Then, last year, funding for the program was cut.
This Administration and others before it have tried to eliminate funding for the program.
B. Madeleine Goldfarb, the director of outreach and education at the Autism Center, helped get funding for the program.
To leverage more funding for the program, states and territories would be required to match the federal funding.
For fiscal 2008, the Bush administration recommended, for the seventh year, that funding for the program remain unchanged.
USAID and the German government's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources provided funding for the program.
Funding for the program – $254.9m for this year – dwarfs that of the Prism program, which operates at a cost of $20m a year, according to previous NSA documents.
Mr. Lazio says he will seek to expand funding for the program, with an eye toward broadening child care subsidies for those getting off welfare.
Ford, as well as General Motors and Chrysler, is hoping that funding for the program can be completed before Congress finishes its abbreviated legislative session this month.
"I've found widespread agreement that body cameras protect police and civilians alike," she said, adding that she would work to prioritise federal funding for the program.
The food stamp program was cut by about $5 billion on Nov. 1 when a provision in the 2009 stimulus bill that added funding for the program expired.
