For that reason, proponents are careful to couch it in state, not federal, terms.
But there is more involved, in federal budget terms, than petty cash.Despite a caustic tongue and one or two slip-ups, Mr Rühe has done well (uncomfortably so, his rivals reckon) in a ministry that has often proved an ejector seat for its bosses.
In federal tax terms, it's a "pass-through" entity, meaning it doesn't pay federal corporate-income taxes at all.
Just as it was for Julia Gillard and Labor in the last federal term, the 1990s was a fraught time for the state Liberals as the new premier John Fahey negotiated the hung parliament.
A former Nassau County jail guard who pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in the 1999 beating death of an unarmed inmate was resentenced yesterday to 27 years in federal prison, a term more than double his original sentence, which he had appealed.
Arizona's employer law was carefully tailored to conform to specific, narrow terms in federal immigration law, and it was never suspended by any federal court.
Correction: July 22, 2004, Thursday An article on July 11 about the return of a Hare Krishna leader, Kirtananda Swami Bhaktipada, to his ministry in New York City, after several years in federal prison, misstated the terms of his 1996 guilty plea.
The four officers directly involved in the shooting were sentenced in federal court to lengthy terms ranging from 38 to 65 years, while a police sergeant who was charged with investigating the shooting, and instead helped lead the efforts to hide and distort what happened, was sentenced to six years.
Several events associated with #GamerGate are likely felonious, potentially punishable by long prison terms in federal penitentiaries.
