The federal government could leverage its spending in other ways, too.
The nation's manufacturers, in turn, have enough leverage through spending and hiring to speed up a recovery.
Senators said the stop-gap bill would run through the early part of next year, at which point Republicans will have greater leverage over spending decisions.
Smiles Sinclair, "One way to leverage the spending is to get an ad talked about.
Since some of our competitors are much larger than we are and can leverage their spending to get lower prices, we countered that by consolidating our supply base so that we had bigger [accounts] with a smaller number of suppliers.
In the 1980s, it began to be used as political leverage for spending and deficit reduction deals as congressional Democrats clashed with President Reagan.
Finding success in applying mobile technology to space, he would like to examine other industries, like the automotive world anywhere, as he says, satellites can leverage money spent by other people to solve problems specific to those industries.
Perhaps that is because infrastructure funding, unlike pollution regulation, requires Congressional action - although the politics of leveraging infrastructure spending with public-private partnerships is one of the least polarized issues in this partisan Congress.
The emerging legislation stands in sharp contrast to previous occasions when House Republicans used the leverage of a spending deadline to insist on deep spending cuts in exchange for their votes.
From now on, House leaders said, the chairmen will be selected not by seniority but by J. Dennis Hastert, the House speaker, and Tom DeLay, the majority leader, and their close circle, who are likely to use their new leverage to restrain spending.
