In September of last year, Biden and Hargitay helped announce $79m in funding to process rape kits, and $35m the year before that.
A spokesman said the agency has not received a corresponding increase in funding to process the claims.
He alleges the diversion over 14 years of $750 million violates a provision in the U.S. Constitution authorizing Congress to set up a patent system "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts" because it leaves insufficient funds to efficiently process patent applications, lengthening the approval time.
The blood samples assayed for mercury were stored for 18 19 years before funding was available to process them, and methods to process the clotted blood samples had to be developed de novo in the CDC laboratories.
"There was some chatter about putting trades through at 9 p.m.," Ms. Harrington said yesterday, recalling that within months of joining Stern Asset Management, a division of the Hartz Group, in 2001, she concluded that Mr. Stern's hedge fund, Canary Capital, was able to process its fund purchases based on prices posted hours earlier.
Congress, however, has made the process more burdensome by blocking funding for the Justice Department to process applications.
Since Republicans took over the House of Representative in 2011, Congress and the White House have been arguing over how to adequately fund the staff necessary to process travelers and commercial shipments through U.S. ports of entry.
It also host the Ellie Mae Network, a proprietary electronic platform that allows encompass users to conduct electronic business transactions with the investors and settlement service providers to process and fund loans.
"Unfortunately, we simply don't have either the food or the funds to collect, process and equitably distribute enough food to meet the needs of our community," said Kaupp.
The RBS Litigation Group (RGL) said it had "raised funds to begin the process of building legal claims against RBS".
