Mr. Obama called on lawmakers to grant him broad new powers to propose mergers of agencies, which Congress would then have to approve or reject in an up-or-down vote.
For Congress to declare independence, a majority of delegations would need authorization to vote for independence, and at least one colonial government would need to specifically instruct (or grant permission for) its delegation to propose a declaration of independence in Congress.
Grants are usually given to proposed ideas and not ideas that have already been started.
The University further refused to provide the necessary support for submission of a proposed grant to the National Council on the Humanities to develop a national core curriculum based on our work.
Conversely, the most expensive part of many grant applications that propose to run clinical trials is the exploratory analysis with the latest crop of non-validated biomarkers.
Then on Oct. 6, one week after the state's most recent rejection, the United States Education Department announced that it had approved a $600,000 grant to finance Ms. Akman's proposed charter.
The president of the State Senate, Richard J. Codey, imposed rules yesterday to prevent senators from adding last-minute grants to towns and organizations to the state budget, and to require senators proposing a grant to disclose whether they have a relationship with the recipient.
In the early '90s, Bartke wrote a grant application proposing to study the giant, growth-hormone-flooded mouse as an example of accelerated aging.
Since May, also as part of health care reform, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced more than 100 multimillion-dollar grants to organizations that proposed new ways to prevent illness and save money.
As part of his "New Federalism" views, he proposed grants to the states, but these proposals were for the most part lost in the congressional budget process.
