The Title X federal grant program, enacted by President Richard Nixon in 1970, subsidizes preventive health care and family planning services for 4 million low-income Americans, roughly half of whom are uninsured.
I've proposed ways to fund MAP grants by enacting procurement reform.
Cooney argued that the tax was a violation of the Commerce Clause, in that Congress divested the tribes of that authority when they enacted granting the states the right to impose a severance tax on reservation lands.
In 1442, after an ecclesiastical court (which included King Henry VI of England, Henry Beaufort and John Kemp) found Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, guilty of witchcraft and banished her to the Isle of Man, a statute was enacted granting peeresses the right of trial by peers.
But in the end, as the legislation was enacted, the grant program specified that the money be controlled by New York State.
The answers may determine whether Mr. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who told the police that he had pulled the trigger in self-defense, will be protected by Florida's version of the Stand Your Ground laws that states across the country have enacted to grant broad rights to people who use deadly force to defend themselves.
Even if a block grant plan isn't enacted, states will continue to look for ways to cut Medicaid, Kafka said.
In New York, King enacted a grant program that will use $25 million to encourage more affluent students to attend certain high-poverty, struggling schools.
California recently enacted laws granting in-state tuition and driver's licenses to unauthorized immigrants, and limiting its participation in federal deportation efforts.
Seventeen states enacted laws granting inmates access to post-conviction DNA testing, while five states banned the execution of mentally retarded inmates.
