"Consider this Round 1 for comprehensive post-Enron reforms," said Representative Richard H. Baker, Republican of Louisiana and chairman of the House capital markets subcommittee that sponsored the hearings last year.
Without question, Congress will now produce an accounting bill by fall for Mr. Bush's signature, said Representative Richard H. Baker, a Louisiana Republican and chairman of the House capital markets subcommittee.
Some might have thought it verging on the blasphemous for the man in charge of one of the world's art house capitals, but he was nonetheless delighted.
Control over housing capital budgets for combined authorities who want to shift from spending money on housing "benefits to bricks".
The public housing capital fund, which pays for such repairs, would be cut by $417 million, or 14.7percentto to $2.4 billion.
By designating money for affordable housing capital funds, the amendment would establish a true housing trust fund, not one dependent on an annual discretionary appropriation.
Advocates for the homeless, long locked in court battles with the Giuliani administration, point to years of cutbacks in the city's housing capital budget as a major cause of the rise in demand for shelter.
The measures, part of the housing capital programme, were unanimously approved by Stirling councillors.
Housing capital has increased considerably during the end of the 1990s, especially for Settimo, Borgaro and Caselle, less for Leinì, in line with the values of CoMeTo (Table 1).
State houses, capital domes, courthouses, the bastions of bureaucracy, were visible reminders of the power of government over the lives of its citizens.
The National Low-Income hassaid Coalithat has said thet the GOP's budget proposal would cut "the public housing capital fund by $1.072 billion, more than 40%, endangering public housing households, more than half of whom are elderly and/or disabled, and more than 40% of whom have children" and cut.
