The study is in large part a review and reanalysis of the existing work in this area, and focuses on the inflexibility of existing treaties, many of which allocate water among the nations on a river's banks but few — if any — of which account for the possibility of a river's flow diminishing over all or at crucial times of year.
Either way it's going to be a land bonanza in cities, some of which allocate 1/4 or more of their land to parking.
One of the few bipartisan pieces of legislation to emerge in recent years was the Global Food Security Act of 2016, which allocated over $7 billion to improve agriculture and nutrition in developing countries.
The U.S. Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which allocated $1.7 billion to the War on Drugs and established a series of "mandatory minimum" prison sentences for various drug offenses.
The latest green-hued legislation: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which allocated almost $100 billion to energy research, related tax credits and infrastructure spending to create thousands of clean-energy jobs and breakthroughs in alternative forms of power generation.
On domestic issues, then Senator Obama voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which allocated $700 billion to bailout the banking system.
Tierney and Rep. Hilda Solis coauthored the Green Jobs Act of 2007, which allocated $125 million to green jobs training.
Mr. Hawkins was one of the major beneficiaries of the plan, which allocated $100 million to recruit and retain minority franchisees and suppliers.
The grants at risk include those issued by the office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), an arm of the Department of Justice, which allocated $214 million last year across five areas: hiring, community policing, tribal assistance, an anti-heroin task force, and an anti-methamphetamine program.
Infrastructure improvement, particularly in high-speed rail, has also been a priority of the Obama administration, which allocated $8 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package to the cause of six possible high-speed corridors around the nation.
