretary for Financial Markets, and Richard Gregg, Treasury's fiscal assistant secretary, are leading the specialized Treasury team.
In April 1952, Shoup became Assistant Fiscal Director in the Office of the Fiscal Director, Headquarters Marine Corps.
"This gets the federal court involved in a very difficult and delicate question of who's going to pay for this at a time when the state and the city are facing significant fiscal burdens," said an assistant corporation counsel, Jon Pines.
"It's unfortunate that it's coming in this fiscal environment," said Bill Hill, NASA assistant associate administrator for the space shuttle.
Treasury officials "believe S.& P.'s negative outlook underestimates the ability of America's leaders to come together to address the difficult fiscal challenges facing the nation," an assistant secretary for financial markets, Mary J. Miller, said in a statement.
They are deep into the bone and revenues are down about 9percentt from before the recession," said Mike Leachman, assistant director of the state fiscal project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute.
"With the fiscal crunch in the cities now, governments can't help us with our bills," said Truda Jewett, the assistant executive director of the Children's Aid Society.
On Wednesday, in an effort to mollify the moderate wing, Ms. Pelosi named Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, a fiscal conservative with a background in budget and military issues, as her choice for assistant to the leader.
The last three fiscal years have been the busiest on record for the Florida Department of Agriculture staffers who process concealed carry permits, said Ken Wilkinson, assistant division director for licensing.
